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

London Stock Exchange Will Start Market for Bitcoin and Ether ETNs May 28

The stock exchange will accept applications for trading bitcoin and ether crypto exchange traded notes from April 8.

(spatuletail/Shutterstock/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Goldman Seeing 'Resurgence of Interest' for Crypto Options From Hedge Fund Clients: Bloomberg

The approval of spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. in January led to a pickup in interest from Goldman's existing clients, the report says.

Goldman Sachs logo (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

CommEX, Owner of Binance's Former Russian Ops, to Close Down

Crypto exchange Binance sold the entirety of its Russian business to CommEX in September last year following compliance concerns.

Russian flag (Egor Filin/ Unsplash)

Finance

Cathie Wood Calls Bitcoin a ‘Financial Super Highway,’ Reiterates $1.5M Price Target

The Ark Invest CEO said the firm has been looking closely at emerging markets, where use cases of the digital asset make her believe that bitcoin is partly a risk-off asset.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Finance

BlackRock Seeing Only 'A Little Bit' of Demand for Ethereum from Clients, Head of Digital Assets Says

Robert Mitchnick, the asset manager's head of digital assets, said that there's a misconception that BlackRock will have a "long tail" of other crypto services.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Slips to $65K Amid Stronger Dollar, But Analyst Says the 'Pullback Is Over'

Bitcoin could consolidate first before reclaiming the $69,000 level to reignite its uptrend, one trader noted.

Bitcoin price on March 21 (CoinDesk)

Markets

BlackRock Enters Asset Tokenization Race With New Fund on the Ethereum Network

The asset management giant also made a strategic investment in asset tokenization company Securitize.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Finance

Ethereum Foundation Faces Inquiry From a Government; Fortune Says SEC Investigating ETH

After the publication of this article, Fortune reported the SEC seeks to classify ETH as a security.

(TechCrunch/Wikimeda Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Web3

Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund

Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infrastructure firms.

(Jose Gil/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Rebounds to $65K as Investors Weigh Looming Fed Decision Risk

Disappointing flows into bitcoin ETFs over the past days partly resulted from investors trimming risks ahead of Wednesday's FOMC meeting, one market observer said.

Fed Chair Jay Powell is set to speak after the central bank held policy steady (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)