Sheldon Reback

Regional Head of Europe

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.

Latest from Sheldon Reback

Markets

Solana ETF Hopes, Rising Fundamentals Are Driving SOL Prices Higher, Traders Say

The total value of tokens locked on Solana has increased over 25% in a month, crossing the $5.28 billion mark to levels not seen since April 2022, data tracked by DefiLlama show.

Jul 22, 2024

Solana party in Lisbon (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Popcat Crosses $1B, Mog Rallies as Solana, Ethereum Beta Bets Gain Favor

Popcat became the first cat-themed meme coin to hit $1 billion market capitalization, a resolved Polymarket bet shows.

Jul 22, 2024

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

India Unlikely to See Crypto Tax Reduction in Tuesday's Budget

An unexpected election result and last week's $230 million hack of crypto exchange WazirX appear to have dented any hopes of a reduction in the tax.

Jul 22, 2024

Finance

BitForex to Open for Withdrawals Following Chinese Police Investigation

The exchange has been offline since February.

Jul 19, 2024

Finance

Ryan Selkis Quits as Messari CEO Following Inflammatory Tweets

"This week was the first week in 6.5 years that my politics and rhetoric put the team in [harm's] way," he wrote. "As such, I have decided to step aside as CEO."

Jul 19, 2024