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

Sam Altman’s World Chain Adds Native USDC Stablecoin and Circle’s Cross-Chain Service

World Network also integrates Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2) to move USDC across a range of blockchains.

Sam Altman

Finance

PayPal Brings Its Stablecoin to Stellar for Cross-Border Remittances, Payments Financing

PayPal USD (PYUSD) plans to use Stellar for new payments and remittance use cases, as well as bringing PayFi options to millions of users and merchants.

PayPal logo on iphone screen (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)

Finance

Fitness Firm Interactive Strength Plans to Raise Up to $500M to Buy Fetch.AI's FET Tokens

The company is already buying some of the tokens after raising $55 million of new capital.

Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch

Markets

Crypto Exchange Bullish Files for U.S. IPO as Digital Asset Enthusiasm Mounts: FT

Bullish filed confidential papers with the SEC as the Trump administration eases regulations and promotes digital assets.

Peter Thiel holds a microphone while speaking at The Cambridge Union.

Policy

U.K. Regulator Names Sarah Pritchard as Deputy CEO to Help Oversee Crypto, Stablecoins

Pritchard's elevation is a sign of the FCA's focus on developing a comprehensive regulatory environment for the industry.

Head and shoulders shot of Sarah Pritchard (FCA)

Markets

Cardano's ADA Gains 3%, Buoyed by Inclusion in Nasdaq's Crypto Index

The $0.70 level is a key psychological support zone for ADA's price stability, CoinDesk Research's technical analysis shows.

ADA established a 8.8% trading range between $0.66 and $0.72 before facing a sharp 3.3% correction in recent hours.

Policy

South Korea's Ruling Party Wants to Allow Companies to Issue Stablecoins: Bloomberg

Under a proposed law, companies would be able issue their own tokens provided they meet equity capital requirements and can guarantee refunds through reserves.

South Korea's National Assembly

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Finance

Ethereum Advocate William Mougayar to Lead Ecosystem's New Profile-Raising Initiative

The Ethereum Market Research Centre (EMRC) is a community-led initiative aimed at bridging the education gap for institutional and professional audiences.

William Mougayar

Tech

Bitcoin Core 30 to Increase OP_RETURN Data Limit After Developer Debate Concludes

Bitcoin Core 30 is scheduled to be implemented in October.

Source code from the master branch of open-source Bitcoin Core code repository on GitHub. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)