Francisco Rodrigues

Francisco is a reporter for CoinDesk with a passion for cryptocurrencies and personal finance. Before joining CoinDesk he worked at major financial and crypto publications. He owns bitcoin, ether, solana, and PAXG above CoinDesk's $1,000 disclosure threshold.

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Finance

Brazil’s largest bitcoin treasury firm plans ETF with 95% allocation to Strategy's STRC

DIGY11 aims for annual distributions matching Brazil’s interbank rate plus 3–5 percentage points, net of costs, though investors' actual returns are not guaranteed.

World stock index tickers on a terminal (Daniel Brzdęk/Unsplash)

Finance

Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg

The firm aims for non-crypto markets to drive over 50% of revenue by 2027, up from 10% currently, as it seeks to diversify its business.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint launches Hong Kong dollar stablecoin

HashKey Exchange and OSL Group are now authorized distributors, enabling institutional and professional investors to mint and redeem HKDAP tokens.

Hong Kong harbor during a sunrise (Manson Yim/Unsplash)

Policy

Russia moves to restrict retail crypto trading to bitcoin, ether and USDT

Non-qualified investors face a 300,000-ruble (approx. $3,600) annual purchase limit per intermediary, while qualified investors have no cap.

The Kremlin in Moscow (Artem Beliaikin/Unsplash)

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Finance

Fidelity moves to add staking, quarterly payouts to near $900 million ether ETF

The fund would keep 85% of gross staking rewards, with the remaining 15% going to service providers.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto-friendly bank Erebor in talks to raise $1.5 billion at $9.5 billion valuation: FT

Total deposits grew from $1.1 billion in March to $4.6 billion by July, driven by clients in crypto, AI and defense.

Piggybank next to coins on the floor

Policy

Australian watchdog suspends Cryptolink, forcing 96 ATMs offline

The regulator cited missing transaction reports and the company’s failure to respond to an information request.

Bitcoin ATM being used (General bytes/Unsplash)

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Finance

Grayscale quietly drops Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF plans

The asset manager said it no longer intends to proceed with the offerings. None became effective, and no securities were issued or sold.

(Grayscale)