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

Crypto Traders Remain Cautious About Downside Risks in Bitcoin, Ether; SOL Stands Out

Options tied to bitcoin and ether show a bias for puts, according to QCP Capital.

Frustrated trader. (Getty Images)

Markets

Crypto Fund Outflows Were Most Since March Last Week as Bitcoin ETFs Bled

Bitcoin lost over 8% of its value during the week, falling below $54,000 on Sept. 6 having traded around $59,000 on Sept. 2

Digital Asset Fund Flows, Week to Sept. 6 (CoinShares)

Finance

Restaking Protocol Ether.fi Selects Scroll as Layer-2 Network for Settlement

Scroll will be used to settle transactions on Ether.fi's Cash card.

Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)

Policy

Binance Unit Tokocrypto Is Third Crypto Exchange to Score Full License in Indonesia

More than 30 exchanges still have applications pending.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

BCB Group's Chief Compliance Officer to Exit in Latest Senior Management Departure

Natasha Powell is leaving the crypto payments firm. She will continue to support the group as a non-exec director of BCB Payments.

Kraken has hired Natasha Powell as U.K. head of compliance: sources. (BCB Group)

Markets

Bitcoin Bottom In? BTC Order Book Liquidity Says Yes

Liquidity both close to and further away from the going market rate has declined, hinting at an impending bull reversal.

Bitcoin's order book indicates the price may be nearing a market bottom. (joakant/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Woo X Introduces Copy Trading, With a Twist

The exchange’s version of social trading comes with a countertrade feature as well as more transparent and equitable profit sharing.

Woo X Chief Operating Officer Willy Chuang (Woo X)

Markets

Bitcoin Pumps, Then Dumps Below $54K as Jobs Report Spurs Crypto Volatility

The price swing liquidated nearly $50 million of leveraged derivatives positions across all cryptocurrencies in one hour, CoinGlass data shows.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk)

Finance

Sonic SVM, Gaming Project on Solana Blockchain, Plans $12.8M Node Sale

The blockchain project is taking advantage of an increasingly popular fundraising method known as "node sales" just months after a traditional $12 million fundraise.

Chris Zhu, CEO and co-founder at Sonic SVM, onstage this week at Korea Blockchain Week (Sonic SVM)

Markets

Crypto Market Lacks Major Near-Term Catalysts, JPMorgan Says

Total crypto market cap was $2.02 trillion at the end of August, a 24% decline from this year's peak of $2.67 trillion in March, the report said.

(Shutterstock)