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

Centrifuge Taps Wormhole to Launch Multichain Tokenization Platform


Centrifuge V3 aims to unify real-world asset tokenization across blockchains, and is starting with the $230 million Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)

Finance

Kraken Teams Up With Mastercard to Introduce Crypto Debit Cards

The partnership will see the crypto exchange introduce physical and digital debit cards users will be able to use to spend their cryptocurrency throughout the world.

Mastercard debit card next to phone with price chart (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Policy

Argentina’s Congress Launches Probe Into LIBRA Fiasco

Lawmakers move to investigate the controversial token promoted by President Milei after investors suffered major losses.

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

Web3

DeFi Game Aavegotchi to Abandon Polygon, Migrate to Coinbase’s Base

The migration aims to improve user experience, marketplace access, onboarding and comes amid sharp drops in user activity and total value locked on Polygon.

Photo of the Aavegotchi booth at EthDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk(

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Markets

Ex-Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald’s SOL Strategies Bought 24,000 SOL in March

The Solana infrastructure firm now holds over 267,000 SOL, with nearly all of it staked across its growing validator network

Solana portfolio shown on a laptop (Amjith S/Unsplash)

Finance

South Korea’s National Pension Service Eyes Blockchain for $890B Fund's Transactions

The NPS plans to invite blockchain experts and companies to participate in a preliminary disclosure process before starting a research study.

South Korea flag (Planet Volumes / Unsplash)

Markets

Cathie Wood’s ARK Buys Over $13M Worth Coinbase Shares During Market Rout

ARK Invest adds over 83,000 shares of Coinbase across multiple ETFs during the market downturn.

Ark Invest's Cathie Woods (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Posts Worst Q1 in a Decade, Raising Questions About Where the Cycle Stands


BTC fell 11.7% in Q1 2025, its weakest first quarter since 2015, as investors sold into economic uncertainty.

Where in the cycle is bitcoin price? (Emily Morter/Unsplash)

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Policy

SEC Staff to Reassess Biden-Era Crypto Guidance Amid Regulatory Shakeup

This review is part of efforts to ease regulatory pressure on the digital assets sector and may lead to new regulatory frameworks.

Acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Developer Proposes Hard Fork to Protect BTC From Quantum Computing Threats

The proposal outlines a plan to enforce a network-wide migration of BTC from legacy wallets to ones secured by post-quantum cryptography.

Scientific equation close-up (Bozhin Karaivanov / Unsplash)