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

Canaan Shares Jump Over 12% as it Lands Largest U.S. Order in 3 Years

The machines will ship in the fourth quarter of 2025, the company said, while keeping the buyer unnamed.

Racks of mining machines.

Finance

Abu Dhabi Bans Crypto Mining on Farms, Citing Energy Use

Farms caught mining cryptocurrency will face penalties, including a fine of 100,000 dirham ($27,000), doubled for repeat offenses.

Data center servers

Markets

PEPE Meme Coin Jumps 6% as Trading Volume Triples and Whale Activity Builds

PEPE's price is now supported near $0.00000900, with resistance around $0.000009681, and open interest for PEPE futures has risen to near $600 million.

PEPEUSD (CoinDesk Data)

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Markets

BNB Edges Higher As Community Rallies After X Account Hack

The hack involved phishing links promoting a fake memecoin, but the BNB community responded by buying the token en masse after the hacker dumped it.

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Finance

MEXC Ventures Raises Ethena Investment to $66M

The new investment builds on previous purchases of ENA and USDe, its synthetic stablecoin that tracks the value of the dollar without traditional reserves.

Seed Funding Investment coins in a jar (Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

PEPE Falls 2.6% After Failing to Breach Resistance Levels

Despite the drop, PEPE's derivatives market activity remains strong, with open interest reaching $560 million and trading volume at $1.2 billion.

PEPEUSD (CoinDesk Data)

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Finance

Chainlink, UBS Advance $100T Fund Industry Tokenization via Swift Workflow

The solution uses CRE to process subscriptions and redemptions for tokenized funds, enabling institutions to access blockchain infrastructure using existing tools.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Markets

FTX Payouts, U.S. Tariffs, Nonfarm Payrolls: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 29

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)