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

Bitcoin's Use as Margin Collateral in Crypto Futures Trading Is Growing

Using BTC as collateral for a derivative is effectively a double whammy, according to analysts.

bag of coins

Markets

Traders Are Paying 2,000% to Buy CYBER as Social Network's Tokens Soar

The price of the tokens has more than doubled on some exchanges in the past week in an otherwise little-changed market.

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Stablecoins Can Provide an Escape From High-Inflation Currencies: Brevan Howard Digital

Usage has shown a low correlation with crypto exchange volumes, which suggests that significant stablecoin transaction volumes are likely being used for non-speculative purposes, the report said.

A U.S. dollar coin balances on top of rocks

Markets

Lira-Backed TRYB Token Becomes World's Second-Largest Non-Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin

BiLira's TRYB stablecoin is pegged to the lira (TRY) and 100% backed by fiat reserves held in Turkish banks.

TRYB's market cap (Coingecko)

Finance

HashKey Capital's $100M Digital Asset Fund to Invest Significantly in Altcoins: Reuters

Less than half of the fund's investments will be in bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), the two largest cryptocurrencies, with the aim of diversifying allocations to smaller cap assets.

Hong Kong (Shutterstock)

Finance

Elon Musk's X Has Licenses in Multiple U.S. States to Process Payments, Including Crypto

Musk's social media platform, X, formerly Twitter, has obtained money or currency transmitter licenses in seven U.S. states including Maryland, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Elon Musk (Daniel Oberhaus/Flickr)

Markets

Bitcoin Holdings on Crypto Exchanges Dwindle to 2M, Fewest Since January 2018

The number of BTC held in wallets tied to crypto exchanges has declined by 4% this month, data tracked by CryptoQuant show.

Bitcoin's exchange reserve (CryptoQuant)

Markets

Bitcoin Slumps to $25.5K, With Price Now Probing August Low

A modestly softer-than-expected employment report Friday morning failed to provide a positive catalyst.

Bitcoin continues to slump (CoinDesk)

Policy

Grayscale Victory Against SEC Clears Path for Spot Bitcoin ETFs: Bernstein

The ruling increases the likelihood the SEC might approve all bitcoin spot ETF applications together, the report said.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis Lender Group Opposes ‘Wholly Insufficient’ DCG Deal

Creditors with $2.4 billion in claims against the bankrupt crypto lender could scupper an agreement made after months of wrangling.

Genesis filed for bankruptcy in January 2023 (Richard Mortel/Flickr)