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

Stablecoin yield infrastructure project raises $13.5M in round led by Sky Ecosystem

Osero is coming with three products: Earn, App, and Foundry.

Stacks of 100 dollar bills (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

DTCC builds out blockchain-based collateral system with Chainlink integration

The platform tokenizes collateral on blockchain rails and uses smart contracts to enable 24/7 automated collateral management across financial markets.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Finance

Exodus dumps 1,000 bitcoin: Why the crypto wallet is cashing out to fund a payments empire

Exodus sold $73.2M in crypto, causing cash, cash equivalents, and stablecoins to jump from $5.2M to $74.4M by the end of Q1 2026.

Bitcoin price chart on a screen (Behnam Norouzi/Unsplash)

Finance

Galaxy Digital to manage Sharplink’s new $125 million onchain yield play

The Galaxy Sharplink Onchain Yield Fund would receive $100 million from Sharplink’s staked ETH treasury and $25 million from Galaxy.

Daytrading bitcoins financial markets at a coffeeshop. (Austin Distel/Unsplash)

Finance

Corpay taps BVNK to bring stablecoin wallets to corporate payments

Corpay will use stablecoin rails in its treasury operations to improve capital efficiency, reduce reliance on pre-funded accounts, and move funds across its global footprint.

Wallet (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin whipsaws on CME open as Iran tensions pressure crypto markets

BTC briefly topped $82,400 before slipping below $81,000 as traders repositioned around CME futures open and geopolitical risks rattled markets.

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Markets

New Fed chair, Base's Azul upgrade, corporate earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting May 11.

U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump Media’s Q1 loss widens to $406 million on bitcoin, CRO markdowns

The loss was primarily driven by $244 million in unrealized losses on cryptocurrency holdings and an additional $108.2 million investment loss.

President Donald Trump at the White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)