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

Elon Musk Changes Profile Name to Harry Bolz, Sparks 127% Surge in HARRYBOLZ Token

A simple change in Musk's profile name on X more than doubled the illiquid token's price.

Gecko Terminal dashboard for HARRYBOLZ token

Markets

Solana DEX Volume Tops $60M as It Looks to Extend 4-Month Winning Streak Over Ethereum

Solana's leadership in DEX volume and revenue supports the bull case in the SOL-ETH ratio.

BTC, ETH carry trades lose shine, spurring record ETF outflows. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Finance

OpenSea Denies Airdrop-Related Talk of Enforced Customer Identification

Polymarket odds on OpenSea issuing an airdrop before April spiked from 25% to 45% following the tweets.

OpenSea's Devin Finzer speaking at NFT.NYC in 2019.

Finance

Binance Bitcoin Reserves Slumped $355M in January as User Balances Rose by $4.4B

The ratio of Binance USDT reserves to user balances also dropped significantly.

Richard Teng (Binance)

Finance

U.K. Man Wants to Buy Landfill Site in Search for Lost $784M of Bitcoin: Report

He tried to sue the local council for not responding to his requests to search the site, but the case was dismissed by a judge in January.

Landfill site (Getty Images / Unsplash)

Markets

Japan’s Financial Regulator Weighs Stricter Disclosure Rules for Crypto Assets: Nikkei

New disclosure rules may align virtual currencies with securities to enhance investor protection and promote any potential ETFs.

japanese yen (Shutterstock)

Markets

Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Purchases, Takes Holdings to 478,740 BTC

Executive Chairman Michael Saylor Announces a Bitcoin Purchase of $742.4 million

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Endowments Are Leaning Into Crypto: FT

U.S. endowment funds are looking at crypto investments as bitcoin soars and Donald Trump draws attention to the industry.

Austin, Texas (Mitchell Kmetz/ Unsplash)