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

Ionic Digital jumps 26% in Nasdaq debut, giving Celsius Network claimholders an exit route

The bitcoin miner reached a market valuation of roughly $2.8 billion based on its 44.9 million shares outstanding.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Policy

Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism

The charges could result in life imprisonment, escalating an investigation that has already led to over 100 million rubles in fines for the platform this year.

Telegram app on a smartphone (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Finance

Core Scientific lands AMD AI deal as bitcoin mining operation winds down

The agreement accelerates Core Scientific’s pivot from bitcoin mining toward AI data centers, following the termination of its ASIC agreement with Block.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Finance

Apple kept fake bitcoin wallet on App Store after $875,000 theft report, lawsuit alleges

A lawsuit alleges Apple kept a fake bitcoin wallet app on its store after one user reported an $875,000 theft, leading to another user having roughly $840,000 stolen.

Apple logo on the side of a building.

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Web3

1inch opens Aqua liquidity protocol across 13 chains

Liquidity providers can keep assets in their own wallets, using one balance to back multiple positions without splitting capital across different pools.

Sea waves. (Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay)

Finance

Circle buys nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM

The portfolio covers blockchain technology, banking, insurance, and cloud security, though the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Circle logo on a screen


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Markets

Interest rates in U.S., U.K., Japan and Coinbase, Strategy earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 27.

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh

Markets

Live updates: Bitcoin gives up early gains, holds near $65,000 as AI stocks skid

CoinEx's Jeff Ko sees bitcoin staying range-bound near $65,000 while retreating oil, a 4.7% 10-year yield and a week of mega-cap earnings set the tone.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Monday, July 27 (CoinDesk)