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

Stablecoins Are Seeing Adoption as a Cross-Border Settlement Mechanism: Bernstein

Solana is leading the field in blockchain payments, but the network has scalability issues, the report said.

(Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Markets

Metaplanet Shares Soar as Japanese Firm Mimics MicroStrategy on Bitcoin Buying

Metaplanet began as Red Planet Japan, a budget hotel operator, before pivoting to become a Web3 developer.

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Markets

Bitcoin Could Slump Around Reward Halving Time, Arthur Hayes Says

The crypto market faces the U.S. tax season liquidity test around the time the Bitcoin blockchain implements the fourth mining-reward halving on April 20.

Downgrade spiral staricase going down downwards (Unsplash)

Finance

BCB Group Moves Custody of Digital Asset Operations to Metaco’s Platform

The move will allow the crypto payments firm to consolidate its custody technology.

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Finance

Crypto Market Cap to Double to $5 Trillion by Year-End: Ripple CEO

Brad Garlinghouse highlighted several macroeconomic factors behind the potential growth of the total crypto market value.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse  (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

ENA Rises 15% as Ethena Labs Increases Staking Rewards

The initial lock cap has been set at $200 million and will be adjusted to increase over time.

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Markets

MicroStrategy Should Continue to Rally as Bitcoin Halving Nears: Benchmark

The broker raised its price target for the software company to $1,875 from $990 and maintained its buy rating on the stock.

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

Finance

Crypto VC Firm Polychain Tops Up AI Platform Ritual's $25M Funding Round With 'Multimillion Dollar' Investment

Blockchain firms are attempting to address concerns that Big Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet will build an artificial-intelligence oligarchy

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin May Rally to $80K on Triangle Break: Technical Analysis

Bitcoin's recent triangular consolidation has ended with a bullish breakout, price chart shows.

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Markets

Bitcoin Halving Is Not a Volatility Event, Analyst Says as Implied Volatility Rises

Options implied volatility is overpricing the event, Amberdata's Greg Magadini said.

Halving (Shutterstock)