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Aoyon Ashraf

Managing Editor, Breaking News

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

Binance Research Survey Shows 95% of Latin American Crypto Users Plan to Buy More in 2025

The survey found that investors entered the cryptocurrency space looking for significant returns and financial freedom.

Feb 22, 2025

Binance investor on ipad with keyboard (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Markets

Ether Price Spikes Further on Reports of Bybit Starting to Buy ETH

The rise comes amid reports that Bybit has allocated 100 million USDT to a new wallet to buy the cryptocurrency.

Feb 22, 2025

Bybit logo

Markets

SEC Drops OpenSea Investigation Easing Pressure on NFT Market

The regulator’s decision comes after Coinbase said the SEC will vote on a deal to abandon its enforcement case against it.

Feb 22, 2025

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)

Markets

Arthur Hayes Floats the Idea of Rolling Back Ethereum Network to Negate $1.4B Bybit Hack, Drawing Community Ire

"I would support it because we already voted no on immutability in 2016," Hayes said on X, while Ethereum community strongly criticized it.

Feb 22, 2025

Arthur Hayes, CIO, Maelstrom, pictured at CfC St. Moritz 2025 (CfC St. Moritz)

Markets

North Korean Hackers Were Behind Crypto's Largest 'Theft of All Time'

Lazarus Group was behind Bybit's $1.5 billion hack on Friday, Arkham Intelligence said, citing ZackXBT.

Feb 21, 2025

(Pixabay)

Finance

CZ Suggests Bybit Halt Withdrawals, Offers Help With $1.5B Hack

Bybit CEO has said that the exchange is solvent and withdrawals remain open.

Feb 21, 2025

Binance's former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Photos from Smorshedi/Wikimedia Commons and CoinDesk/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Senators Push for SEC to Rethink Crypto Staking in Exchange Funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission blocked staking when crypto exchange-traded funds were granted, but the lawmakers suggest the SEC may have been off-base.

Feb 21, 2025

Senator Cynthia Lummis (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Slump as Crypto Prices Dip on Report of Massive $1.5B Bybit Hack

The move happened as crypto exchange Bybit saw a sudden $1.5 billion worth of ETH outflow.

Feb 21, 2025

Bitcoin continued its downtrend of recent days. (Getty Images)

Finance

Bybit Loses $1.5B in Hack but Can Cover Loss, CEO Confirms

A portion of staked ether is currently being liquidated on decentralized exchanges.

Feb 21, 2025

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou (Danny Nelson/ CoinDesk)

Markets

SEC Dropping Coinbase Case Could Boost Robinhood Stock, Tokens Alleged as Securities

More tokens could be added to exchanges, increasing their trading revenue. This might also open the floodgates to crypto firms' IPOs in the U.S.

Feb 21, 2025

Robinhood shares could benefit from SEC dropping Coinbase case. (Shutterstock)
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