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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

NFT Mania Is Back? Maybe Not, but a CryptoPunk Just Exchanged Hands for a Record $56.3M

Punk 1563 changed hands for 24,000 ETH, a huge markup versus recent pricing.

Oct 3, 2024

CryptoPunk 1563 just sold for a record $56.3 million. (CryptoPunks)

Markets

Binance's Crypto Market Share Sinks to 4-Year Low

While Binance remains a giant in crypto trading, its volumes dropped over 20% in September versus the previous month, while rival Crypto.com's surged over 40%.

Oct 3, 2024

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Not a Safe Haven From Geopolitical Risks, but Still Buy the Dip: Standard Chartered

Risks stemming from the Middle East conflict are likely to push bitcoin below $60K before the weekend, the report said.

Oct 3, 2024

Standard Chartered. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Fan Tokens Have Much Larger Market Than NFTs, Says Chiliz CEO as Blockchain Prepares New Memecoin 'Pepper'

Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus called out the disproportionate hype around NFTs in comparison to fan tokens in an interview with CoinDesk.

Oct 2, 2024

16:9 Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus in Singapore during Token2049 (Courtesy: Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance Founder Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao Is a Free Man

Zhao, who has been in a halfway house since late August, was released on Friday.

Sep 27, 2024

Binance's CZ (Twitter/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

PayPal Enables U.S. Business Accounts to Buy, Hold and Sell Crypto

The service won't be available to New York state businesses in the beginning.

Sep 25, 2024

A large PayPal logo is on display outside its corporate HQ (Shutterstock)

Policy

Former Government Employees, Compliance Officers Rally for Detained Binance Executive

Tigran Gambaryan has been detained in Nigeria since February.

Sep 25, 2024

A group of former prosecutors and government employees rallied in front of the United Nations in support of Tigran Gambaryan, who's been detained in Nigeria since February. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Visa to Help Banks Issue Fiat-Backed Tokens on Ethereum Via New Tokenized Asset Platform

Visa's new Platform will enable the development of fiat-backed tokens powered by smart contracts.

Sep 25, 2024

visa, credit cards

Policy

Turkey Shelves Additional Plans to Tax Stocks and Crypto: Bloomberg

"We don’t have a stocks tax on our agenda," Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz told Bloomberg, including the country's plans that also affect crypto.

Sep 24, 2024

(Getty Images)

Policy

'We are Running Out of Time': U.S. House Democrat Urges Stablecoin Bill Compromise

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, pitched a "grand bargain" to finish a stablecoin bill this year.

Sep 24, 2024

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler took vigorous Republican criticism on his agency's crypto record at a hearing. (screen capture, House Financial Services Committee)
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