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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Policy

Binance Fined $4.3M by Canadian Financial Regulator for ‘Administrative Violations’

FINTRAC said Binance failed to register as a foreign money services business and neglected to report nearly 6,000 transactions over $10,000.

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Robinhood Wells Notice Shouldn’t Deter Eventual Approval of an Ether Spot ETF: JPMorgan

Potential legal action against Robinhood should be viewed as a continued attempt by the SEC to reinforce its stance that all crypto tokens other than bitcoin and ether should be classified as securities, the report said.

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Finance

Solana-Based Marketplace AgriDex Raises $5M to Tokenize Agricultural Industry

AgriDex brings agricultural commodities onto the blockchain by allowing crops to be bought on its marketplace with finalized deals backed by non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Agriculture (Pete Linforth/Pixabay)

Finance

Ledn First-Quarter Loans Top Record $690M as Lending Market Snaps Back

The majority of loans were issued to institutional market makers following U.S. approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds.

Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)

Finance

Binance Fired Investigator Who Uncovered Market Manipulation at Client DWF Labs: WSJ

A Binance team found that "VIP" clients – those trading more than $100 million per month – were engaging in pump-and-dump schemes and wash trading, the Wall Street Journal said.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Markets

Robinhood Delivers Big Earnings Beat Driven by Booming Crypto Trading: Analysts

The positive momentum seen in the first quarter has continued, with the platform taking in a record $5 billion in deposits in April, the analysts said.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Markets

Key Bitcoin Indicator Points to Period of Calm in Crypto Market

BTC's volatility risk premium (VRP) has collapsed in a sign of a market trending towards stability, where future uncertainties are less of a concern.

Key bitcoin volatility indicator suggests a period of calm in the crypto market. (Stephanie Klepacki/Unsplash)

Finance

Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck Sees Nasdaq Listing Completion in Second, Third Quarters

Coincheck said the timing is subject to approval by Thunder Bridger IV's stockholders, the SEC and Nasdaq.

Nasdaq stock exchange studio

Policy

U.S. Financial Industry to Explore Sharing Ledger Technology for Multiasset Transactions

The New York Innovation Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will act as a technical observer.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Policy

Indonesia Regulator Forms Crypto Committee to Monitor Industry's Operation, Compliance

The committee was established by the Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Agency, known as Bappebti, because crypto is considered a commodity in Indonesia.

Indonesia flag (Bisma Mahendra/Unsplash)