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 Whales Bought $11B of BTC in Two Weeks as Confidence Grew, Glassnode Says

Whales are boosting their coin stashes, showing confidence in BTC's prospects despite lingering macroeconomic uncertainty.

A whale leaping out of the sea. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Markets

Like DOGE, XRP Going Vertical Is a Good Indicator of Market Froth, Bitcoin Peaks

Since 2017, XRP has tended to surge in late stages of the bitcoin bull run, marking a point where BTC ultimately peaked.

Photo of wave froth on a sandy beach. (justus_joseph/Pixabay)

Markets

Trump Threatens Bigger Tariffs on EU, Canada 'if They Work to Harm U.S.'

President Donald Trump warned he'll impose larger import tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they collaborate to harm the U.S. economy.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Market Could Heat Up as BTC Price Approaches $90K

The level will remain a potential area of volatility following Friday's quarterly options settlement.

Fireworks explode in the night sky. (photogrammer7/Pixabay)

Finance

Fidelity Investments Prepares to Unveil Its Own Stablecoin: FT

A Fidelity stablecoin could fill the role of cash in the blockchain-based version of its U.S. dollar money market fund

(Shutterstock/Jonathan Weiss, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Celo Migration to Layer-2 Network Is Done, Bringing in New Era for the Blockchain

The transition ends a long journey beginning back in July 2023 and a fierce competition, won by Optimism, convincing the Celo ecosystem to build with their tech.

Celo co-founders Marek Olszewski and Rene Reinsberg (Celo Foundation)

Finance

Abracadabra Drained of $13M in Exploit Targeting Cauldrons Tied to GMX Liquidity Tokens

The attack targeted pools tied to GMX liquidity tokens, specifically “cauldrons” using GM tokens as collateral.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Markets

BlackRock, Securitize Expand $1.7B Tokenized Money Market Fund BUIDL to Solana

The fund now has $1.7 billion in assets and is spread across seven different blockchains as BlackRock expands its presence in the crypto space.

BlackRock headquarters (Shutterstock)