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

Singapore's DBS Bank Starts New Suite of Tokenized Banking Services for Institutional Clients

The Singaporean banking giant wants to help clients optimize liquidity management and streamline operational workflows.

Night view of Singapore from the habor. (Larry Teo/Unsplash)

Finance

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orbs Can Now be Summoned 'Like a Pizza', Say Worldcoin Execs

The project will now be know simply as "World" and plans to release "Orb 2.0," the executives said during a media event.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Grayscale Looks to Turn Multi-Token Fund Into ETF

The fund tracks the CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index which measures the market cap-weighted performance of bitcoin, ether, solana, XRP, and avalanche.

Grayscale ad (Grayscale)

Finance

Ex-Valkyrie Founder’s Canary Capital Group Files for First Litecoin ETF

The filing comes seven days after the one-month-old firm submitted paperwork for an XRP ETF.

Canary Capital Group, a new digital asset-focused investment firm, has plans to launch an exchange-traded fund tied to Litecoin. (Litecoin Foundation)

Policy

SEC Sues Crypto Market Maker Cumberland DRW

The regulator alleged the company "bought and sold" crypto assets that were sold as securities, but did not register as a securities dealer.

SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Policy

Ripple Plans 'Cross-Appeal' in SEC Case

The SEC announced it was filing an appeal last week.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Kevin Dietsch/Getty and Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Dips Below $61K, Ether Slips 3% as Some PlusToken China Ponzi-Related Coins Moved to Exchanges

One observer noted 7,000 PlusToken-related ETH transferred to crypto exchanges on Wednesday, raising concerns about potential selling pressure.

Bitcoin price on 10 09 (CoinDesk)

Finance

VanEck to Invest in Early Stage Ventures Including Crypto With New $30M Fund

The fund, called VanEck Ventures, will invest in companies in the fintech, digital asset or artificial intelligence space that are in pre-seed and seed stages.

VanEck is expanding its venture capital presence with the launch of a new $30 million fund. (Unplash/Matias Malka)

Markets

Bitcoin Wavers at $62K Amid Major Swings in Stocks, Gold; Memecoins Falter as Profit-Taking Sets In

Traditional risk assets like stocks surged while gold and oil tumbled, but cryptos didn't get the memo.

Risks of a deeper pullback are growing for BTC (mana5280/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners at a Crossroads: Gain Market Share or Go All-In on AI?

Investors rewarded mining companies that've diversified into AI and high-performance computing.

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia. (BitCluster)