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

Figure Markets Offers SEC-Registered Yield-Bearing Stablecoin as Tokenized Asset Demand Soars

The YLDS stablecoin, backed by prime money market funds, offers daily interest and 24/7 peer-to-peer transfers.

Figure Markets CEO Mike Cagney (Figure)

Finance

Onramp and Arch Launch Bitcoin-Backed Lending Service

The new lending product allows Bitcoin holders to access liquidity without selling their assets.

CoinDesk

Finance

Memecoin Craze Is 'Unquestionably Over' as Crypto Heads Towards Maturation, Nic Carter Says

The memecoin market, once pitched as a "fair launch" opportunity for traders, has been exposed as a rigged game, Carter said.

(Jacob Townsend/Unsplash)

Markets

TradFi Investors Piled $38.7B Into Bitcoin ETFs, Three Times More Than Previous Quarter

Institutional investors bought $38.7 billion worth of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the fourth quarter, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed.


Policy

Private Jets, Political Cash Among $1B in Sam Bankman-Fried's Forfeited Assets: Court

A federal court confirmed the final tally of SBF assets the government staked a claim to, including $606 million in Robinhood stock sales and two private jets.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S.-Sanctioned Countries Such as Iran Leaning Heavily Into Crypto: Chainalysis

A new report from the analytics firm says that sanctioned jurisdictions and groups were responsible for 39% of illicit crypto transactions last year.

Iran

Finance

Will Argentinian President Milei's Crypto 'Fiasco' Be a Deathblow for Memecoin Craze?

"At this point, memecoins are synonymous with 'pump and dump' schemes," says FRNT Financial.

Argentina presidential candidate Javier Milei (Getty images)

Finance

Libra Token’s Co-Creator Claimed He Paid Argentinian President Milei’s Sister

It was unclear if any money was exchanged between Davis and Milei's inner circle in advance of Libra's launch.

Javier and Karina Milei

Finance

Mastercard Says It Has Moved Beyond Experimentation in Crypto, Focused on 'Real Solutions'

“What is stopping [crypto] from going mainstream is really that consumers need to be able to find each other using what they already know,” Mastercard’s head of crypto and blockchain, Raj Dhamodharan told CoinDesk.

Raj Dhamodharan, Head of Crypto and Blockchain, Mastercard (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Staking Platform Core Joins Crypto Lender Maple and Custodians BitGo, Copper, Hex Trust

The ability to earn yield on bitcoin and potentially unleash a new wave of liquidity into the DeFi ecosystem has become a hot topic of late.

Maple Finance's Sid Powell (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)