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

PEPE Meme Coin Jumps 6% as Trading Volume Triples and Whale Activity Builds

PEPE's price is now supported near $0.00000900, with resistance around $0.000009681, and open interest for PEPE futures has risen to near $600 million.

PEPEUSD (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

BNB Edges Higher As Community Rallies After X Account Hack

The hack involved phishing links promoting a fake memecoin, but the BNB community responded by buying the token en masse after the hacker dumped it.

CoinDesk

Crypto Daybook Americas

'Uptober' Begins with Bitcoin, Gold Rising: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 1, 2025

Bulls

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Finance

MEXC Ventures Raises Ethena Investment to $66M

The new investment builds on previous purchases of ENA and USDe, its synthetic stablecoin that tracks the value of the dollar without traditional reserves.

Seed Funding Investment coins in a jar (Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

PEPE Falls 2.6% After Failing to Breach Resistance Levels

Despite the drop, PEPE's derivatives market activity remains strong, with open interest reaching $560 million and trading volume at $1.2 billion.

PEPEUSD (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Chainlink, UBS Advance $100T Fund Industry Tokenization via Swift Workflow

The solution uses CRE to process subscriptions and redemptions for tokenized funds, enabling institutions to access blockchain infrastructure using existing tools.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Markets

FTX Payouts, U.S. Tariffs, Nonfarm Payrolls: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 29

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Finance

DL Holdings Spends $41M In Push to Become Hong Kong’s Top Publicly Traded Bitcoin Miner

The purchase brings DL's mining fleet to 5,195 machines, with a hashrate of 2.1 exahashes per second (EH/s).

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Finance

Chainlink Teams With Major Financial Institutions to Fix $58B Corporate Actions Problem

A pilot project used Chainlink's infrastructure to extract and validate data, producing unified records in near real-time and reducing manual work and error.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov