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

Crypto Venture Capital Funding to Rise This Year, Won't Hit Previous Highs: JPMorgan

Digital asset projects are increasingly turning to community-driven platforms to raise money, the report said.

JPMorgan (Shutterstock)

Finance

Morgan Stanley Figuring Out How to Act as Transactors of Crypto, CEO Says

Morgan Stanley will work with the U.S. Treasury and other regulators to figure out how it can offer crypto in a safe way.

Morgan Stanley (Shutterstock)

Finance

Circle Unveils Paymaster to Allow USDC to Be Used for Transaction Fees

The product allows users to interact with decentralized applications using USDC only, ditching the need for native tokens.

Circle set up its own "house" on the Promenade. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial Buys $2.6M TRX and $10M WBTC

The project now holds $352 million worth of crypto tokens, Arkham shows.

President Donald Trump (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

Ethereum Layer-2 Protocols Achieve Record Transaction Throughput

Layer 2 protocols are faster than ever in processing transactions, according to data source growthepie.xyz.

Layer 2s process transactions at a record speed. (Boskampi/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin May Hit Record Highs on More Than 70 Days This Year: Van Straten

The largest cryptocurrency seems to be tracking the 2017 price performance, when it posted all-time highs on 77 days.

Bitcoin Bulls (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Is Like Coiled Spring Nearing Burst of Price Volatility, Key Indicator Suggests

Volatility bulls might want to pull up the 60-day price range indicator on their screens as it's hinting at heightened BTC price turbulence.

BTC above $100K is like a coiled spring. (analogicus/Pixabay)

Finance

Saudi Prince’s Investment Firm Shuns Crypto Investments, Citing Lack of Utility: Reuters

Speculation on social media had suggested that the Saudi royal family was considering investing in cryptocurrencies.

A view of the Aramco oil refinery in Saudi Arabia, 1990. (Tom Stoddart/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tech

Bitcoin-Based Stablecoin USDh Secures $3M in Liquidity

DeFi protocol Hermetica said the liquidity will make USDh the largest stablecoin on Stacks

16:9 Swell, liquid (Winkelmann/Pixabay)