Aoyon Ashraf

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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Ionic's CEO Matt Prusak (Ionic Digital)
Bitcoin Miner Ionic Digital Hires CFO to Shepherd IPO
The company, which bought all of bankrupt lender Celsius' mining assets, said new CFO John Penver has over 18 years of data center technology and infrastructure experience.
Ionic's CEO Matt Prusak (Ionic Digital)
16:9 Wallet (Prasanta Sahoo/PIxabay)
Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Aims to Solve Web3's User-Friendly Issue With 'Passkeys Wallet'
The new wallet is able to bypass the need for seed phrases, browser extensions or email verifications to use decentralized apps.
16:9 Wallet (Prasanta Sahoo/PIxabay)
Former Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald to take the reins of Cypherpunk (Cypherpunk)
Ex-Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald to Take Reins of Crypto Investment Firm Cypherpunk
Cypherpunk recently bought SOL tokens and has investment in Animoca Brands.
Former Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald to take the reins of Cypherpunk (Cypherpunk)
Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)
Private Equity Giants Are Circling Bitcoin Miners on AI Allure
Private equity firms are seeing value in partnering with bitcoin miners to help with AI computing after Core Scientific signed a 200MW deal with CoreWeave in June, the company...
Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)
Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark to Buy Peer GRIID in $155M Deal
The acquisition will be all-stock based and has been approved by the boards of both companies.
Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)
Bluefin v2 (Bluefin)
Decentralized Exchange Bluefin to Roll Out Token After Securing $17M in Total Funding
The exchange says it has already seen more than $25 billion in trading volume since the start of the year, with monthly revenues topping $1 million.
Bluefin v2 (Bluefin)
Marathon Digital Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Miner Marathon Mined $15M Worth Kaspa Tokens to Diversify Revenue
The miner has mined 93 million of KAS tokens since Sept. 2023.
Marathon Digital Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)
Bitcoin slips on government sale fear (mana5280/Unsplash)
Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase
About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.
Bitcoin slips on government sale fear (mana5280/Unsplash)
Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
Solana-Focused Startup Accelerator Colosseum Raises $60M to Invest in Early-Stage Projects
Colosseum will focus on investing in selected teams from winners in Solana hackathons and so far deployed $2.75 million to eleven companies.
Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
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Hut 8 Receives $150M Investment as Thirst for Energy Brings AI Firms to Bitcoin Miners
The funding came from Coatue Management, which is also an investor in CoreWeave, a cloud-computing firm looking to take over miner Core Scientific.
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