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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Markets

Bitcoin Buckles Below $69K as Crypto Bulls Endure $175M Liquidations

Bitcoin is showing resilience despite the slip, but the corrective period might continue for a while before a return to growth, one observer noted.

Bitcoin price on April 9 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain Developer Monad Labs Raises $225M Led by Paradigm

The company is looking to offer an Ethereum-compatible environment that's faster than the original.

Monad Labs is looking to provide faster EVM processing than Ethereum. (Julian Hochgesang/Unsplash)

Finance

Pompliano, Ex-Journo Melinek Spin Up 'Token Relations' Startup for Blockchain Firms

The media startup will offer a "third bucket" of information to crypto startups' stakeholders.

Token Relations aims to supplant the one-to-many communications model exemplified by X. (Nathan Dumlao/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Americas: BTC Drops to $70K, TON Rallies

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 9, 2024.

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Finance

Bitcoin Layer 2 Mezo Emerges From Stealth With $21M Raise Led by Pantera

Mezo is a permissionless Bitcoin economic layer that uses a neutral smart contract infrastructure to offer a wide range of applications.

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Finance

Stablecoins Are Seeing Adoption as a Cross-Border Settlement Mechanism: Bernstein

Solana is leading the field in blockchain payments, but the network has scalability issues, the report said.

(Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Markets

Metaplanet Shares Soar as Japanese Firm Mimics MicroStrategy on Bitcoin Buying

Metaplanet began as Red Planet Japan, a budget hotel operator, before pivoting to become a Web3 developer.

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Markets

Bitcoin Could Slump Around Reward Halving Time, Arthur Hayes Says

The crypto market faces the U.S. tax season liquidity test around the time the Bitcoin blockchain implements the fourth mining-reward halving on April 20.

Downgrade spiral staricase going down downwards (Unsplash)

Finance

BCB Group Moves Custody of Digital Asset Operations to Metaco’s Platform

The move will allow the crypto payments firm to consolidate its custody technology.

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Finance

Crypto Market Cap to Double to $5 Trillion by Year-End: Ripple CEO

Brad Garlinghouse highlighted several macroeconomic factors behind the potential growth of the total crypto market value.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse  (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)