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

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Tests $64K as BoJ Pauses Rate Hikes

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 20, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Sept. 20 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Gold May Be Sensing Monetary Debasement as Records Beckon

With both assets leading the market, here's a closer look at the factors driving their remarkable performance.

Bitcoin y el oro han tendido a moverse en tándem. (TradingView)

Tech

Jump's 'Frankendancer' Validator Client Is Live on Solana Mainnet

The ramshackle validator client is a prelude to Jump's highly anticipated Firedancer software.

Jump Chief Science Officer Kevin Bowers (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Maximizing Bitcoin per Share: A New Corporate Strategy

MicroStrategy, Cathedra Bitcoin and Metaplanet are leading the charge in maximizing bitcoin holdings.

Companies are joining the movement to add bitcoin to their balance sheets. (wir_sind_klein/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Rises Above $62K After Fed Cuts Rate

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 19 2024.

BTC price, FMA Sept. 19 2024 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana-Based Drift Raises $25M to Build 'SuperApp' for DeFi Trading

The DeFi platform plans to build an array of financial services tools, including spot and derivatives trading and a predictions market.

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Finance

Commerzbank to Offer Bitcoin, Ether Trading Through Crypto Finance

The service will be offered to existing Commerzbank corporate clients in Germany, and will start with bitcoin and ether trading.

Commerzbank Tower in financial district, Frankfurt, Germany (Marco Bottigelli/Getty)

Markets

Stablecoins Are Becoming Systemically Important, Bernstein Says

Stablecoin supply is back to all-time highs with $170 billion in circulation, the report said.

The supply of stablecoins USDT and USDC  grew by $10 billion in a month, 10x research noted. (Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

Finance

WisdomTree Pushes Further Into Tokenization With New Platform

The asset manager unveiled a platform to give users access to real-world assets.

WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg, left. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Dragonfly Capital Aims to Raise $500M Fund: Bloomberg

Dragonfly closed its third fund, worth $650 million, in April 2022, shortly before the onset of the crypto bear market.

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, and Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR protocol (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)