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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Tech

Figment Outpaces Rivals in Ether Staking Growth, Lido's Decline Eases Dominance Concerns

The shift points to a staking ecosystem that is maturing. For Ethereum, this diversification may be a sign of improved blockchain health.

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Markets

Ether-Led Rally Pushed Crypto Market Cap to $3.7T in July: JPMorgan

Ether outperformed last month as volumes, ETF flows hit records, the report said.

Ether spot ETFs to see same sources of demand as bitcoin versions but on lower scale: Bernstein. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

Markets

Markets Today: ADA, SOL Lead Futures Market Activity, SHIB Burn Rate Explodes

Futures tied to ADA and SOL see increased activity as BTC hits record high.

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Markets

Yen Rises Against Bitcoin, Dollar as Scott Bessent Predicts Bank of Japan Rate Hike

The yen is no longer the most attractive funding currency, and the currency's strength may not necessarily lead to broad-based risk aversion, one expert said.

Close up of the red circle at the center of the Japanese flag. (DavidRockDesign/Pixabay)

Markets

Decentralized Data Foundry Sapien Announces Token Generation Event on Base

The TGE will unlock 25% of the total 1 billion SAPIEN tokens.

Lighter sees $250 million in outflows following its token generation event. (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

Markets Today: OKB, FART Surge as Ether Races Toward Record Highs

Open interest in ether futures has increased significantly, indicating bullish sentiment among traders.

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Finance

OKX Slashes OKB Token Supply by 50% With $7.6B Burn, Price Surges

OKX’s record-breaking $7.6 billion OKB burn halved the circulating supply and sparked triple-digit price spike, and shifts focus to driving adoption of its X Layer blockchain.

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Markets

Kazakhstan’s Fonte Capital Introduces Central Asia’s First Spot Bitcoin ETF

The BETF fund, custodied by BitGo, will give investors in central Asia regulated, physically backed access to bitcoin through the Astana International Exchange.

National flag of Kazakhstan. (Unsplash)