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.

Francisco Rodrigues

Latest from Francisco Rodrigues


Finance

Eigen Labs Axes 25% of Staff to Focus on Building EigenCloud

Eigen Labs, backed by $220 million in venture funding, will continue to operate its EigenLayer and EigenDA protocols as part of EigenCloud.

Empty office with lights on (Fiqih Alfarish/Unsplash)

Finance

Sequans Shares Jump 35% After $384M Debt-Equity Raise to Fund Bitcoin Treasury

The company will use a combination of American depositary shares, warrants and convertible debentures to raise the funds.

Stock trading chart next to watchlist (Tötös Ádám/Unsplash)

Markets

SharpLink Gaming Jumps 26% as Ether Treasury Tops 200K ETH

The company introduced a new metric, ETH Concentration, that measures the number of ETH held per 1,000 diluted shares outstanding.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Markets

BNB Holds Steady as Traders Watch U.S. Tariff Moves

This stability was influenced by global macro developments, including fresh tariff measures announced by U.S. President Donald Trump

BNB price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Advertisement

Finance

Australian Crypto Asset Manager DigitalX Secures Over $13M to Expand Bitcoin Holdings

The funds will be used to increase DigitalX’s bitcoin treasury, bringing its total bitcoin and digital holdings to over 95 million australian dollar.

View of Sydney harbor with Habor Bridge and opera house. (Caleb/ Unsplash)

Markets

BNB Holds Near $660 as Traders Weigh Breakout Potential

Technical analysis suggests that BNB is consolidating, with buyers supporting the price around $659.45 and sellers capping gains at $664.38.

BNB Price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Policy

Russia Creates Registry of Crypto Mining Equipment to Tighten Oversight

Officials say the list will help identify miners and enforce new tax and energy rules as Russia formalizes the crypto sector.

Top of the Kremlin (Artem Beliaikin/Unsplash)

Advertisement

Web3

Bitcoin Developer Jon Atack Briefly Arrested in El Salvador After Neighborly Dispute

He was released after an hour and described the officers as professional and friendly.

Historic center of San Salvador, El Salvador (Esaú Fuentes González/Unsplash)

Markets

CoreWeave to Acquire Core Scientific in $9B All-Stock Deal

The deal values Core Scientific shares at $20.40, a 66% premium to its price late last month, with each Core Scientific share being swapped for 0.1235 CoreWeave shares.

Business deal handshake (Radission US/Unsplash)