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Aoyon Ashraf

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Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Head of Americas. 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 ADA, SOL, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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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.

Mar 22, 2024

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.

Mar 22, 2024

(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.

Mar 21, 2024

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.

Mar 20, 2024

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.

Mar 20, 2024

(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.

Mar 19, 2024

(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.

Mar 19, 2024

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

Consensus Magazine

Bitcoin Halving Is a ‘Show Me the Money’ Moment for Miners

With April’s “halving” set to cut mining rewards by half, Bitcoin miners are upgrading to more efficient mining machines, cutting costs, finding cheaper sources of power and exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities.

Mar 19, 2024

Stronghold's Russelton plant (Aaron Kotowski/Stronghold)

Finance

Luxor Looks to Help Bitcoin Miners Hedge Halving Risk With New Hashrate Futures

The firm partnered with CFTC-approved exchange Bitnomial to offer cash-settled hashrate futures.

Mar 19, 2024

Scott Graham, Unslpash/Modified by CoinDesk

Finance

Crypto Firm Bakkt Shakes Up Leadership, Names Board Member Andy Main New CEO

The current CEO Gavin Michael will step down “to pursue other opportunities.”

Mar 18, 2024

NYSE/Modified by CoinDesk
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