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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Markets

Bitcoin Suddenly Plummets 7% After Hitting $64K, Triggering Over $700M Crypto Liquidations

The world's largest crypto soared to $64,000 Wednesday before quickly reversing to $59,000, CoinDesk data shows.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk)

Finance

VanEck Starts Digital Asset Management Platform and NFT Marketplace

The platform, called SegMint, aims to streamline the sharing of access and ownership of self-custodied assets.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon's Shares Outperform Peers Ahead of Possible 'Strong' Earnings Report

The miner is expected to report a "strong acceleration in Q/Q revenue growth" due to the rally in bitcoin prices, a Jefferies analyst said.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Stocks Rise as Bitcoin Plows Through $59K for First Time Since 2021

Gains among exchange-traded funds were led by BlackRock's IBIT.

Charts indicating a price surge. (Unsplash)

Markets

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits Record Volume of Over $1.3B for Second Consecutive Day

Spot bitcoin ETFs again booked a strong day, recording over $2 billion in daily trading volume but slightly fell short of Monday's record.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Tops Bitcoin as the Largest Crypto Asset for Institutions: Bybit Research

Ether is now the largest single asset held by institutions, with Bybit speculating that this may be because of a potential upward swing from the Dencun upgrade

Bull and Bear (nosheep/Pixabay)

Finance

Ether's Bitcoin Beating Rally Not Just Because of Potential ETF Approval: Bernstein

The amount of ether held on exchanges is at an all-time low of 11%, a sign that more of the cryptocurrency is being locked up for DeFi, the report said.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Miner Marathon to Start 'Slipstream' to Make Complex BTC Transactions Faster

Marathon will be the first publicly traded miner to offer such a service by utilizing its own mining pool.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Retail Investors Were Likely Behind The Crypto Market Rally in February, JPMorgan Says

Increased retail activity comes ahead of the three main catalysts in the coming months: the bitcoin halving, the Dencun upgrade of the Ethereum blockchain and the potential approval of spot ether ETFs, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

S&P Global Just Made Ethereum's Centralization Risk a TradFi Concern

Institutional interest in digital assets means that crypto terms such as 'Nakamoto Coefficient' are now mainstream issues.

Ethereum (Unsplash)