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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Финансы

Banks Must Adopt Crypto or 'Be Extinct in 10 Years,' Eric Trump Says

The son of U.S. President Donald Trump said the current financial system is broken and blockchain technology is the fix.

Eric Trump, executive vice president of Trump Organization Inc., in New York in 2023. (Getty Images)

Рынки

Tokenized Apollo Credit Fund Makes DeFi Debut With Levered-Yield Strategy by Securitize, Gauntlet

The offering aims to make real-world asset tokens competitive with stablecoins for DeFi yield strategies, Securitize's Reid Simon said.

Statue of Apollo by Johann Baptist Hagenauer in Schönbrunn Palace Park, Germany

Технологии

Bitcoin Debate on Looser Data Limits Brings to Mind the Divisive Ordinals Controversy

Removing the blockchain's OP_RETURN size controls would allow more data to be embedded in transactions. Critics say this will only be used for spam.

Three people, including Peter Todd, sit at a panel discussion.

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BlackRock, BNY Team Up to Tokenize Shares of $150B Treasury Trust Fund, SEC Filing Shows

BlackRock will work with BNY Mellon in creating a new class of Distributed Ledger Technology shares for the fund.

(BlackRock)

Финансы

Telegram’s TON Takes On Real World Assets With Libre’s $500M Tokenized Bond Fund

Libre’s Telegram Bond Fund ($TBF) will offer accredited investors institutional-grade yield products that will also be available as collateral for on-chain borrowing and product development on TON,

Libre CEO Avtar Sehra sits on a chair in front of a microphone (Libre)

Финансы

UK Government Targets Exchanges and Stablecoins With New Draft Crypto Rules

The statutory instruments will see the creation of new regulated activities such as operating a cryptoasset trading exchange and stablecoin issuance.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Финансы

How $330M BTC Hacker May Have Doubled Down on Monero Derivatives

Monero rose by 45% after a flurry of spot buys, but open interest increased by 107%.

Hacker working on two laptops (Azamat E/Unsplash)

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Viant Technology Could Benefit From Buying Bitcoin, Eric Semler Says

The Semler Scientific chairman flagged the ad tech firm as ripe for a bitcoin treasury strategy amid stock struggles and cash stockpile.

A fire-destroyed, dead forest of leafless trees (Sergey Nikolaev/Unsplash)