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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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Finance

VanEck Files for Solana ETF, SOL Rises 8%

The filing is the first Solana ETF to be filed in the U.S. and follows six days after a similar product filing in Canada.

Jun 27, 2024

VanEck

Finance

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.

Jun 27, 2024

Bluefin v2 (Bluefin)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Mined $15M Worth Kaspa Tokens to Diversify Revenue

The miner has mined 93 million of KAS tokens since Sept. 2023.

Jun 26, 2024

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Markets

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.

Jun 26, 2024

Risks of a deeper pullback are growing for BTC (mana5280/Unsplash)

Markets

Blast Token Debuts at $3B Value as 17% of Supply Airdropped to Early Adopters

Blast is the second largest layer 2 network with $1.6 billion in TVL.

Jun 26, 2024

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

Animoca Looks to Go Public in Hong Kong or Middle East in 2025: Report

The prominent Web3 investor has held talks with investment banks, but has yet to decide on an adviser.

Jun 26, 2024

Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands at Consensus 2023 (CoinDesk)

Finance

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.

Jun 25, 2024

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

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.

Jun 24, 2024

robot hand holding dollar bills

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Ditches Bitfarms Takeover Bid, Seeks to Overhaul Board

Riot is Bitfarms' largest shareholder, owning 14.9% of the firm.

Jun 24, 2024

(Arisa Chattasa, Unsplash)

Policy

Mexican Cartels Using BTC, ETH, USDT, Other Tokens to Buy Fentanyl Ingredients: U.S.

The financial-crimes arm of the U.S. Treasury Department has flagged the increased use of several crypto assets to support Mexican drug trafficking

Jun 20, 2024

U.S. authorities have warned about Mexican cartels using crypto to buy precursors to make fentanyl. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
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