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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Finance

Wunder.Social Raises $50M Ahead of Token Offer to Build Bot-Free Social Media

The company uses blockchain tech to verify users and eliminate bots, and shares ad revenue with users, allowing them to fund causes they care about

16:9 Bots (Eric Krull/Unsplash)

Finance

Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Begins Selling ETH as Losses Top $125M

It sold ETH at $1,465 after buying it at $3,259.

(World Liberty Financial)

Markets

First XRP ETF in U.S. Racks up $5M on Debut in Teucrium's 'Most Successful Launch'

The trading volume puts it among the top ETF product introductions, one market analyst said.

Fireworks explode in the night sky. (photogrammer7/Pixabay)

Finance

Kraken Teams Up With Mastercard to Introduce Crypto Debit Cards

The partnership will see the crypto exchange introduce physical and digital debit cards users will be able to use to spend their cryptocurrency throughout the world.

Mastercard debit card next to phone with price chart (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Markets

Powell Likely to Wait Until Trump Blinks, 'Dr. Doom' Roubini Says

Roubini, known as Dr. Doom for predicting the 2008 financial meltdown, warned against relying on the Fed for a swift resolution to market instability.

Nouriel Roubini

Markets

ARK Invest Buys the Coinbase Dip, Adding $30M of Shares in 3 Days

Cathie Wood's investment company bought 199,401 shares in the past three days as the stock slumped.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Likely to Become More Volatile After Entering $70K–$80K 'Air Pocket'

Low supply concentration in this range may lead to heightened volatility.

URPD: BTC (Glassnode)

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Web3

DeFi Game Aavegotchi to Abandon Polygon, Migrate to Coinbase’s Base

The migration aims to improve user experience, marketplace access, onboarding and comes amid sharp drops in user activity and total value locked on Polygon.

Photo of the Aavegotchi booth at EthDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk(

Finance

CoinShares Head of Asset Management Frank Spiteri Has Left the Company: Sources

Spiteri worked for the crypto asset manager in London for over five years.

(Paul Brennan/Pixabay)