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

ECB picks firms including Deutsche Bank, Revolut for digital euro pilot

The pilot will test a beta version of the digital euro for online, offline, in-store, and e-commerce payments with ECB and central bank staff as users.

The European Central Bank Building.

Finance

Bolivia weighs adding Tether's USDT to its national payments system

Crypto usage has spiked in the country, with transaction volumes hitting $430 million in the year after the central bank removed restrictions in mid-2024.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

U.S. inflation, second-quarter earnings reports: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 13.

Wells Fargo logo outside an office block (Shutterstock)

Web3

Lending protocol Bonzo loses 77% of value locked as $9 million oracle exploit rattles Hedera

Bonzo Lend lost approximately $9.05 million after an attacker exploited a verification flaw in a third-party Supra oracle contract on the Hedera network.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

Over $7.2 billion have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins exodus

Migrations to Chainlink CCIP so far include Kelp and Lombard, both of which brought over $1 billion, as well as Solv Protocol, Virtuals, Re and Kraken’s tokenized assets.

People migrating (Sébastien Goldberg/Unsplash)

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Finance

Latin America’s biggest stock exchange now offers options on bitcoin, ether and solana futures

These options settle into underlying futures contracts rather than spot cryptoassets, involving no custody, transfer, or administration of tokens.

Sao Paulo, Brazil (Shutterstock)