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

Alibaba Founder-Backed Ant Group to Integrate Circle’s USDC on Its Blockchain

The move is part of Ant's broader effort to build a platform that supports various forms of digital currencies, including tokenized assets.

Circle's logo on a building (Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)

Finance

Greece Makes First Crypto Seizure Tied to North Korea's $1.5B Bybit Hack

The Hellenic Anti-Money Laundering Authority issued a freezing order, locking the assets and preventing them from being transferred.

Bybit lost roughly $1.5 billion in crypto to a theft Friday. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

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Markets

BNB Climbs as Faster Blocks and Tokenized Stocks Spark Investor Interest

The recent Maxwell hard fork which reduced block times and the introduction of tokenized equities by Kraken and Backed Finance have contributed to growth.

BNB price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

PEPE Rises 3% as Whale Holdings Climb, Crypto Market Shakes Off Tariff Jitters

Whales increased their PEPE holdings by 1.75% to 303 trillion tokens, while the supply on exchanges decreased by 2.9%, data shows.

PEPE price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Eigen Labs Axes 25% of Staff to Focus on Building EigenCloud

Eigen Labs, backed by $220 million in venture funding, will continue to operate its EigenLayer and EigenDA protocols as part of EigenCloud.

Empty office with lights on (Fiqih Alfarish/Unsplash)

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Finance

Sequans Shares Jump 35% After $384M Debt-Equity Raise to Fund Bitcoin Treasury

The company will use a combination of American depositary shares, warrants and convertible debentures to raise the funds.

Stock trading chart next to watchlist (Tötös Ádám/Unsplash)

Markets

SharpLink Gaming Jumps 26% as Ether Treasury Tops 200K ETH

The company introduced a new metric, ETH Concentration, that measures the number of ETH held per 1,000 diluted shares outstanding.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)