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 Halving Could Bolster ETF Tailwinds for the Cryptocurrency: Canaccord

If history repeats itself, an even more bullish period for bitcoin and crypto markets could be on the horizon in the months following the halving, the report said.

windsock with hang glider in the distance

Policy

Indonesia Will Require Crypto Products to Pass Through Regulatory Sandbox or Be Deemed Illegal

The initiative is aimed at combating fraud and will kick in at the start of next year.

Indonesia's parliament building (Shutterstock)

Policy

Dutch Prosecutors Seek 64-Month Jail Sentence for Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev

The judge will deliver the verdict on May 14, the court said.

Free Alex Pertsev poster spotted outside the courthouse (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether.Fi's ETHFI Jumps 50% to Record, May Boost Valuations for Liquid Restaking Token Airdrops: Analyst

Restaking has become one of the hottest sectors in DeFi, with new protocols leveraging Ethereum's proof-of-stake blockchain to secure other networks.

ETHFI price (CoinDesk)

Markets

KuCoin Withdrawals Spike to $1B in Crypto Amid U.S. Regulatory Clampdown

The surge occurred as U.S. federal prosecutors charged the exchange and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws on Tuesday.

16:9 KuCoin (Shutterstock)

Markets

21Shares Lists ETP for Staking Telegram-Endorsed Token TON

The 21Shares Toncoin Staking ETP (TONN) listed on Swiss SIX Exchange on Wednesday.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Was More Profitable in February Than January: Jefferies

Publicly traded North American mining companies produced a smaller share of new bitcoin last month, slipping to 17.5% of the total network, the report said.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

Markets

First Mover Americas: HSBC’s Gold Token Introduced in HK

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 27, 2024.

(Steve Heap/Shutterstock)

Finance

Three Decentralized Platforms to Merge AI Tokens, Create AI Alliance

Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol agreed to combine their crypto tokens into one and create an alliance for decentralized AI.

Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Finance

Layer-1 Blockchain Peaq Raises $15M to Expand Its DePIN Ecosystem

Crypto market data provider Messari estimates that decentralized physical infrastructure networks could have a market value of $3.5 trillion by 2028.

two fingers adding a coin to one pile of coins among many