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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Markets

U.S. CPI Rose a Faster-Than-Expected 0.4% in August; Core Rate in Line

The headline news is sending markets, bitcoin included, lower, but isn't likely to derail the Fed from trimming interest rates next week.

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Markets

Crypto Market Today: MNT, HASH Shine as Majors Look to U.S. Inflation Report

Market gains may accelerate if the CPI prints below estimates, strengthening the chance of a Federal Reserve rate cut.

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Finance

Avalanche Foundation Eyes $1B Raise to Fund Two Crypto Treasury Companies: FT

The AVAX tokens would be bought from the foundation at a discounted price.

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Tech

The Protocol: SwissBorg’s SOL Earn Wallet Exploited for $41.5M

Also: Ledger CTO Warns of NPM Exploit, Backpack EU opens, and Polygon PoS Chain Reports Finality Lag

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Tech

Kiln Exits Ethereum Validators in ‘Orderly’ Move Following SwissBorg Exploit

Kiln described the ETH validator exits as a precautionary step to safeguard client assets in the wake of the SwissBorg event.

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Markets

Bitcoin Triggers Bullish Head and Shoulders Pattern. What Next?

Bitcoin surged past $113,600, confirming a bullish inverse head and shoulders pattern.

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Markets

Crypto Markets Today: IP Token Surges on Corporate Treasury Adoption

CoinMarketCap's altcoin season index rose to almost 60% in a signal that the season is upon us.

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Markets

Polygon PoS Sees Transaction Finality Lag, Patch in Progress

A bug affecting Bor/Erigon nodes forced validators to resync, slowing confirmation times even as block production continued at a normal pace.

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