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

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Defunct Exchange FTX Receives Multiple Bids for Restart

Options also include a sale of the exchange, which boasted 9 million users before going bankrupt.

Close up of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Markets

Bitcoin Funding Fee Arbitrage Trades Offer Over 10% Yield

The funding fee arbitrage involves selling perpetual futures while simultaneously buying the cryptocurrency in the spot market. The strategy currently offers an annualized yield of over 10%.

A user tracks charts on an tablet with a keyboard and larger monitor in the background.

Finance

Coinbase, Bitcoin Miners Extend Gains as BTC Surges on BlackRock ETF Hopes

Shares of Coinbase (COIN), MicroStrategy (MSTR) and Marathon Digital (MARA) climbed more than 13% as bitcoin (BTC) topped $34,000.

Bitcoin's price will go up if the SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs, Matrixport said. (Unsplash)

Finance

Mastercard Plans Web3 Collaborations With Self-Custody Wallet Firms

The payments processor is working with MetaMask and Ledger among others, according to a Web3 Workshop presentation.

close up of Mastercard logo and hologram on a payment card

Finance

Archax to Launch Regulated Exchange for Tokenized Assets This Year

The company also said it tokenized its interests in the abrdn market fund in euros, pounds and dollars and has a pipeline of several hundred million dollars to be held in the fund.

Archax also tokenized an abrdn market fund in euros, pounds and dollars. (GuerrillaBuzz / Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin at $34.5K on ETF Excitement

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 24, 2023.

(CoinDesk)

Markets

Institutions Race for Bitcoin, Sending CME Open Interest to Record High

Open interest for the CME's bitcoin product hit 100,000 BTC ($3.4 billion) for the first time ever.

CME dominance (K33 Research)

Finance

Nym Technologies Attracts $300M in Crypto Fund Commitments for Privacy Infrastructure

The Nym Innovation Fund, with commitments from investors such as Polychain, KR1, Huobi Incubator and Eden Block, supports projects looking to safeguard privacy in the crypto ecosystem.

hand holding $20 bill in front of trees

Markets

Bitcoin Leads Crypto Majors' Gains; Analysts Bullish on SOL After 30% Weekly Jump

Total market capitalization rose 8% to reach levels not seen since mid-August.

BBitcoin faces headwinds (Pixabay)

Policy

CipherBlade Founder Says Blockchain Sleuthing Firm 'Hijacked'

Members of the original CipherBlade entity – who no longer control its domain or social platforms – are suing the new ownership.

Rich Sanders. (CipherBlade)