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

Toncoin Falls Below $2 as Broader Market Conditions Weigh on Price

The selloff was driven by heavy volume and over $1.4 billion in long position liquidations, pushing TON through several support zones.

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Markets

BNB Drops Below $950 as Market Sell-Off Deepens, Privacy Coins Surge

BNB faces technical resistance at $1,000 and $980, with analysts watching to see if it can hold above $940, as privacy coins like DASH and Zcash outperform.

BNB Crashes 7.4% Below $980 Support Amid Institutional Selloff in Crypto Market Rumble

Finance

UBS, Chainlink Execute First Onchain Tokenized Fund Redemption in $100T Market

The transaction involved the tokenized UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (uMINT) on Ethereum, with DigiFT as the onchain distributor.

UBS logo above road (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Toncoin Falls as Nasdaq Flags Rule Violation in $273M Purchase by Major Holder

Nasdaq reprimanded TON Strategy, a major holder of TON, for failing to obtain shareholder approval before issuing stock to finance a $272.7 million purchase.

"TON Price Drops 4.4% to $2.18 Amid Strong Selling and Key Support Breakdown with Late Recovery"

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Markets

BNB Slides 6% as Price Breaks Below Key $1,080 Support Level

The breakdown occurred during a broader crypto market downturn, with BNB's move possibly reflecting spillover effects from the decline.

BNBUSD price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Banco Inter, Chainlink Power Real-Time CBDC Trade Settlement Between Brazil and Hong Kong

The pilot, part of Brazil's Drex initiative, used Chainlink's infrastructure to connect Brazil's Drex network with Hong Kong's Ensemble platform.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Finance

HIVE Digital's Mining Capacity Hits 23 EH/s as Bitcoin Output Funds AI Shift

The company is converting parts of its mining footprint into AI-ready data centers, including a site in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, that could support 25,000 GPUs.

Data center servers

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Markets

Miners, Robinhood Earnings and Interest-Rate Decisions: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Nov. 3.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Markets

Latin American Crypto Exchange Ripio Launches Argentine Peso Stablecoin 'wARS'

The launch follows Ripio's previous release of a tokenized sovereign bond and is part of a broader push to bring real-world assets onto blockchain rails.

Flag of Argentina (Angelica Reyes/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)