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

Ondo Finance's $185M Tokenized U.S. Treasury Offering Joins the XRP Ledger

The expansion allows institutional investors to mint and redeem OUSG tokens around the clock using Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Short-Term BTC Holders Quit, CME Open Interest Slid by Record During Monday's Price Drop

As observed by many metrics, Monday's capitulation in bitcoin looks like a textbook local bottom.

Chart of one-day change in CME bitcoin open interest. (Glassnode)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Hive Digital to Buy Paraguay Site From Bitfarms for $85M

The acquisition of the site in Yguazú, Paraguay will increase the company's hashrate to 25 EH/s from 6 Eh/s by September.

A photo of four mining rigs

Tech

Elon Musk Said to Propose Blockchain Use at D.O.G.E. for Efficiency: Bloomberg

Representatives of the Department of Government Efficiency have spoken with leaders of several public blockchains, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk arrives to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Finance

Travala, Crypto-Native Travel Website, Said to Receive Unsolicited Takeover Approach

Discussions are at an early stage and the Binance-backed travel platform may decide to remain independent, people close to the matter said.

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Markets

MicroStrategy Adds 10.1K Bitcoin to Holdings, Launches Preferred Stock Sale for Additional Buying Power

It's the 12th consecutive week the company has purchased bitcoin.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Policy

Bitpanda, OKX, Crypto.com Secure MiCA Licenses as Exchanges Eye 450M-Strong Market

The crypto exchanges join Boerse Stuttgart Digital and other as the legislation opens the doors to markets across the European Union.

German flag on top of building (Getty Images / Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Bitdeer, CleanSpark, Core Scientific Initiated at Outperform by KBW

The three companies offer varying degrees of exposure to the world's largest cryptocurrency, the report said.

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