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

First Mover Americas: HSBC’s Gold Token Introduced in HK

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 27, 2024.

(Steve Heap/Shutterstock)

Finance

Three Decentralized Platforms to Merge AI Tokens, Create AI Alliance

Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol agreed to combine their crypto tokens into one and create an alliance for decentralized AI.

Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Finance

Layer-1 Blockchain Peaq Raises $15M to Expand Its DePIN Ecosystem

Crypto market data provider Messari estimates that decentralized physical infrastructure networks could have a market value of $3.5 trillion by 2028.

two fingers adding a coin to one pile of coins among many

Markets

Galaxy Digital Has Several Positive Catalysts in Play This Year: Canaccord

The crypto firm’s fourth quarter was solid, and commentary about the performance through the end of February was even better, the report said.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz at the Token 2049 conference in Singapore in 2022 (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Finance

Layer-1 Blockchain WAX Signs Deal With Amazon Web Services

The deal will allow developers to deploy nodes on WAX using the AWS console.

Worldwide Asset Exchange signs deal with AWS (Sean Do/Unsplash)

Finance

Tether to Establish AI Unit, Starts Recruitment Drive

The unit will focus on the development of open-source AI models and collaborate with other firms to integrate the models into products that could address real-world challenges.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Arkon Energy Plans Public Listing in Amsterdam Through Merger With Shell Company

The two parties agreed to a 90-day mutual exclusivity period on Feb. 21 to work toward a definitive agreement

Amsterdam (1919021/Pixabay)

Markets

Soaring U.S. Debt Has Potential to Replay U.K.'s 2022 Market Shock, CBO Warns

Bitcoin and gold may already be pricing in a crisis scenario. Both recently set new record highs amid an elevated interest-rates environment worldwide.

Debt, money, deadline (geralt/Pixabay)

Finance

Galaxy Digital Reports 2023 Net Income of $296M Following Year-Earlier $1B Loss

The reversal marks a thawing of the crypto winter that occurred in 2023.

Mike Novogratz, founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital

Finance

TrueFi Unveils Lending Protocol for Tokenized Real-World Assets; TRU Jumps 14%

Investors will be able to take out crypto loans by pledging TrueFi's U.S. Treasury bill tokens, with plans to expand collateral to other types of tokenized RWAs, according to the proposal.

(Jason Leung/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)