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

Friend.Tech's Native Token Tanks to $2.5 After Debut

Early Friday, Friend.Tech airdropped its native token, FRIEND, while debuting version 2 of the platform.

FRIEND's price chart. (DexScreener)

Markets

Crypto Market Sell-Off Was Driven by Retail Investors, JPMorgan Says

Crypto markets have seen significant profit taking in recent weeks with retail investors playing a bigger role than institutions, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

Tech

MicroStrategy Unveils Plan for Bitcoin-Based Decentralized Identity Using Ordinals

MicroStrategy has already built one application using its service. "Orange For Outlook" integrates digital signatures into emails to enable recipients to verify the identity of the sender

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of MicroStrategy (Michael.com)

Finance

Tokenized Private-Credit Platform Untangled Opens Its First USDC Lending Pool on Celo

Private credit has been at the forefront of crypto's asset tokenization trend with over $600 million outstanding in on-chain assets.

Untangled Finance co-founders Quan Le (left) and Manrui Tang (right) (Untangled Finance)

Finance

LayerZero Takes Snapshot as Airdrop Draws Closer

The interoperability protocol indicated that there will be a series of airdrops.

LayerZero co-founders CTO Ryan Zarick and CEO Bryan Pellegrino (Chung Chow, BIV)

Markets

Bitcoin’s Volatility Is Falling and This Will Continue as It Matures: Fidelity

The cryptocurrency is already showing signs of maturity as its volatility drops to all-time lows on a yearly scale, the report said.

Bitcoin volatility is falling. (Shutterstock)

Finance

BlackRock Sees Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions Coming to Bitcoin ETFs

The asset manager has been helping educate pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds about the new spot bitcoin ETF products, BlackRock’s head of digital assets said.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin 'Call Writing' Back in Vogue as Cash And Carry Strategy Loses Shine

Recently, traders have sold $80,000 BTC call options expiring at the end of May to generate additional yield, one observer said.

Calculator, scientific. (kaboompics/Pixabay)

Tech

Blockchain Sleuth Elliptic Explores AI and Anti-Money Laundering Using 200M Bitcoin Transactions

Patterns of illicit activity involving groups of bitcoin nodes and chains of transactions are described in a research paper by Elliptic and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

Elliptic co-founder Tom Robinson (center) is one of the authors of the AI research paper (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Sinks Below $58K in Run-Up to Fed Decision

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for May 1, 2024.

BTC price FMA, May 1 2024 (CoinDesk)