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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Finance

Decentralized AI Opportunity Is 'Bigger than Bitcoin,' Says DCG's Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert thinks deAI is a generational opportunity. DCG's betting on it.

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Finance

Billionaire Winklevoss Twins-Backed Crypto Exchange Gemini Looking to Go Public: Bloomberg

The exchange looking at IPO listing as soon as this year, the report said.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Finance

DEX Aggregator 1inch Integrates ZKsync to Boost Cross-Chain Swaps

The integration aims to provide faster and cheaper transactions for users.

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Markets

Gold-Backed Cryptocurrencies Surge as Precious Metal Hits Record Amid Trade War Worry

The precious metal has rallied nearly 10% so far this year while most top cryptocurrencies struggled to stay in the green.

Gold bar (Scottsdale mint/Unsplash)

Finance

Sol Strategies Bolsters Solana Holdings to Near 190,000 SOL Worth More Than $40M

The Canadian investment company, led by former Valkyrie Investments co-founder Leah Wald, has also acquired validators on other blockchains and holds some BTC.

Solana logo on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Saturday, July 31, 2021. The Senate's bipartisan infrastructure deal envisions imposing stricter rules on cryptocurrency investors to collect more taxes to fund a portion of the $550 billion investment into transportation and power systems. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Markets

Ether Worth Nearly $1B Left Exchanges Monday as Trade War Fears Sent Prices Crashing

Data shows investors likely bought the dip, snapping up ETH at lower prices.

Ether bears have an upper hand following the trendline break (Shutterstock)

Markets

Berachain to Roll Out Its Mainnet This Week

The blockchain is humorously set to launch in "Q5,” a non-existent quarter beyond Q4.

Markets are forming a bottom according to Tom Lee (Shutterstock)

Markets

Semler Scientific Buys Additional 871 BTC for $88.5M

Semler Scientific now holds a total of 3,192 BTC

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Markets

Solana Saw 112% Surge in Stablecoin Supply in January With TRUMP Memecoin Frenzy: CCData

This coincided with the launch of Donald Trump's memecoin $TRUMP which caused a wave of inflows to the network

A Solana booth at ethDenver (Danny Nelson)

Tech

UBS Tests ZKSync's Layer-2 Tech, Showing Deeper TradFi Interest in Crypto

The Swiss banking giant, which has been experimenting with blockchain, tapped the layer-2 firm to test whether it could scale its current Key4 Gold program.

UBS Bank (Wikipedia)