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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Policy

Curve Finance CEO Egorov Sued by 3 DeFi-Focused Venture Capital Firms

A complaint filed in San Francisco alleges Egorov defrauded ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures and 1kx.

French authorities sentenced two men to jail for using crypto to fund terrorism in Syria (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Trades at Narrow Discount on Binance.US

News of a possible halt in U.S. dollar withdrawals sparked an increase in bitcoin trading as customers looked to remove their assets from the exchange, one observer said.

(AhmadArdity/Pixabay)

Finance

Hut 8 Says Repairs to Damaged Crypto Mining Equipment Are Taking Longer Than Expected

The delays are impairing the miner's hashrate and bitcoin production.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)

Markets

Crypto Exchange OKX Burns $258M of OKB Tokens in Record Move

OKX periodically buys back and burns the tokens to reduce their supply on the open market.

(Jp Valery/Unsplash)

Policy

Cardano Developer Rejects SEC Claim Its ADA Token Is a Security

“Under no circumstances is ADA a security under U.S. securities laws,” IOG said in a release.

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall

Markets

Coinbase Shares Are 'Uninvestable' in the Near Term: Berenberg

The investment bank cut its price target on the stock to $39 from $55.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Aave-Developed Lens Protocol Raises $15M to Expand 'Social Layer' of Web3

Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal joined the round as angel investors.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Traders Shrug Off U.S. SEC's Action Against Binance, Coinbase

Implied volatility metrics show no signs of panic after the SEC's filed lawsuits against the two cryptocurrency exchanges.

(geralt/Pixabay)

Policy

Social Media Targeted in EU Consumer Group Complaint About Crypto Ads

BEUC wants Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to prohibit influencers from promoting crypto.

Consumer lobby BEUC is worried about misleading social media crypto ads. (Anna/Pixabay)

Policy

Crypto Exchange Bittrex’s Customer-Repayment Plan Faces U.S. Government Objection

If successful, it wouldn’t be the first time the state has scuppered a crypto bankruptcy proposal.

Bittrex filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. (Marco Verch/Flickr)