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

Mantra to Tokenize $500M Real Estate Assets for UAE Builder MAG Group

In March, the Middle-East-focused Mantra raised $11 million for its real-world tokenization efforts.

John Patrick Mullin, CEO of Mantra (Left) and Talal Moafaq Al Gaddah, CEO of MAG Lifestyle Development (Right) (Mantra)

Policy

Binance Executive's Health Deteriorates in Jail as Nigeria Money-Laundering Trial Proceeds

The first Securities and Exchange Commission witness has been cross-examined and the money laundering trial adjourned till July 5.

Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of crime compliance, is one of two executives detained in Nigeria. (Shutterstock/Consensus)

Finance

Pump.Fun Overtakes Ethereum With $2M in Daily Revenue to Take No. 1 Position

More than 11,500 tokens were created on Pump.fun on Monday.

Pump.fun overtakes Ethereum in revenue (Fikri Rasyid/Unsplash)

Finance

Worldcoin Hires Former Google, X and Apple Execs to Beef Up Privacy, Security

Tools for Humanity (TFH), a contributor to the Worldcoin project, hired four executives to advance its mission to ensure a more just economic system, the company said on Tuesday.

An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)

Policy

Paxos Gains Singapore Approval for Stablecoin Issuance With DBS Providing Custody

The Monetary Authority of Singapore released its stablecoin framework last year.

Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Spot ETFs to See Up to $5B of Net Inflows in First Six Months: Gemini

Ether’s market value relative to bitcoin is close to multiyear lows, and strong inflows into spot ETH ETFs could spark a catch-up trade, the report said.

SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ethereum Products See Highest Outflows Since 2022 Ahead of Ether ETFs

The ETH products recorded $60 million in net outflows each week, the most since August 2022.

Ethereum ETFs drew in inflows despite ETH's plunge on Monday.(Shutterstock)

Finance

Circle Snags First Stablecoin License Under EU's New MiCA Crypto Rules

Circle Mint France will issue the euro-denominated EURC stablecoin and USDC in the European Union in compliance with MiCA.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Anchorage Crypto Custody Clients Get Investment Returns Via Deal With Cumberland-Backed Hashnote

Hashnote Harbor will enable clients to earn yields on digital commodities without the assets ever leaving the custody of Anchorage Digital.

Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley (CoinDesk)

Policy

Marine Le Pen's Far-Right National Rally Party Leads in First Round of French Election

The new parliament is likely to be more polarised between left and right wings, making crypto policy development uncertain and difficult, said Mark Foster, the EU policy lead at the Crypto Council for Innovation.

(Pourya Gohari / Unsplash)