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

Coinbase Rally on the Back of XRP Court Ruling Is Overdone: Berenberg

The surge in the crypto exchange’s share price was driven largely by investors who saw the decision as a representing a rejection of the SEC’s argument in the lawsuit it filed against Coinbase in June, the report said.

Coinbase sticker on a Macintosh laptop

Markets

Argentina's First Bitcoin Futures Contract Officially Goes Live

The product was approved by the South American country’s National Securities Commission in April.

Argentina flag (Unsplash)

Finance

Hedge Funds' Long-Term Crypto Interest Remains Robust Even as Proportion Investing Drops: PwC

The percentage of funds with crypto exposure fell to 29% from 37% last year, though no traditional hedge funds plans to decrease their exposure in 2023.

PwC logo on the side of a building

Tech

Zero-Knowledge Rollup ZKM Sets Out to Make Ethereum 'Universal Settlement Layer'

With funding from the foundation that oversees development of the Metis layer-2 Ethereum protocol, ZKM is developing a hybrid rollup that combines an Optmistic rollup and Zero-Knowledge rollup into one.

Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)

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Markets

Coinbase Cut to Underweight Ahead of Earnings by Barclays

The bank said it sees few positive drivers for the crypto exchange’s share price in the near term.

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Markets

Bitcoin Options Traders Shrug Off Post-CPI Choppy Price Action

The mood in the options market remains positive even as the cryptocurrency struggles to build upside momentum on the back of a bullish U.S. inflation report.

BTC's choppy price action. (CoinDesk/HIghCharts.com)

Finance

Telegram Merchants Gain Access to In-App Crypto Payments for First Time

Wallet, which is built on the TON blockchain, is allowing merchants to integrate cryptocurrency into the bots they use to accept payments in the messaging app.

Telegram app on smartphone (Shutterstock)

Tech

Polygon Proposes Token Switch From MATIC to POL for More Utility

If approved by the community, POL will work as a multipurpose token that can be used to validate multiple Polygon-based networks.

(Polygon Labs)

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Policy

Coinbase Lawyers Argue Biden Student Loans Ruling Aids Defense Against SEC

Asserting powers over the $1 trillion crypto industry would be of major significance, just like canceling student debt was, the exchange’s lawyers argue.

Coinbase says a student loan case could sway its SEC suit. (Victoria Pickering/Flickr)

Finance

DeepBook Brings Centralized-Style Orders for Decentralized Finance on Sui Network

The DeepBook central limit order book will allow traders to view order flow and market depth on Sui.

(Austin Distel/Unsplash)