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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Finance

Bittensor App Gets Hack Risk Cover From Nexus Mutual-Backed Insurance Firm Native

Team Rizzo, which operates Bittensor subnets and validator services, has snagged $25 million in on-chain cover from Native, a digital asset insurance specialist.

Native leaders: In order from left to right, these are James Asaad (Chairman), Dan Ross (CTO) and Ben David (CEO). (Native)

Markets

Bitcoin's Price Sell-Off Puts Focus on November's 'Runaway Gap' Below $80K in CME Futures

"Historically, CME gaps are filled eventually," one analyst said.

BTC CME Futures' gap from November. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

Policy

FBI Seeks Crypto Industry Help to Track, Block Laundering of Bybit Hack Funds

The FBI reiterated North Korean involvement, and identified the activity as TraderTraitor.

FBI symbol on side of a building.

Finance

Delta Blockchain Founder Kavita Gupta Unveils Cross Chain Interoperability Startup

Inclusive Layer aims to abstract away technical friction and create liquidity aggregation between the Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon and Arbitrum blockchains.

kavita gupta

Tech

Avalanche Visa Card Goes Live Aiming to Further the Mass Adoption of Crypto

Users can spend their Avalanche tokens (AVAX), wrapped AVAX as well as the USDT and USDC stablecoins at any store in person or online that takes Visa.

Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Wants Dollar-Backed Stablecoins to Register in U.S.: Bloomberg

“It shouldn’t be a free pass, right?” Jeremy Allaire, a co-founder of stablecoin issuer Circle said.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

XRP Keeps Rally Hope Alive as Price Holds 38.2% Fibonacci Level, DOGE Uptrend Ends

Fibonacci retracement levels serve as potential areas from which prices resume the primary trend.

XRP holds key Fib level to keep bulls' hopes alive. (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitdeer Q4 Loss Widens to $532M as Miner Focuses on ASIC Development for 2025 Growth

The bitcoin mining firm faced revenue declines but is betting on proprietary ASIC chips to drive future expansion.

(Bitdeer Group)