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

Major U.S. Banks Mull Jointly Launching Stablecoin: WSJ

Such a stablecoin, potentially open to other banks, aims to improve transaction speeds and efficiency while fending off competition from crypto firms.

Battered BTC bulls pin hopes on the Fed. (JamesQube/Pixabay)

Finance

Justin Sun-Linked Wallet Leading Access to Trump Dinner Tagged as Belonging to HTX

Sun, a Chinese-born crypto billionaire, is also involved with the Trump-linked ecosystem through a $75 million investment in World Liberty Financial.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

Finance

Justin Sun Emerges as Donald Trump Memecoin's Top Holder With $21.9M Stake

Sun has invested $75 million in World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance project backed by the Trump family.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Strive Eyes $7.9B Distressed Mt. Gox Bitcoin Claims to Accumulate Discounted BTC

The goal is to gain exposure to bitcoin at a discount, with the aim of beating BTC's price performance in the long run.

Stacks of paper files in an office (Wesley Tingey/Unsplash)

Policy

South Korea to Let Non-Profits, Exchanges Sell Crypto Under New FSC Rules

Non-profits will need to meet strict conditions such as five years of audited operations and internal committees to vet donations.

South Korea's flag (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash)

Markets

SocGen’s Crypto Arm to Launch Dollar Denominated Stablecoin on Ethereum, Reports Say

The stablecoin, initially for institutional investors, follows the launch of SG Forge’s euro stablecoin, EURCV.

Office tower at night (Vincent Wachowiak/Unsplash)

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Markets

KULR Boosts Bitcoin Treasury to 800 BTC With $9M Purchase

This latest acquisition was made at an average purchase price of $103,234 per bitcoin.

KULR expands bitcoin holdings to 510 BTC (Jacco Rienks, Unsplash)