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

JPMorgan Teams With Coinbase to Let Users Buy Crypto With Bank Accounts, Points and Cards

Credit card support is expected to launch this fall, while rewards redemption and bank account linking are slated for 2026.

JPMorgan Chase Tower Entrance (WhisperToMe/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

PEPE Falls Nearly 5% as Whale Selling and Exchange Outflows Rattle Memecoin

The memecoin sector has underperformed the wider cryptocurrency market, with PEPE's decline contributing to a 6% plunge in the CoinDesk Memecoin Index (CDMEME).

PEPE price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

New Ether Treasury Firm 'ETHZilla' Emerges With $425M Funding and a DeFi Twist

The transaction was backed by sixty institutional and crypto-native investors, including Polychain Capital, GSR.

Ether price chart on a smartphone screen (Cedrik Wesche/Unsplash)

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Markets

BitMine Immersion Sets Up to $1B Buyback as Share Price Cools

The Tom Lee-led company signaled an intent to possibly repurchase stock should the share value decline below the net asset value of its ether holdings.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitmain Plans Its First U.S. Crypto Mining Facility: Bloomberg

The plant will mark a significant shift for Bitmain, which currently produces mining hardware in southeast Asia.

Bitcoin ASIC miner (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

CoinShares Launches Zero-Fee SEI ETP With Staking Yield Across Europe

Crypto ETPs in Europe are plentiful, yet they haven't been adopted the way spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. have.

CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti

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Finance

Stablecoin-Focused Bitcoin Sidechain Plasma Draws $373M in Oversubscribed Token Sale

The Plasma network will hold $1 billion in stablecoins at launch and offer fee-free stablecoin transfers.

Plasma (Unsplash)

Markets

BNB Rises Over 6% Amid U.S.-EU Trade Deal and $610M Corporate Buying

BNB's trading volume surged by 170%, with the price reaching a high of $860.86 before pulling back slightly.

BNB price chart (CoinDesk Data)