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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Policy

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.

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Finance

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)


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Tech

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.

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Policy

SEC wins $5.5 million default judgment over alleged fake crypto platform NanoBit

The group built trust via WhatsApp, then misappropriated user funds to Hong Kong bank accounts instead of executing any actual crypto trades.

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Tech

Live updates: bitcoin closes out weak quarter; Trump reports over $1 billion in crypto proceeds

IBIT alone shed $300 million while smaller funds absorbed some of the outflow. The selloff lands as the same AI trade that crashed Korea a week ago now powers a record quarterly rally there.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at Mar-a-Lago.

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Finance

Ukraine transfers $8.3 million in seized crypto amid potential plans for strategic reserve

The funds were seized during an investigation into an international hacker group accused of laundering proceeds from data theft through high-value property.

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