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

Crypto Exchange Bit2Me Raises $15M to Grow in Spain and Latin America

The investment round included Telefónica Ventures, the investment arm of Spain’s largest telecommunications company Telefónica.

Bit2Me CEO, Leif Ferreira. (Bit2Me)

Tech

Bitcoin Infrastructure Firm Blockstream to Unveil Its Long-Awaited Mining Rig in 3Q of 2024

The company expects to raise more capital to fund its mining business.

Rendered image of Blockstream’s new ASIC Bitcoin miner (Blockstream)

Tech

Canada's Largest University Starts XRP Validator in New Partnership With Ripple

The partnership between the University of Toronto and Ripple is part of the latter's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) in Canada.

Toronto, Canada (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Dominance Surges, Accounting For Nearly Half of The $1T Crypto Market, Amid Altcoin Selloff

Bitcoin's dominance rate neared the 50% mark early Saturday as altcoin crash triggered a flight to safety.

(Getty Images)

Markets

Binance's BNB Token Saw Millions in Sell Orders Right Before SEC Lawsuits

In the first nine hours of June 5, BNB’s open interest increased nearly $30 million.

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Robinhood Ends Support for All Tokens Named in SEC Lawsuit as Securities

The trading platform will end support for Cardano (ADA), Polygon (MATIC) and Solana (SOL) on June 27th.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Web3

Health and Fitness App Sweat Economy to Vote on 'Reallocating' 2.5B Inactive Tokens

The 2.5 billion “abandoned” SWEAT tokens, which constitute around 13% of the total supply, were allocated to users at the app's conception last September.

STEPN rewards runners and walkers with crypto. (Raúl González/Flickr)

Tech

Swift and Chainlink Will Test Connecting Over a Dozen Financial Institutions to Blockchain Networks

In a new set of experiments, Swift will collaborate with major financial market institutions like the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ), BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Euroclear and Lloyds Banking Group.

Sergey Nazarov (left) and Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé (Chainlink Labs)

Finance

Binance SEC Lawsuit Could be Preview of What Coinbase May Face, Berenberg Says

At least 37% of Coinbase's net revenue could be at risk if that exchange is subject to charges from the SEC, said one analyst.

CEO de Coinbase, Brian Armstrong. (Captura de pantalla de CoinDesk con la autorización de Coinbase)

Markets

Binance Withdrawal On Track to be Largest Since March Crypto Banking Crisis

Blockchain data shows that the exchange endured some $503 million in net outflows on Monday amid SEC charges.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)