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

Coinbase Shares Surge After It Crushes Wall Street Expectations

The crypto exchange's transaction revenue doubled from previous quarter as crypto markets soared.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin's Rise to $52K Is Driven by Strong U.S. Demand, the Coinbase Price Premium Suggests

Massive inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs made headlines recently, but other metrics showcase U.S. investors' appetite for the asset.

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween Day in 2008. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Telefónica Teams Up With Chainlink to Provide Security Against 'SIM Swap' Hacks

The partnership will be a "significant step" in integrating telecom capabilities into the blockchain technology, the firms said.

Fishing Phishing Sim Card Chip Scam Bait (Andrey Metelev/Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase to Report Strong Earnings, ETF Benefits May Surprise Wall Street, Analysts Say

Coinbase is expected to report strong revenue numbers, given an uptick in crypto trading volume towards the end of 2023.

Coinbase (COIN) reports fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and is expected to post strong numbers as trading volume picked up in the last few months of the year. (Piggybank/Unsplash)

Markets

Citibank Tests Tokenization of Private Equity Funds on Avalanche

The firm tested a variety of use cases through Avalanche's subnet with a focus on private markets.

Citibank logo

Finance

Robinhood's Higher Crypto Revenue Could be Positive for Coinbase Earnings

The shares of the popular trading platform rose 15% after beating earnings and revenue estimates.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Finance

Fordefi Raises $10M to Make Crypto Safer With Institutional-Grade Wallet to Retail-Facing Platforms

The company has onboarded institutional investors such as Pantera Capital, DeFiance Capital, Keyrock and Flare Network to its MPC wallet, and secured over $3 billion in blockchain transaction volume.

Founders of Fordefi (clockwise): Michael Volfman, Dima Kogan and Josh Schwartz (Fordefi)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Joins Ethereum ETF Race

The asset manager is also one of the issuers of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund but hasn’t seen the same success as frontrunners BlackRock and Fidelity.

Franklin Templeton has joined the race to launch an ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF). (Franklin Templeton via X)

Finance

FTX to Sell Custody Unit for $500K After Paying $10M Just Months Before Collapse

The bankrupt exchange's unit, Digital Custody Inc., which FTX bought for $10 million, sold for just $500k to CoinList.

Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court on February 16, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

Policy

New York Expands Fraud Case Against Digital Currency Group to $3 Billion

An initial lawsuit accusing crypto firm DCG of cheating people out of $1 billion has been amplified by investors coming forward with losses tripling that, the NY attorney general said.

Barry Silbert. CEO & Founder Digital Currency Group (DCG)