Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech. Prior to that, he spent several years on the sellside, financing small-cap companies. Aoyon graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Finance

Cash Is Still King, Consumers Would Prefer to Use Money Over CBDCs: Deutsche Bank

44% of respondents in the bank's survey said they would rather use cash then a central bank digital currency and 57% said they would prefer to use a debit or credit card than a CBDC.

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Finance

DePIN Tech Shows Promise, But Implementation Faces Several Hurdles, Moody's Says

The Wall Street ratings agency's first-ever report about the sector underscores the increased attention towards DePIN apps.

Digital Planet Earth and Global Network (World Map Credit to NASA / Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images)

Finance

Another Bitcoin Miner Adopts MicroStrategy's Playbook of Buying BTC in Open Market

Cathedra Bitcoin will move away from mining business and will develop data centers instead.

Exit sign (Paul Brennan/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining Profitability Remains at All-Time Lows as Prices Fall, Hashrate Rises, JPMorgan Says

U.S.-listed bitcoin miners fell in the first half of the month as the world's largest cryptocurrency loitered below $60K and the network hashrate returned to pre-halving levels, the report said.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

Finance

Stablecoin Giant Circle Is Moving Its Headquarters to New York City

The USDC issuer will move into One World Trade Center, and New York Mayor Eric Adams – who has sought to make the city a crypto hub – will attend the Friday ribbon cutting.

Circle plans to move into One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the picture. (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

Finance

WeWork Founder's Climate Firm Refunds Crypto Token Holders After Failed Launch: Forbes

Flowcarbon, which raised $70 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, aims to tokenize carbon credits, but the token never launched.

The climate venture from WeWork's Adam Neumann didn't pan out. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for WeWork)

Finance

Solo Bitcoin Miner Wins Big After Securing an Entire Block Reward

The emergence of new mining rigs may have created an opportune environment for solo miners, according to CryptoQuant.

ASIC Miners (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Markets

Coinbase, Robinhood Upgraded by Barclays Analyst, Citing 'Matured' Business Models

Both stocks opened the day higher after the British bank published its upgrade overnight.

Barclays has upgraded both Coinbase and Robinhood to equal weight from underweight, citing better business models. (Pcruciatti/Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto Market to Stay Highly Correlated to Stocks Amid Macro Events and Dwindling Network Activities, Citi Says

The network activity has also been falling on Ethereum and stalling on the Bitcoin blockchain, the report said.

Crypto market to stay highly correlated to stocks, Citi says. (Miquel Parera/Unsplash)

Finance

Siemens Issues $330M Digital Bond on Private Blockchain with Major German Banks Including Deutsche Bank

The issuance was the company's first digital bond with fully automated settlement, building on last year's issuance on the Polygon network.

(Hiroshi Higuchi/Getty Images)