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

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)

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)

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Finance

DL Holdings Spends $41M In Push to Become Hong Kong’s Top Publicly Traded Bitcoin Miner

The purchase brings DL's mining fleet to 5,195 machines, with a hashrate of 2.1 exahashes per second (EH/s).

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Finance

Chainlink Teams With Major Financial Institutions to Fix $58B Corporate Actions Problem

A pilot project used Chainlink's infrastructure to extract and validate data, producing unified records in near real-time and reducing manual work and error.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Finance

BitMine Immersion ETH Holdings Rise to 2.66M Tokens, More Than 2% of Total Supply

Crypto, cash and "moonshot" on the balance sheet now total $11.6 billion, said the company.

Ethereum (CoinDesk)


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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)