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

Elliptic Warns of Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Scams Laundering Through Crypto

The 2025 Typologies Report outlines laundering tactics, mule account patterns and cross-chain transfers.

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Markets

BNB Slips Below $1K as Crypto Market Drops, Fear Index Nears ‘Fear’

The decline in BNB comes as sentiment remains poor, with the Crypto Fear and Greed Index nearing "fear" and the average RSI indicating oversold conditions.

BNB chart (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Circle Examines Ways to Reverse Transactions to Counter Fraud, Disputes: FT

Circle is "thinking through ... whether or not there's the possibility of reversibility of transactions," President Heath Tarbert said in an interview

Circle Internet President Heath Tarbert

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Finance

Securitize Expands to Sei, Debuting With Apollo’s $112M Tokenized Credit Fund

The fund is a feeder into Apollo's private credit strategy, which includes corporate lending and dislocated credit. It's open only to qualified investors.

A trader sists in front on screens. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: AVAX Open Interest and Price Tanks, HYPE Underperforms

Bitcoin fell, nearly erasing gains from Wednesday’s rebound, while ether slid more than 3% to trigger large liquidations.

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Policy

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Warns Against Unregulated Stablecoin Issuance

The warning comes after AnchorX, a Hong Kong-based firm, announced a stablecoin called AxCNH, pegged to the offshore Chinese yuan.

Hong Kong harbor during a sunrise (Manson Yim/Unsplash)

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Finance

Stablecoin Startup RedotPay Attains Unicorn Status With $47M Raise for Regulatory Push

The Hong Kong company is scaling stablecoin-powered cards, wallets and payout services with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy and Vertex.

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Finance

Cloudburst Raises $7M Series A to Scale Off-Chain Crypto Intelligence Platform

The round was led by Borderless Capital with participation from Strategic Cyber Ventures, CoinFund, Coinbase Ventures, Bloccelerate VC and In-Q-Tel.

M2 Money Supply Continues to Grow (Shutterstock)