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

Bitcoin, Ether Prices Ease as SHIB Drives Gains in Meme Tokens

A rally in meme tokens such as dogecoin and shiba inu is primarily driven by Asian traders in response to bullish sentiment around ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), one trader said.

Bull and Bear (nosheep/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Prime Broker FalconX Starts FX Desk With Hires From BCB Group

The offering will provide crypto trading firms, exchanges and brokers with access to 20 FX pairs.

FalconX CEO Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)

Markets

Floki Developers Look to Improve Token Fundamentals With New Trading Bot

The bot charges a 1% fee on every transaction and 50% of the collected fees will be used to buy FLOKI on the open market, adding to demand for the token.

(Christal Yuen/Unsplash)

Markets

Caitlyn Jenner Meme Coin Sows Confusion as Observers Question Its Provenance

JENNER tokens scored over $100 million in trading volume less than 24 hours after going live. But punters are unclear if it's related to the real Caitlyn Jenner.

(Caitlyn Jenner X)

Markets

Ethereum Meme Coins PEPE, MOG Hit Lifetime Highs on Ether ETF Filing Approvals

Ether surged more than bitcoin over the weekend on renewed optimism for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

Pepe the Frog Meme Gallery (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Coinbase Slugs It Out With U.S. SEC in Effort to Get Key Crypto Question Answered

The exchange filed another response in court in its ongoing request to appeal a single legal point at the heart of the industry's dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Coinbase CEO Brian Amstrong and SEC Chair Gary Gensler

Finance

Crypto Exchange OKX Withdraws Hong Kong License Application

The exchange's action follows that of Huobi Hong Kong and several other applicants earlier this month.

Hong Kong (Dan Freeman/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Rally Cools Following U.S. Ether ETF Listing Approval

One trader said ether’s sell-off on positive news is typical "buy the rumors, sell the facts" behavior.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

Markets

Bitcoin Drops Below $68K, Ether Slumps in Sudden Crypto Sell-Off as ETH ETF Decision Looms

The sell-off was broad-based, with DOGE, SHIB, AVAX, LINK diving more than 4% in less than an hour.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on May 23 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Sees Strongest Bull Momentum in 3 Years as ETF Deadline Nears

Ether's price jumped 18% in six days on mounting speculation the U.S. SEC will approve a spot ETH exchange-traded fund (ETF). Some traders expect it to hit $5,000 by the end of June.

(real-napster/Pixabay)