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

MakerDAO Boosts U.S. Treasury Holdings by $700M to Back DAI Stablecoin With Real-World Assets

The purchase is the latest step to increase the role of real-world assets in the platform’s DAI stablecoin reserve.

Rune Christensen, fundador de MakerDAO. (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Starknet Foundation Appoints Meta Veteran Oliva as First CEO

The executive will help the non-profit promote growth within the Starknet ecosystem.

Headshot of Starknet Foundation CEO Diego Oliva

Policy

Central Banks Propose CBDC, Stablecoin Standards With Amazon, Grab Running Trials

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in collaboration with the IMF and other central banks, is proposing common conditions for retail payments with digital money on a distributed ledger.

Amazon was selected to develop an e-commerce app for a digital euro. (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Exchange BIT Unveils Options Market for Cardano's ADA Token

BIT's unified margin system allows ADA holders to trade options at a discount.

BIT lists options tied to Cardano's ADA token. (Wance Paleri/Unsplash)

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Rallies as TradFi Players Jump Into Crypto

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 21, 2023.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Robo-Adviser Hedgehog Launches as App With Gemini as Custodian

Parent company Hedgehog Technologies raised $1.6 million in August 2021 to build the platform.

Close-up photo of a hedgehog in a field or garden.

Finance

Tether Issues USDT on Kava Blockchain; KAVA Token Climbs 5%

Tether is looking to improve the stablecoin's liquidity across multiple blockchains.

A kava farm (Scot NElson/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

Arpa Network Goes Live on Ethereum Mainnet

Arpa Network will also initiate the minting of the remaining 500 million arpa (ARPA) tokens that have been reserved for staking rewards out of its max supply.

(Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

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Finance

Crypto Sites Are Naming Fake Dispute Resolution Organizations: Canada’s Securities Regulator

Most organizations the regulator mentions have little or no online presence and, with one exception, aren’t working with any major crypto platforms.

Canada's regulatory situation is both clear and more conservative than in the U.S. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

Policy

Stablecoins, DeFi Likely to Be SEC’s Next Targets in U.S. Crypto Crackdown: Berenberg

If USD Coin is targeted by regulators, the impact on Coinbase revenue could be significant, the report said

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall