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

Lending Protocol Aave Processes $200M in Liquidation Without Adding to Bad-Debt Burden

Aave aced the market's stress test, processing millions in liquidations without taking on new bad debt.

Aave processed millions in liquidations Monday. (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

MicroStrategy Pauses Weekly Bitcoin Purchases Ahead of Earnings

The company reports fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Crypto Stocks Slide Pre-Market as U.S. Futures Point to More Bitcoin Losses

S&P 500 futures slid 1.4%, Dow Jones future fell 1.2% and futures on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 lost 1.7%

(fstop123)

Markets

Ether Volatility Explodes to Over 100% as Price Crashes

Ether's DVOL spiked above 100% during Asian hours as the crashing price saw traders chase put options.

Ether DVOL index. (TradingView, Deribit)

Markets

Stablecoin Market Surges Past $200B, Signaling Potential Crypto Price Upswing

The stablecoin market has grown by almost $40 billion since President Trump won the U.S. election.

Stablecoins: Market Cap Growth (CryptoQuant)

Markets

VIRTUAL Surges 28% as Upbit Listing Exposes the Token to Altcoin Savvy South Koreans

VIRTUAL is the native token of the AI launchpad Virtuals Protocol, a Base-native that recently expanded to Solana.

VIRTUAL price spike. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Apollo Unveils Tokenized Private Credit Fund as Blockchain Deepens TradFi Links

The Apollo Diversified Credit Fund digital offering marks the first integration for Securitize with the Solana and Ink blockchains.

Statue of Apollo by Johann Baptist Hagenauer in Schönbrunn Palace Park, Germany

Policy

Crypto Critic and Former Senator Bob Menendez Gets 11 Years in Prison for Bribery

Menendez is a former senator from New Jersey and a Democrat.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) exits Manhattan federal court on July 16 as a jury found Menendez guilty of accepting bribes. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)