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

Bearish sentiment prevails as bitcoin falls below $67,000, ether drops

Bitcoin and ether extended declines, dragging down crypto-related stocks, even as gold and silver rallied.

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Finance

Tether invests in LayerZero Labs as it doubles down on cross-chain tech, agentic finance

LayerZero’s Omnichain infrastructure (OFT) enables liquid stablecoin use across networks and “agentic finance” use cases.

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Markets

Memecoins post gains as largest crypto tokens languish

Bitcoin was little changed Tuesday, while ether fell. CoinDesk's memecoin Index rose.

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Markets

Bitcoin miner Cango sold $305 million of BTC during market slump to fund AI shift

The company plans to deploy modular GPU units across 40+ global sites to provide on-demand AI inference capacity for small and mid-sized businesses.

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Markets

Bitcoin, major tokens drop as traders position for downside protection

Bitcoin extended recent losses as derivatives data show a clear risk-off shift.

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Markets

Bitcoin mining difficulty drops by most since 2021 as miners capitulate

Miners are facing significant challenges, with bitcoin revenue per petahash falling by half from a peak of $70 to $35.

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Markets

Coinbase, Robinhood earnings, U.S. jobs report: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Feb. 9.

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Policy

Bithumb $44 billion bitcoin blunder puts South Korea regulators on alert over local crypto exchanges

The Financial Supervisory Service said it plans to build tools that automatically extract suspicious trading patterns by the second and minute.

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