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

Revolut Weighs $75B Dual Listing in London and New York: Sunday Times

The move could be a vote of confidence for London's financial center, and would make Revolut the first company to simultaneously list in New York and enter the FTSE 100.

A Revolut card (Kay/Unsplash)

Finance

Tether and Circle Are ‘Printing Money’ but Competition Is Coming: Wormhole Co-Founder

Platforms like M^0 and Agora are addressing the issue by allowing stablecoin infrastructure to be built to route yield to applications or directly to end users.

Money on a printer (Clay Banks/Unsplash)

Finance

NYDIG Calls for Bitcoin Treasury Companies to Drop 'Misleading' mNAV Metric

NYDIG argued that mNAV fails to account for operating businesses and uses assumed shares outstanding, which can be inaccurate.

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Markets

Trader Who Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Returns With 3x Leveraged Long on Aster

James Wynn's new trade comes just days after being liquidated on the same token, as he believes ASTER's airdrop will be one of the biggest in crypto history.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

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Finance

Crypto Miner TeraWulf to Raise $3B in Google-Backed Debt Deal to Expand Data Centers

Google already owns 14% of TeraWulf and is supporting other crypto firms like Cipher Mining in their AI expansions.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Finance

Corporate Clients Hold Up to 15% of Assets on Mercado Bitcoin, Exchange Exec Says

These companies are not actively trading, but rather holding onto their bitcoin and stablecoins like USDT and USDC for conservative, cash-management purposes.

Daniel Cunha, Mercado Bitcoin's head of corporate development (Mercado Bitcoin)

Finance

Kraken Raises $500M in Funding Round Valuing Crypto Exchange at $15B: Fortune

The funding round sets the stage for a long-awaited IPO, expected to take place next year.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Market Today: Risk-Off Sentiment Dominates Ahead of U.S. PCE Release

The crypto market is a sea of red, with the CoinDesk 20 Index down 5% in 24 hours and all members lower.

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Markets

BNB Slips Below $1K as Crypto Market Drops, Fear Index Nears ‘Fear’

The decline in BNB comes as sentiment remains poor, with the Crypto Fear and Greed Index nearing "fear" and the average RSI indicating oversold conditions.

BNB chart (CoinDesk Data)