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

Stablecoin Supply Growth Isn't Eating Into Crypto Market Share: JPMorgan

The share of stablecoins versus total cryptocurrency market capitalization is relatively unchanged this year, the report said.

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News Analysis

Wall Street Agrees Crypto Is 'Clearly' A Huge Election Issue, But Still Divided on Who Is Best for Industry

“One thing that’s clear is that crypto seems to be at a scale and importance level where it is a real issue in politics nowadays," said Christopher Jensen, head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton.

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Markets

Bitcoin Price May Turn Lower as Crypto Exchanges See $1B USDT Withdrawal: IntoTheBlock

The previous two occasions when exchanges saw similar USDT outflows earlier this year occurred near local tops in bitcoin's price.

Bitcoin price on Aug 14 (CoinDesk)

Finance

MetaMask Starts Rollout of Blockchain-Based Debit Card Developed With Mastercard, Baanx

The new offering will allow MetaMask users to purchase directly from their self-custodial crypto wallet.

MetaMask debit card (MetaMask)

Finance

Crypto Project Essential Raises $11M for 'Declarative, Intent-Based' Blockchain

The investment was led by Archetype and included contributions from IOSG, Spartan, Amber Group and Big Brain Holdings

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

Finance

Asset Manager Grayscale Introduces Crypto Fund for MakerDAO's MKR

The company unveiled similar single-asset trusts for TAO and SUI and a fund that invests in a basket of decentralized artificial intelligence-focused tokens over the past month.

Grayscale ad in NYC (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ripple Begins Testing Its Stablecoin on Ethereum and XRP Ledger

The company said it plans to use both Ripple USD (RLUSD) and XRP for cross-border payments services.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner With Celsius Assets Delays IPO After Losing CEO and Auditor

Ionic Digital's former accountant, RSM, is no longer auditing publicly traded digital asset mining companies.

Exit sign (Paul Brennan/Pixabay)

Finance

JPMorgan Remains Cautious on Bitcoin as Positive Catalysts Mostly Priced-In

Retail investors seems to have played large role in recent crypto selloff that saw sharpest correction since FTX, the bank said.

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Finance

Crypto Asset Manager Algoz Taps Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Custody for Safer Investing

Algoz will use Zodia's Interchange service to offer off-venue settlement and mitigate risks around liquidity and insolvency

(l-r) Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer, Kraken MTF CEO Mark Jennings, Komainu COO Suzanne Hubble (AIM Summit)