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

Metaplanet Sets Up U.S., Japan Subsidiaries, Buys Bitcoin.jp Domain Name

The company also plans to raise 204.1 billion yen ($1.4 billion) in an international share sale to increase its bitcoin holdings.

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Markets

21Shares Hits 50 Crypto ETPs in Europe With Launch of AI and Raydium-Focused Products

AFET tracks a group of decentralized AI protocols, while ARAY offers exposure to Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium's token.

Bulls and bears (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

BNB Inches Higher as Traders Test $930 Resistance, Exchange Tokens Stay Firm

Corporate treasuries now hold around 828,900 BNB, worth roughly $770 million, with several companies, including CEA Industries, pledging to accumulate the cryptocurrency.

BNBUSD (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Santander’s Openbank Starts Offering Crypto Trading in Germany, Spain Coming Soon

The service allows customers to buy, sell and hold five popular cryptocurrencies: BTC, ETH, LTC, MATIC and ADA.

Santander in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Junius/ Wikimedia Commons)

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Finance

Robinhood Expands Private Equity Token Push With New Venture Capital Fund

The fund would invest in a basket of private companies across various industries and hold them through IPO and beyond.

Robinhood website (PiggyBank/ Unsplash/ Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

PEPE Price Sinks 6% Amid Market Sell-Off as Whales Accumulate

The drop in PEPE's value was part of a wider crypto market drawdown, with the CoinDesk 20 index losing 1.8% of its value, and memecoins being especially hard hit.

PEPE USD price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Web3

Monero Suffers Deepest-Ever Blockchain Reorganization, Invalidating 118 Transactions

The reorganization was pinned on Qubic, which has acquired over half of Monero's mining power last month and uses XMR rewards to buy and burn its own token.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Markets

Fed Rate Decision, MKR-SKY Conversion Deadline: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 15

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell walks with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda in Grand Teton National Park

Markets

Memecoins Rally as Traders Bet on Fed Rate Cut and U.S. Altcoin ETFs

Bitcoin's market share has dropped 3.5% in the past month, with indexes tracking it against altcoins entering "Altseason" territory.

Styllized bull (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)