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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Finance

Trump-Family Backed World Liberty Financial Starts Token Reserve for Crypto Investment

The protocol has already accumulated tokens of various networks.

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Markets

Fireblocks Adds Support for Sony's Soneium, First Step in Provision of Custody Services

Support for Soneium is a precursor for firms to use Fireblocks' technology to provide crypto custody services on the month-old blockchain.

Sony (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Crypto Ecosystem Growth Slowed in January Even as Total Market Cap Rose, JPMorgan Says

Total crypto market cap increased 8% to about $3.4 trillion last month, the report said.

JPMorgan (Shutterstock)

Finance

TON Blockchain to Use LayerZero to Improve Cross-Chain Functionality

Developers will be able to deploy tokens on TON from any of LayerZero's chains using a single contract.

(Jainath Ponnala/Unsplash)

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)