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

Wormhole’s W Token Is Paying Out 999% a Week on Solana Protocol Kamino

The Solana DeFi application Kamino is offering a weekly yield of more than 999%, paid out in W and JTO tokens.

Wormhole (Genty/Pixabay)

Policy

UK Regulators Publish Draft Guidance on Digital Securities Sandbox Open to DLT

The DSS will last five years and could lead to a new regulatory regime for securities settlement.

UK United Kingdom British England Flag (Unsplash)

Finance

Wormhole Debuts at $3B Valuation in 617M Token Airdrop

Based on the debut price, the project's W token has a fully diluted value of $16.5 billion.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

Galaxy Digital-Owned Crypto Custody Specialist GK8 Unveils Tokenization Wizard

The first client to use the tool will be a partnership between asset manager DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy to manage a fully collateralized euro-denominated stablecoin, GK8 said.

The GK8 team

Markets

Robinhood Initiated as Market Perform at KBW as Retail Trading Returns

Retail engagement materially accelerated in the first quarter, the report said.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Trading Volumes Tripled in March as the Largest Cryptocurrency Hit Record Highs

Trading volumes for the exchange-traded funds soared to $110 billion, three times higher than either January or February, led by BlackRock's IBIT.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF Logs $88M of Outflows, Overtaking Grayscale for First Time

Tuesday's outflows from the ARKB exchange-traded fund marked the first time a provider lost more than Grayscale’s GBTC.

outflows (Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Figure Markets Has a Plan to Democratize Finance

What appears to be another post-FTX trading-and-custody play with institutions in mind, is really all about visionary disruption.

Figure Technologies CEO Mike Cagney (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin Lightning Exchange FixedFloat Sees 'Suspicious' Transfers of $3M to Ethereum, Tron

The website was down for “technical work” as of early European afternoon hours Tuesday.

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

Finance

DeFi Protocol Cega's New Options Product Marries Gold, Ether to Offer Up to 83% Yield

The Gold Rush product offers a trifecta of attractive return, market exposure and protection from losses.

Gold (Credit: Shutterstock)