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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Finanzas

Crypto Venture Capital Firm Paradigm Looking to Raise Up to $850M for New Fund: Bloomberg

The VC is looking to raise between $750-$850 million, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar.

Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Ethereum Could Face 'Hidden Risks' From Ballooning Restaking Market: Coinbase

Restaking has grown into the second-largest DeFi sector on the Ethereum blockchain and is likely to become a core part of the network’s infrastructure, the report said.

Staking (Shutterstock)

Finanzas

Telegram's Pivot to TON Payments for Ads Boosts Toncoin

The messaging app's switch to TON from Euro creates a circular economy for the closely-linked crypto.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Regulación

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentencing: U.S. Attorney Damian Williams' Statement

"As a result of his unprecedented fraud, Bankman-Fried faces 25 years in prison, forfeiture of over a billion dollars and restitution to his victims."

(Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tecnología

Ethereum's Rising Validator Count Is Causing Concerns, Fidelity Digital Assets Says

Future roadmap upgrades for the network will become more difficult with a large validator set, the report said.

Ethereum's rising validator count is causing technical capacity and centralization concerns, Fidelity Digital Assets says (Koushik Pal/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Crypto Stocks Like MicroStrategy, Coinbase Could Shoot Up if Short Sellers Exit

They are "very squeezable" due to short sellers' large positions, according to a report by data analytics firm S3 Partners.

Heavily shorted crypto stocks like MicroStrategy could be poised to shoot up. (Mediamodifier/Pixabay)

Mercados

Layer-2 Blockchain Mantle’s Token Hits All-Time High as Reward System Goes Live

The rally in the MNT token pushed the market cap of the blockchain to over $4 billion.

Messari

Finanzas

Crypto Exchange KuCoin Violated Anti-Money Laundering Laws, U.S. Charges

The exchange was charged under the Bank Secrecy Act.

16:9 KuCoin (Shutterstock)

Finanzas

A16z-Backed Protocol Unveils U.S. Dollar Stablecoin Passing Yield from RWA and DeFi

Angle also aims to establish a forex hub offering seamless conversion between its dollar and euro-pegged stablecoins.

Guillaume Nervo and Pablo Veyrat, founders of Angle (Angle Labs, modified by CoinDesk)