Aoyon Ashraf

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

Near Protocol's Token Almost Doubles in a Week, Ahead of Nvidia's AI Conference

Near Protocol will be only few crypto-related firm that will be presenting at Nvidia's conference next week.

NEAR rises ahead of Nvidia conference (Gerard Siderius/Unsplash)

Policy

Appeals Court Revives Aspiring Class Action Lawsuit Against Binance

The ruling doesn't have any implications on whether certain crypto tokens are securities.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Finance

DCG's Barry Silbert Pitched Genesis-Gemini Merger in a Drastic Bid to Save the Lender in 2022

Silbert’s motion to dismiss the New York Attorney General’s $3 billion lawsuit contains emails from around the time 3AC failed and the Genesis and Gemini loans business began to seize up.

DCG CEO Barry Silbert (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Crypto Investment Scam Losses in U.S. Grew 53% to $3.94B in 2023: FBI

Overall, investment fraud grew by 38% to $4.57 billion from $3.31 billion, according to the bureau's Internet Crime Report 2023, with crypto being the largest type of scam.

(David Trinks/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Ordinals Wallet Oyl Raises $3M With Arthur Hayes, BRC-20 Creator Domo Among Investors

Multiple Ethereum NFT funds were also among the backers, marking their first investment in a Bitcoin-focused company

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

Fireblocks Prepares for Bull Market by Adding New Executive After New CFO Hire

Chief marketing officer Michal Ferguson joins from cybersecurity platform Snyk, following the appointment of new CFO Michael Levine, and chief customer officer Madan Gadde.

Fireblocks chief marketing officer Michal Ferguson (Fireblocks)

Markets

MicroStrategy Upsizes Convertible Debt Offering to $700M to Buy Even More Bitcoin

The company's convertible debt offering will have a conversion price at 42.5% premium to last close.

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of MicroStrategy (Michael.com)

Policy

'Congress Needs to Act' on Crypto Regulations, CFTC Chair Behnam Tells Lawmakers

The CFTC Chair was testifying on the regulator's 2025 budget request.

CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam (Suzanne Cordeiro/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Soared to an All-Time High. So Why Aren't Miners Blasting Off, Too?

One explanation: Investors are pouring money into spot ETFs while avoiding miners due to risks related to the Bitcoin halving.

16:9CROP Miners (Library of Congress)

Policy

SEC in ‘Enforcement-Only Mode’ for Crypto, Commissioner Peirce Says at ETHDenver

“What I reflect is the fact that you all are spending part of your brainpower” wondering how to avoid getting sued, she said during a panel at EthDenver.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce  at ETHDenver 2024(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)