Krisztian Sandor

Krisztian Sandor is a U.S. markets reporter focusing on stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets. He graduated from New York University's business and economic reporting program before joining CoinDesk. He holds BTC, SOL and ETH.

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Finance

Rain Expands Stablecoin Visa Cards to Solana, Tron and Stellar as Digital Payment Gains Momentum

The crypto card provider said demand is growing to make stablecoins spendable at merchants that accept Visa payments.

A Visa card being held to next to a payment terminal. (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Treasury Firm Twenty One Capital Brings Total Fundraise to $685M

The fresh fundraising comes ahead the firm's merger with Nasdaq-listed Cantor Equity Partners to become a publicly-traded bitcoin treasury company.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

VivoPower Raises $121M to Launch XRP Treasury Strategy With Saudi Royal Backing

The Nasdaq-listed energy firm aims to be the first public company with XRP focus, with ex-SBI Ripple Asia executive joining as chairman of the advisory board.

Nasdaq futures chalks out golden cross. (Flickr)

Finance

New Jersey's Bergen County to Tokenize $240B in Real Estate Deeds on Avalanche Network

The wealthy New York City suburb will migrate 370,000 property deeds — representing about $240 billion worth of real estate — onto an immutable, searchable blockchain ledger.

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Conduit Raises $36M to Expand Stablecoin-Based Cross-Border Payments Beyond SWIFT

Stablecoins are one of the fastest-growing sectors in crypto and an increasingly popular tool for global payments, attracting interest from venture capital investments.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Wall Street Giant Cantor Debuts Bitcoin Lending Business With First Tranches to FalconX, Maple

The financing will help Maple Finance, a major crypto lending platform itself, to speed up its growth, CEO Sidney Powell said.

Brandon Lutnick (CoinDesk)

Markets

Trump Media Raising $2.5B for Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

With the move, the operator of Truth Social is joining a growing roster of publicly-traded firms to raise capital for buying crypto assets like bitcoin.

Head and shoulders photo of U.S. President Donald Trump standing behind a microphone.

Finance

Prometheum Eyes U.S. Tokenization Boom With Acquisition and Fully Regulated Stack

The firm has acquired a broker-dealer and launched a SEC-registered digital transfer agent as competition heats up in the tokenization sector.

Aaron (pictured) and Benjamin Kaplan, Co-CEOs of Prometheum, are expanding their custody scope for crypto securities. (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Rally Stalls Below $110K as Short-Term Holders Take $11B Profits

Most U.S. markets were closed for Monday's holiday, but European stocks reacted positively to Trump's moratorium on 50% tariffs.

Bitcoin price on May 26 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump Media Seeks to Raise $3B for Crypto Purchase: FT

The capital raise would see the Trump-linked firm joining a slew of public companies following the playbook of Michael Saylor's Strategy.

President Donald Trump (Shutterstock)