Latest from Francisco Rodrigues
Chainlink Is ‘Essential Infrastructure’ for Tokenized Finance, Says Grayscale Research
Grayscale's report comes shortly after it filed to convert its Chainlink Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would trade on NYSE Arca.
'Liquidity Crisis': $12B in DeFi Liquidity Sits Idle as 95% of Capital Goes Unused
This inefficiency disproportionately affects retail liquidity providers, with 50% losing money due to impermanent loss, and net deficits exceeding $60 million, a new report finds.
Aerodrome Finance Hit by 'Front-End' Attack, Users Urged to Avoid Main Domain
The attack did not compromise the underlying smart contracts, but users are advised to avoid the compromised domains and instead use decentralized ENS domains.
Crypto Exchange Ripio Reveals $100M Crypto Treasury, Second Largest in Latin America
The company's holdings, which include bitcoin and ether, have been managed through trading and hedging strategies since 2017.
Stablecoin Spending Goes Mainstream With Opera MiniPay’s LatAm Integration
The feature connects USDT balances to PIX and Mercado Pago, enabling users to pay with QR codes and converting to local currency instantly.
DeFi Giant Spark Shelves Crypto App Plans to Focus on Institutional Infrastructure
The protocol will instead focus on "liquidity infrastructure and deals" such as its recent $1 billion investment into PayPal's PYUSD.
Coinbase Debuts DEX Trading in Brazil as ‘Everything App’ Vision Grows
The move comes amid new regulations from Brazil's central bank, requiring crypto firms to be licensed and report international transactions.
Crypto Long & Short: Licences, Liquidity and the Shifting Geography of Exchange Quality
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Joshua de Vos shares insights from a recent Benchmark report on how the exchange landscape is maturing and becoming more execution-focused, but increasingly uneven as regional licensing diverges, liquidity fragments, and transparency advances inconsistently. Then, we take a look at where the digital assets market may be headed in the final weeks of 2025 with Andy Baehr’s “Vibe Check."
'Permissionless Assets’: Robinhood’s 3-Phase Tokenization Plan to Disrupt TradFi
Robinhood is working on infrastructure developments, said Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner, including 24/7 trading, and leveraging technologies like Arbitrum Stylus for compatibility.
Société Générale’s SG-FORGE Issues First Tokenized Bond in U.S.
The bond uses Broadridge Financial Solutions' tokenization technology and runs on the Canton Network, a privacy-enabled blockchain infrastructure.
