Fran Velasquez

TV writer and reporter

Fran is CoinDesk's TV writer and reporter. He is an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned his master's in business and economic reporting. In the past, he has written for Borderless Magazine, CNBC Make It, and Inc. He owns no crypto holdings.

Latest from Fran Velasquez

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Dai Creator Rune Christensen on Terra's Collapse

The MakerDAO founder said on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” that he wasn’t in the mood to say “I told you so,” following Terra’s stablecoin collapse.

2022년 5월 20일

Rune Christensen (CoinDesk TV, modified by CoinDesk)

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Kevin Zhou on UST's Roller-Coaster Ride and Where It Goes From Here

The Galois Capital co-founder foresaw the problems with UST, and joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss what could happen to it now.

2022년 5월 12일

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Ice Cube's Basketball League Is Taking on New 'Owners' With NFTs

VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk and rapper, actor & BIG3 co-founder Ice Cube joined CoinDesk's "First Mover" to discuss decentralized sports team ownership via NFTs.

2022년 5월 6일

The South Central Los Angeles-born entrepreneur is now exploring Web 3. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

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Nicole Buffett on NFTs, Their Future and Explaining Them to Her Grandfather

NFTs are a new unit of value in the evolution of money, artist Nicole Buffett said on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover.”

2022년 5월 5일

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5 Questions for Chris ‘Crypto Dad’ Giancarlo

The ex Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief discusses regulation, digital dollars and financial inclusion. This article is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.

2022년 4월 29일

J. Christopher Giancarlo (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The Crypto Company Aiding El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption

Chicago-based Athena Bitcoin deployed bitcoin ATMs in El Salvador a week after the government legalized bitcoin as legal tender. Despite rollout problems, the company remains bullish on the project. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.

2022년 4월 28일

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - NOVEMBER 22: A shoe shiner works outside a shop that accepts Bitcoin for payment on November 22, 2021 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Merchants in El Salvador slowly adopt Bitcoin as a means for payments after more than 2 months of the cryptocurrency being approved as legal tender by the Legislative Assembly (Photo by Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

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Kevin O'Leary on Clean Bitcoin Mining, the Elon Musk-Twitter Conundrum

The future of the crypto mining industry is likely nuclear and hydro, the “Shark Tank” co-host said on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover.”

2022년 4월 22일

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The Risks Behind LUNA-UST Stablecoin, According to a Bearish Academic

The Terra ecosystem's breakout success may be "unsustainable," University of Calgary law professor Ryan Clements said on CoinDesk TV's “First Mover.”

2022년 4월 21일

LUNA-UST Stablecoin Shows Risks of Destabilization, Law Professor Says (Ganapathy Kumar/Unsplash)

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Derek Edward Schloss: Unlocking the Art Market

Twitter and video games were just a stepping stone for Derek Schloss into crypto. Five years later, the leading VC makes good on his "big unlock."

2022년 4월 20일

(Derek Schloss, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

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Axie Infinity Builder Takes ‘Full Responsibility’ for $625M Ronin Hack, Exec Says

“These are the players who trusted us, and we failed to live up to that trust,” Sky Mavis co-founder Alexsander Larsen said on CoinDesk TV Friday.

2022년 4월 8일

"We're the team that pushed to go down this path of, you know, progressive decentralization and, and all those trade-offs made us vulnerable for this attack,” Larsen said.

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