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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Web3

ZKSync Hacker Returns $5M in Stolen Tokens After Accepting 10% Bounty

The hacker cooperated with the ZKsync team and returned the funds within the “safe harbor” deadline while taking a 10% bounty..

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

Consensus Toronto 2025 Coverage

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell on Building the DeFi-Bond Bridge

Powell, a speaker at Consensus 2025, sat down with CoinDesk to chat about his work on the blockchain capital platform, its expansion in Asia and Latin America, focus on bitcoin yield products, and more.

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance (Maple Finance)

Markets

Riot Platforms Secures $100M Bitcoin-Backed Credit Line From Coinbase

The funds will be used for strategic initiatives and general corporate purposes, and cash drawn from the line will carry at least a 7.75% interest rate.

Lending money, bills on a person's hands (Christian Dubovan/Unsplash)

Markets

PayPal to Pay 3.7% Annual Yield on Stablecoin PYUSD to Encourage Broader Use

The move is meant to increase adoption of PYUSD amid growing competition in the stablecoin market

PayPal logo on iphone screen (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)

Markets

Strike CEO Mallers to Lead Bitcoin Investment Company Backed by Tether, Softbank, Brandon Lutnick

Crypto power players back $3B bitcoin SPAC as Trump-era policies spark new wave of institutional bets.

Howard Lutnick is a fan of bitcoin and Tether's USDT. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

GSR Anchors $100M Investment in Upexi to Purchase SOL, Stock Rockets 700%

Upexi will use the capital to build a treasury model centered on solana staking, with GSR leading the private placement.

Solana portfolio shown on a laptop (Amjith S/Unsplash)

Markets

Strategy Buys $555M of Bitcoin, Increases Total Stash to 538,200 BTC

The company has spent $36.47 billion on bitcoin to date and remains the largest corporate holder of BTC.

Photo of Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De)

Markets

Trump's Official Memecoin Surges Despite Massive $320 Million Unlock in Thin Holiday Trading

Despite the price increase, the token is still down over 88% from its peak and investors have lost a total of $2 billion.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Policy

Slovenia Moves to Tax Crypto Profits at 25%

The tax would apply to profits from selling crypto for fiat currency or goods and services, but not to swapping one cryptocurrency for another.

Tax filing documentation (Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash)

Policy

Leaders of $190M Brazilian Crypto Ponzi Scheme Sentenced to Over 170 Years in Prison


The alleged crypto Ponzi scheme lured some 20,000 investors with false promises and raised over $190 million from them.

Lady Justice (Wesley Tingey/Unsplash)