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

Binance to Airdrop $3M in BNB to Users Affected by Morocco Earthquake

Users who had verified their address details for Sept. 9 to show they live in Marrakesh-Safi province will each receive $100 worth of Binance coin.

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Cryptocurrency Altcoin Crash Is Coming: Matrixport

FTX is not the only major seller of crypto assets, venture capital funds are also under pressure to return money to their investors, the report said.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitget Establishes $100M Pot to Fund Ecosystem Growth

Bitget anticipates tightened regulations and growth of layer-2 blockchain networks and DeFi technologies bringing about an evolution in how centralized exchanges operate.

A hand adds another coin to a stack. (Shutterstock)

Policy

FTX Holds $1.16B in SOL, $200M in Bahamas Real Estate, Court Filing Says

The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year.

Nassau, the Bahamas, where FTX owns hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate (Flickr)

Finance

Hack of Vitalik Buterin's X Account Leads to $691K Stolen

Almost three-quarters of the stolen assets were in the form of NFTs.

Vitalik Buterin shares a new blog post on Ethereum's roadmap to address scaling, privacy, and wallet security. (CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Altcoins Start the Week in the Red

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 11, 2023.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

Decentralized Exchange Sushi Expands to Aptos Blockchain

Sushi has more than seven times the amount of value locked than the entire Aptos blockchain.

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Finance

Steve Kokinos, Creditors Named to Run Celsius 2.0

Executives from WeWork, Lehman Brothers and miner US Bitcoin will serve on the board of the crypto lender’s successor, as will two members of Celsius’ own creditor committee

Celsius is being sold to crypto consortium Fahrenheit (Pixabay)

Web3

Animoca Brands Raises $20M for Metaverse Project Mocaverse

The investment was led by CMCC Global and included contributions from Kingsway Capital, Liberty City Ventures and GameFi Ventures.

Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands at Consensus 2023 (CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Shows Signs of Life

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 8, 2023.

(CoinDesk)