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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Markets

A ruble stablecoin outpaced market leaders last year despite international sanctions

A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both USDT and USDC over the past 12 months.

The Russian flag waves against an almost cloudless sky. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Zcash governance clash tanked the token. Here's why it may not be as big as it seems.

While Electric Coin Company’s development team departed to form a new company, it will still be working on Zcash.

Zcash chart (CoinDesk data)

Finance

Tokenized Brazilian credit card debt offers 13% yield through BlackOpal's GemStone platform

The initiative leverages the Plume Network to tokenize credit card receivables, while giving merchants immediate access to cash.

A wallet full of credit cards

Markets

Digital assets to move from speculation to infrastructure in 2026, B. Riley says

Regulatory clarity, tokenization and bank adoption will push crypto firms from balance-sheet accumulation toward real operations.

Stylized network of light focii covering Earth (geralt/Pixabay)

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Markets

Bitcoin falls below $90,000 as altcoins slide in thin trading: Crypto Markets Today

Bitcoin retreated to five-day lows during as repeated failures to break through $94,500 reinforced a tight trading range.

Liquidity void in crypto persists (Simon Hurry/Unsplash)

Markets

Aptos' APT falls amid a decline in wider crypto markets

The token retreated in quiet trading conditions as it remained tightly coupled with broader crypto market movements.

"APT Price Drops 2.59% to $1.88 Amid Extended Consolidation and Low Volume"

Markets

BNB falls below $900 even after network upgrade, ecosystem developments as market declines

The BNB Chain's layer-2 network, opBNB, recently completed a major upgrade, the Fourier hard fork, which doubled transaction throughput.

BNB Drops 2.2% Below $900, Signaling Continued Weakness Amid Descending Channel

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Tech

The Protocol: Ledger customer data breached from Global-e platform

Also: Starknet goes down, Vitalik Buterin's goals for Ethereum and ETH staking queues cleared.

Hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop showing trading graphs, data. (Kanchanara / Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Fireblocks expands into crypto financial reporting with $130 million TRES acquisition

TRES helps companies generate compliant financial records from blockchain activity, enabling them to meet audit standards and regulatory requirements.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat. (Fireblocks, modified by CoinDesk)