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

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: DOT Falls 5.1% as Index Declines From Thursday

Litecoin joined Polkadot as an underperformer, falling 3.8%.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-12-06: laggards chart

Markets

U.S. Added 227K Jobs in November, Topping Estimates for 200K

Friday morning's jobs report is one of the last pieces of key economic data the Fed will see prior to its mid-December interest-rate decision.

United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C (ElevenPhotographs/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

U.S. Ether ETFs Post Record Inflows, Bitcoin ETFs Add Most in Two Weeks

The investment interest comes after ether added about 60% in a month.

Photo of bundles of dollars

Markets

Crypto Markets Have Benefited From a Positive Environment Since U.S. Election: Citi

The nomination of crypto-friendly Paul Atkins as chair of the SEC provided the final boost that propelled bitcoin through the $100,000 level, the report said.

Citibank logo

Tech

Everyone Wants a Piece of the Bitcoin Pie, Now the AI Bots Are Coming for It Too

AI-focused Ethereum layer-2 Mode is the latest network to bridge to Bitcoin in an attempt to get access to deep wells of liquidity held in BTC.

(Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Markets

MicroStrategy Leveraged ETFs' Impact on Crypto Markets Is Growing: JPMorgan

Leveraged MicroStrategy ETFs attracted $3.4 billion of inflows in November, the report said.

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RENDER Gains 14.7% as Index Moves Higher

Litecoin joined Render as a top performer, gaining 9.7%.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-12-05: leaders chart

Finance

Chainalysis Taps Founder Jonathan Levin as CEO

The crypto analytics company's former leader, Michael Gronager, went on leave in late September.

Chainalyis CEO Jonathan Levin

Markets

U.S. Crypto Stocks Surge in Pre-Market Trading as Bitcoin Tops $100K

MARA Holdings climbed on completing an $850 million offering of a zero-coupon convertible senior note.

Wall Street bull