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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Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Sells 2% of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Holdings as BTC Rallies

The fund also sold about $3.3 million worth of Coinbase shares (COIN) and bought $2.4 million shares of Robinhood (HOOD).

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Large Crypto Trader's $7M LINK Deposits to Binance Signals Profit-Taking as Token Hits 17-Month High

LINK surged 9% to $11 Monday, posting one of the best monthly returns among large-cap cryptocurrencies with a 43% gain.

LINK price on Oct. 23 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Rally as BTC Holds Above $30K Despite Looming Halving Concerns

The reward for mining new BTC will be cut in half soon, making it hard for less-efficient operators to survive.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Bit Digital Diversifies Into AI for 'Substantially Higher Margin' Than Mining

The firm is looking for a "reliable income stream ... that is uncorrelated to bitcoin prices."

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Finance

Coinbase's Grewal Is 'Quite Hopeful' That Bitcoin Spot ETFs Will be Approved

Grewal said in a CNBC interview that the SEC approvals of the ETF applications could be coming soon.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Drops Charges Against Ripple CEO Garlinghouse, Chairman Larsen

The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it's just pursuing the central Ripple case.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Kevin Dietsch/Getty and Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Tech

Circle to Let Merchants Pay for Customers' Gas Fees With Web3 Wallet Upgrade

Southeast Asian super-app Grab is currently piloting the new product to cover gas fees for its Singaporean users if they use NFT vouchers.

Circle booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon to Custody Some of Its BTC With Fidelity Digital

The miner is adding Fidelity to diversify its bitcoin (BTC) custody.

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Markets

Bitcoin ETF Hopes Push Grayscale's GBTC Discount to Narrowest Since 2021

The fund’s shares have traded for years at a discount to the value of the BTC it owns.

GBTC discount narrows. (TradingView)

Markets

Reddit-Based Tokens Plunge on Report of Wind Down of Community Points

MOON, BRICK and DONUT tokens prices are each lower by 60%-90%.

Reddit has submitted a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.” (Brett Jordan/Unsplash)