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

Tether-Issued Stablecoin USDT's Market Share Grows to 75% as Market Cap Tops $118B

The largest stablecoin's market cap has almost doubled in two years, while key rivals declined and new entrants have yet to pose a challenge.

Market capitalization of the top stablecoins (Token Terminal)

Finance

DYdX to Debut Perpetual Futures on Prediction Markets as DEX Seeks to Raise Profile

Decentralized finance needs to develop a unique offering relative to centralized venues, dYdX Foundation CEO Charles d'Haussy said.

Charles d'Haussy. (https://charlesdhaussy.com/)

Markets

Bhutan, Tiny Country With $3B GDP, Holds Over $780M in Bitcoin

Bhutan’s state-owned Druk Holdings touts digital assets as one of its focus investment groups.

Bhutan (Sittichok Glomvinya/Pixabay)

Finance

UK Finance, Member Banks See Benefits During Experimental Phase of a Tokenization, CBDC Platform

Barclays, Citi UK, HSBC and Natwest participated in the Regulated Liability Network test.

(Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

Finance

BitGo Unveils Token Management Service for Crypto Foundations

Big names like Worldcoin and LayerZero are among the first customers of the Token Management Service, announced on Monday.

BitGo crop

Web3

Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Comes Out of Social Media Retirement to Take a Swing at GameFi

Flappy Birds is back, but without the support of its creator.

(engin akyurt/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Latin American Crypto Exchange Ripio Unveils DeFi Credit Card With Visa

The card will allow users to access up to 30% of blocked assets in a liquidity pool.

Ripio CEO Sebastian Serrano (Ripio)

Markets

XRP, DOGE Lead Market Gains as Bitcoin Dips Under $58K

XRP started to rise on Thursday after investment fund Grayscale launched a professional fund that holds the token in the U.S., while DOGE gained on no apparent catalyst.

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have been riding along relatively flat terrain.  (Marianna Lutkova/Unsplash)

Policy

English High Court Rules Tether's USDT Stablecoin Counts as Property

USDT attracts property rights as it can be the subject of tracing and can constitute trust property in the same way as other property, a judge in England declared.

Tether 's logo painted on a wooden background.

Finance

YieldNest Unveils First Liquid-Restaking Token on BNB Chain as Return-Boosting Strategy Gains Ground

Users will also earn "Seeds" points when restaking, which can eventually be converted into token airdrops.

YieldNest rolls out restaking token (aliata/Unsplash)