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

Investment Advisers to Supplant Hedge Funds as Top BTC ETF Holders in 2025: CF Benchmarks

Investment advisers, the gatekeepers to retail and high-net-worth capital, are seen overtaking hedge fund managers in owning BTC and ETH ETFs next year.

Crystal ball. (GimpWorkshop/Pixabay)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: APT Falls 14.8% as Index Trades Lower Over Weekend

Avalanche joined Aptos as among the worst performers, falling 6%.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-12-23: laggards chart

Markets

CAT, MOG, SHIB Among Meme Tokens Added to Chainlink Services

Offering on various networks increases visibility and distribution for a token, helping drive investment and usage among network users.

(Chainlink)

Markets

MicroStrategy Buys a Further 5,262 BTC as Stock Joins Nasdaq 100

The purchase takes MicroStrategy's total holdings to 444,262 bitcoin.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor

Markets

Metaplanet Picks Up Record 620 Bitcoin as XRP Leads Market Slide

The purchase did little to buoy sentiment for bitcoin, which recorded its first seven-day loss since early November.

Bull and bear (Shutterstock)

Markets

HyperLiquid Sees Record $60M in USDC Flee as North Korea Said to Be Probing Perpetuals Exchange

North Korea-linked addresses, said to be possibly testing the exchange for weaknesses, have accrued losses exceeding $700,000, according to one observer.

USDC net flows on HyperLiquid. (Hashed Official/Dune)

Markets

What Happened to Bitcoin's Santa Rally?

Historically, the fourth quarter is the bitcoin's best; this year it's underperforming.

Santa Claus (Pixabay)

Markets

Long-Term Bitcoin Holders Have Sold 1M BTC Since September: Van Straten

Bitcoin is at the biggest discount to its record high since the U.S. election.

BTC: LTH Supply Change (Glassnode)

Finance

More Than Half of Crypto Tokens Debuted in 2024 Were Malicious: Blockaid

As much as $1.4 billion was lost to crypto scams and fraud in 2024, said the security firm.

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