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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Finanza

Solana Sees Arrival of Nomura, Brevan Howard-Affiliated Tokenization Firm Libre

Libre is unveiling a new tokenized offering, the blockchain-based Hamilton Lane SCOPE senior credit fund, which will be available on Solana and Ethereum-compatible chains.

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

Mercati

Ethereum Experienced Its Highest Inflationary Period in the Last Quarter: Fidelity

Layer-2 adoption has been impressive since the Dencun upgrade in March, with transactions on these blockchains increasing around 20%, the report said.

Ethereum (Unsplash)

Mercati

Ether Options Market Bets on Price Gains Post-Spot ETF Approval

Some analysts are forecasting an ether price swoon after ETFs begin trading in the U.S. The options market disagrees.

(gopixa)

Mercati

Bitcoin Nears $66K as Mt. Gox Moves $130M to Bitstamp

The defunct crypto exchange shuffled over $2.5 billion between wallets, some of which was sent to crypto exchange Bitstamp.

Mt. Gox Creditor Kolin Burges confronts Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk)

Mercati

Solana ETF Hopes, Rising Fundamentals Are Driving SOL Prices Higher, Traders Say

The total value of tokens locked on Solana has increased over 25% in a month, crossing the $5.28 billion mark to levels not seen since April 2022, data tracked by DefiLlama show.

Solana party in Lisbon (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Mercati

Popcat Crosses $1B, Mog Rallies as Solana, Ethereum Beta Bets Gain Favor

Popcat became the first cat-themed meme coin to hit $1 billion market capitalization, a resolved Polymarket bet shows.

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Politiche

India Unlikely to See Crypto Tax Reduction in Tuesday's Budget

An unexpected election result and last week's $230 million hack of crypto exchange WazirX appear to have dented any hopes of a reduction in the tax.

Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (left) and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Finanza

BitForex to Open for Withdrawals Following Chinese Police Investigation

The exchange has been offline since February.

(chinahbzyg/Shutterstock)

Finanza

Ryan Selkis Quits as Messari CEO Following Inflammatory Tweets

"This week was the first week in 6.5 years that my politics and rhetoric put the team in [harm's] way," he wrote. "As such, I have decided to step aside as CEO."

Messari's Ryan Selkis (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock for CoinDesk's Consensus)