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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Kebijakan

US Treasury sanctions over 100 ISIS-K crypto addresses that moved over $1.4 million

ISIS-K allegedly used its media wing to solicit donations via Tron, Monero, and Bitcoin, highlighting stablecoin issuers' growing role in sanctions enforcement.

People holding black flag (mhrezaa/Unsplash)

Keuangan

SBI Crypto to shut down mining pool that holds roughly 2% of Bitcoin's hashrate

Miners must redirect their hashrate before the July 31 cutoff, as the pool will stop accepting contributions after that date.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Kebijakan

Goliath Ventures CEO pleads guilty in $400 million crypto Ponzi case

Christopher Delgado allegedly used investor funds for a lavish lifestyle, including luxury properties and vehicles, while running a fraudulent scheme from 2023 to 2026.

Statue of Lady liberty (Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Keuangan

French banking giant Crédit Agricole rolls out euro stablecoin, EURXT

EURXT debuted with 20 million tokens in circulation, backed 1:1 by euro reserves at Caceis Bank, and competes with Circle's EURC and SocGen's EURCV.

Man walking into Credit Agricole branch

Web3

Mysterious Solana project World unveiled as fully onchain prediction market

The platform is now live within the Phantom wallet and at world.xyz, utilizing Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure for market data.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Teknologi

Live markets: bitcoin bounces to $60,000 after Warsh comments, economic data

Record ETF outflows in June beat the previous worst month by 29% and came on nine consecutive days of redemptions to close the period.

Price bounce (Getty Images)