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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Технологии

Sonne Finance Token Drops 60% After $20M Exploit on Optimism

Attackers stole ether, velo and stablecoins before developers mitigated the hack and paused operations. Sonne’s markets on the Base blockchain were not affected.

Crypto hacks, scams and exploits netted some $2 billion this year. (fikry anshor/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Технологии

DeFi Lender Liquity Unveils New Stablecoin With User-Set Borrowing Rates in White Paper

Liquity V2 will allow borrowers to set their borrowing costs, a novel approach in DeFi, and plans to pay the lion's share of protocol revenues back to liquidity providers.

(Liquity)

Политика

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Found Guilty, Sentenced to 64 Months in Prison by Dutch Court

Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022.

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

Рынки

Bitcoin Market Activity Suggests Looming U.S. Inflation Data May Be Non-Event

The way bitcoin options are priced suggests Wednesday's CPI report, though pivotal, may do little to disturb the calm in the crypto market.

food shopping in brown bags

Анализ новостей

Bitcoin Runes Protocol Sees Traction Waning After Much-Hyped Introduction

User activity has plunged after a hyped run-up to the introduction of the Runes protocol, which was expected by some to mirror Solana’s meme coin ecosystem.

Leonidas's DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON token secured a coveted satoshi during the fourth Bitcoin halving. (DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON)

Финансы

Coinbase Resumes Operations After 3-Hour Outage

Some users may still be experiencing a "degraded" service, the exchange said.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Финансы

Wolverine-Themed Meme Coins Flood Market Following RoaringKitty's Cryptic Post

The Wolverine-themed tokens are not the only ones to have been issued on pump.fun.

Wolverine (Jack O'Rourke/Unsplash)

Политика

China's Digital Yuan Isn't Taking Off Despite State Employee Salary Trial: Report

Most early users immediately transfer the digital yuan balances to their bank accounts to spend as cash.

China digital yuan (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Финансы

Crypto Exchange Rain Hit by $14.8M Exploit: ZachXBT

The hack occurred on April 29, ZachXBT said.

(Azamat E/Unsplash)