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

Smart Contract Platform Llama Raises $6M From Investors Including Polygon, Aave Founders

The firm aims to allow blockchain governance protocols to encode role-based functionality.

Llama co-founders Austin Green and Shreyas Hariharan (Llama)

Markets

First Mover Americas: FTX Wants to Sell Its GBTC

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 6, 2023.

Grayscale ad (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

SOL Drops 5% as FTX Estate Transfers Tokens to Binance, Kraken

The $30 million transfer takes the total SOL moved to exchanges to $102 million, the most out of any liquid asset, while the token's price is near the highest in a year.

Then-CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried and CEO of Solana Labs Anatoly Yakovenko (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty on All 7 Counts

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 3, 2023.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Is Up 70% a Year After FTX Debacle, but 'Alameda Gap' in Liquidity Persists

The 'Alameda gap' refers to the worsening of order-book liquidity following the collapse of the FTX group a year ago.

(CoinDesk, modified)

Policy

UK Regulator Publishes Guidance for Crypto Marketing Regime

The Financial Conduct Authority’s new ad regime took effect in October.

FCA building with logo (FCA)

Policy

UK's National Crime-Fighting Agency Seeks Six Crypto Investigators

A crime bill passed last week gives law enforcement agencies more powers to seize and freeze crypto.

A U.K. policeman seen from behind stands in the middle of road

Policy

PayPal Faces SEC Subpoena Over Its PYUSD Stablecoin

In August, PayPal said it would introduce its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD.

paypal logo on a smartphone booting up the payments app (Marques Thomas/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Swiss National Bank to Work With SIX Digital Exchange, 6 Banks on Wholesale CBDC Pilot

The Helvetia Phase III pilot will create a tokenized version of the franc as a settlement instrument between financial institutions for digital assets on the exchange.

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Finance

St.Galler Kantonalbank Works With SEBA Bank to Offer Swiss Customers Bitcoin, Ethereum

The first tier of customers will be wealth-management clients; retail customers are next in line, and other coins and staking services are planned, said SEBA Bank's Christian Bieri.

SEBA Bank lobby