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

Visa Expands Settlement Platform to Stellar, Avalanche, Adds Support for 3 Stablecoins

Visa's platform now supports four stablecoins across four blockchains, including Ethereum and Solana.

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

Tech

Clearpool Expands to Payments Financing, Debuts Stablecoin Yield Token

The decentralized finance platform targets fintechs bridging fiat settlement gaps with short-term stablecoin credit.

Bottom of a swimming pool. (xing419/Pixabay)

Markets

Crypto Bulls Get Hit With $200M in Liquidations as Powell Rattles Market With Fed Warning

Altcoins like SOL, AVAX, HYPE were down 4%-5% before paring losses, while BONK and PENGU plunged 10% then bounced back.

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Markets

Fed Holds Rates Steady as Expected, but Two Dissent From Decision

Fed Chair Jerome Powell has been under considerable pressure from the White House to ease monetary policy.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 30, 2022. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Ethereum Treasury Firm BTCS Aims to Raise Up to $2B in Ether Buying Power

The company holds more than 70,000 ether valued at roughly $265 million.

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Finance

Twenty One Boosting Bitcoin Holdings; CEO Jack Mallers Sees $150K BTC Incoming

Bitcoin's fixed supply will force higher prices as capital markets ramp up buying, Mallers said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.

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

Finance

Brazil's VERT Capital to Tokenize $1B in Real-World Assets on XDC Network

The deal underscores the growing role of Brazil as a tokenization hub in the region.

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Finance

Michael Saylor's Strategy Makes Massive $2.4B Bitcoin Purchase With Preferred Stock Sale Proceeds

The firm days ago sold nearly $2.5 billion of its new preferred series, dubbed STRC or "stretch," and quickly deployed the funds into BTC.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

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Finance

EToro Plans to Tokenize U.S. Stocks on Ethereum in Blockchain Push

The move is part of the firm's broader push towards enabling 24/7 trading with all kinds of assets using blockchain rails.

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Finance

New Ether Treasury Firm 'ETHZilla' Emerges With $425M Funding and a DeFi Twist

The transaction was backed by sixty institutional and crypto-native investors, including Polychain Capital, GSR.

Ether price chart on a smartphone screen (Cedrik Wesche/Unsplash)