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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Markets

Curve founder pitches market-based fix for $700K bad debt in contrast to Aave bailout

The plan allows trapped lenders to sell tokenized claims on deposits, offering buyers an option-like bet on CRV's recovery.

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Markets

Global interest rates, Robinhood, Galaxy earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

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

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Policy

More than 100 crypto firms urge Senate to move on U.S. market structure bill

Key priorities include defining clear SEC and CFTC oversight roles, protecting non-custodial developers, simplifying disclosure rules, and avoiding a patchwork of state laws.

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Crypto Long & Short: Protecting the people building DeFi infrastructure

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jennifer Rosenthal writes on the need to protect the people actually building DeFi infrastructure. Then, Alexis Sirkia comments on how Ethereum's L2 strategy is failing due to a fundamental design flaw.

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Policy

The London P2P sweep: UK FCA raids eight illegal peer-to-peer trading hubs

The sites were targeted for facilitating P2P trading without required registration or anti-money laundering controls, posing a financial crime risk.

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Kraken filed 56 million crypto tax forms for 2025. One-third were below $1

The lack of a de minimis exemption for crypto payments and staking rewards taxed at receipt creates a huge reporting burden, the data shows.

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