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Nikou Asgari

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Financial Times digital markets correspondent | reporting on crypto and capital markets www.ft.com/nikou-asgari

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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Banks, asset managers and exchanges are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on blockchain, this time for real Today's FT Big Read - as.ft.com/r/23bbd917-c...
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Wall Street learns to love blockchain
Financial companies hope to modernise markets with the technology but systemic risks remain
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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New - one of crypto's biggest conferences held its afterparty at a Miami club with pole dancers... at least one of the sponsors is not happy www.ft.com/content/ea06...
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Sponsor reviews crypto conference partnership over pole-dancing party
Crypto exchange OKX reconsiders sponsorship of Consensus Miami after ‘immature’ official after-party event
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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A dissection of CZ's self published memoir for @alphaville.ft.com www.ft.com/content/6cda...
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We read CZ’s ‘memoir’ to protect anyone else from having to
A dull account of an interesting life
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 08/05/2026
Selfless service journalism by @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6cda...
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We read CZ’s ‘memoir’ to protect anyone else from having to
A dull account of an interesting life
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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Very fun talking about Wall Street vs crypto, on the latest episode of the FT's Behind the Money podcast
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump did everything right for the crypto industry. So how come his memecoin is down >90% from peak, and MelaniaCoin (or whatever it's called) has lost 99% asks @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0012...
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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“The whole entire market is mispricing Strategy" I spoke to the bitcoin believers who are keeping the faith in Saylor's company www.ft.com/content/5922...
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Strategy diehards keep faith in company that ‘the market doesn’t understand’
Bitcoin hoarder’s business model has come into question but retail traders still view founder as ‘visionary leader’
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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Today on complicated crypto financing - Tether's secretive chair Giancarlo Devasini and its CEO bought a crypto miner from a data centre company owned by Tether itself. Shares in the data centre co are down 13% after today's FT story www.ft.com/content/352f...
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Tether-owned firm sells crypto miner to companies run by its founder
Stablecoin giant’s Devasini is director of groups that bought Peak Mining from Northern Data
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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Crypto’s rocky year-Explanations for the sell-off — more than $1tn has been erased from the combined capitalisation of about 18,000 digital tokens over the past two months — range from uncertainty… www.ft.com/content/728a... @nikasgari.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Crypto’s rocky year
The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months
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Nikou Asgari @nikasgari.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Kwasi Kwarteng does crypto - the former UK chancellor is helping launch a bitcoin treasury company www.ft.com/content/c5a6...
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Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company
Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 08/08/2025
Welcome to the bitcoin-per-share market. Going to be an interesting ride Big Read by @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8a16...
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Why struggling companies are loading up on bitcoin
Biotechs, miners and hoteliers are snapping up crypto to boost their share prices, but experts warn of a crisis if markets crash
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The grass is not always greener. US listings often fail to boost European companies’ valuations, according to FT analysis from @nikasgari.bsky.social and Patrick Mathurin with nifty data viz. www.ft.com/content/6706...
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US listings often fail to boost European companies’ valuations
FT analysis finds that while liquidity usually improves, adding a New York listing does not always boost multiples or coverage
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 07/03/2025
Our stories often downplay the computational lift that goes into getting them. Suffice it to say "a Financial Times analysis of blockchain data" denotes some really impressive data journalism work from @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social.
A methodology note at the foot of the story linked to in the post, which reads: 

How the FT calculated the $TRUMP earnings

The FT analysed data from the Solana blockchain, following the movement of Trump coin from its creation on January 17 to the end of its first few weeks of trading.

The coin’s initial distribution was primarily managed by four accounts, which set up a “liquidity pool” on Meteora, a decentralised exchange, in order to sell most of that initial distribution.

The FT downloaded the full transaction history of these accounts during this period, as well as the transactions within the liquidity pool. From this we have been able to reconstruct how the coin was traded and at what prices.

The $350mn is a floor estimate. More money would have been made via sales on other platforms. It is not possible to calculate how much was made from transactions that took place off the blockchain.
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