Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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Tech

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys Bridge to Tackle Collateral Bottleneck of Using BTC in DeFi

Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2

A photo of Citrea's four co-creators (Citrea)

Markets

SOL Strategies Surges on Up to $500M Credit Facility for Solana Investment

The Toronto-listed firm said it will use the capital to buy more SOL and expand its Solana validator business.

Former Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald to take the reins of Cypherpunk (Cypherpunk)

Markets

Galaxy Digital Deepens AI and HPC Pivot With Expanded CoreWeave Deal, Shares Surge

Galaxy shares surged 8% and are now 60% higher than their April lows.

Mike Novogratz, Galaxy founder and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024 (CoinDesk/Shutterstock/Suzanne Cordiero)

Markets

Strategy Stock Saw $180M in Failed Trades in March, Possible Short Squeeze Indicator

High failed-to-deliver volume and high short interest suggest pressure is building beneath MSTR.

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

Finance

Travel Rule Compliance Surges on New Regs, Stablecoin Payments, Notabene Says

Notabene’s annual survey of crypto firms found that almost all respondents expect to be Travel Rule compliant by mid-2025.

Notabene CEO Pelle Braendgaard (Notabene)

Markets

Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Surge Shows Investor Confidence on Trade Deals, Powell

Bitcoin and ether saw notable price gains Tuesday as U.S. officials raised hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal.

Photo of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Markets

Cardano’s ADA, Ether Lead Market Gains as Bitcoin ‘Decoupling’ Continues

“Bitcoin is continuing to show signs of its own decoupling away from equity markets,” one watcher said.

A drawing of two hands touching fingertip to fingertip (Claudio Schwarz/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)

Finance

Arch Labs Raises $13M in Funding for Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts

The funding round, which valued Arch Labs at $200 million, was led by Pantera Capital.

16:9 Arch (LoggaWiggler/Pixabay)

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