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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Solana-Based Drift Raises $25M to Build 'SuperApp' for DeFi Trading

The DeFi platform plans to build an array of financial services tools, including spot and derivatives trading and a predictions market.

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Commerzbank to Offer Bitcoin, Ether Trading Through Crypto Finance

The service will be offered to existing Commerzbank corporate clients in Germany, and will start with bitcoin and ether trading.

Commerzbank Tower in financial district, Frankfurt, Germany (Marco Bottigelli/Getty)

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Stablecoins Are Becoming Systemically Important, Bernstein Says

Stablecoin supply is back to all-time highs with $170 billion in circulation, the report said.

The supply of stablecoins USDT and USDC  grew by $10 billion in a month, 10x research noted. (Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

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WisdomTree Pushes Further Into Tokenization With New Platform

The asset manager unveiled a platform to give users access to real-world assets.

WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg, left. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Dragonfly Capital Aims to Raise $500M Fund: Bloomberg

Dragonfly closed its third fund, worth $650 million, in April 2022, shortly before the onset of the crypto bear market.

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, and Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR protocol (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin's Rise Over $61K Could Signal Local Top, Binance Volume Indicates

Trading volume on the largest crypto exchange can signal peaks in the bitcoin price.

Binance volume inflows can mark local market tops. (Glassnode)

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Hemi Labs Raises $15M to Launch Modular Blockchain in Round Led by Binance Labs

The Hemi Network testnet is now live, with a mainnet launch planned for the fourth quarter.

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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Price Drops Below $60K Ahead of Expected Fed Rate Cut

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 18, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Sept. 18 2024 (CoinDesk)

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Former Coinbase Executives Introduce Stablecoin-Native Exchange TrueX

TrueX says it caters to rising client demand for truly secure segregation between execution and custody.

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Fintech Giant Revolut Said to Be Planning Stablecoin

Crypto-friendly Revolut is said to be quite far along in creating its own stablecoin, according to two people familiar with the plan.

Fintech giant Revolut is said to be planning to issue a stablecoin of its own.  (A. Aleksandravicius/Shutterstock)