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 and collapse. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. Before that, he worked 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

TradFi fund manager Baillie Gifford introduces Solana, Ethereum tokenized fund with BNY

Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY) is denominated in dollars, and gives eligible investors access to an actively managed, short-duration portfolio of public corporate bonds.

BNY office (BNY)

Markets

As bitcoin, altcoin prices gain, derivatives signal skepticism over a sustained rally

Analysts noted bitcoin is stuck between key support near $60,000 and resistance around $68,000, and a bearish chart pattern could send prices toward $54,000.

Rendering of a tunnel with walls of zeros and ones disappearing into the distance.

Markets

Geopolitical relief meets the Warsh Fed: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting June 22.

Azadi Monument in Tehran surrounded by Iranian flags.

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Tech

Taiko halts its Ethereum layer-2 network after a bridge exploit, token dives

An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year's biggest bridge hacks. Fast containment kept the damage small.

Hacker sitting in a room (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin price may be headed to $54,000, says analyst who forecast October's all-time high

Doctor Profit, a widely followed crypto analyst, says bitcoin is forming a “bear flag” pattern.

An analyst sits at his desk with multiple screens and annotated charts.

Markets

How STRC lost its par: The timeline behind Strategy's preferred-stock meltdown

From a bond buyback and dwindling cash reserves to a bitcoin bear market, the sequence of events that turned STRC's par-value challenge into a marketwide debate.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

Finance

GoMining challenges Jack Dorsey's Square with payments system designed around bitcoin

GoMining unveiled a software development kit and programmable access for its bitcoin payment protocol GoBTC Pay, allowing merchants to accept BTC for everyday purchases.

Mark Zalan, GoMining CEO (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Smart-contract and DeFi coins lead losses as bitcoin wilts for 4th straight day

Concerns about STRC, the dividend-paying preferred stock from Strategy continue to dominate market sentiment.

A trader sits in front of multiple screens holding his head. (Unsplash+/Getty Images)