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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Piyasalar

Bitcoin holds steady as inflation data looms, bittensor drama unfolds

Traders face a pivotal Friday as narrowing volatility on bitcoin's chart hints at a massive price move while bittensor faces a high-profile developer exit.

BTC/USD (CoinDesk Data)

Teknoloji

XRP adjacent Flare proposes protocol-level MEV capture and 40% inflation cut

The proposal would move block building away from individual validators, create a revenue entity called FIRE to buy and burn FLR, and reduce annual token inflation to 3%.

Flare Network (Shutterstock)

Politika

Japan moves to classify cryptocurrencies as financial products

The new rules ban insider trading, require issuers to publish annual disclosures, and impose stricter penalties: up to 10 years in prison and 10 million yen in fines for operating without registration.

Tokyo, Japan (Jaison Lin/Unsplash)

Piyasalar

Tokenized perpetual swaps hit $31 billion weekly volume on commodities volatility

Commodities led the growth, with oil trading reaching $6.9 billion in weekly volume after geopolitical tensions, while stock perpetual swaps grew 908% to roughly $4.9 billion.

Price chart on a mobile phone lying next to laptop (Aidan Hancock/Unsplash)

Reklam

Finans

Americans’ losses to crypto scams rose to over $11 billion last year, FBI reports

Fraud schemes grew more sophisticated and targeted larger sums than in 2024.

FBI Headquarters Washington, D.C. (Wikimedia Commons/CoinDesk)

Piyasalar

Bitcoin price-drop speculation spurred by familiar price pattern

BTC and ETH remain stuck in a two-month range as oil prices and Iran tensions weigh on sentiment, while AI and privacy tokens show surprising relative strength.

CoinDesk

Teknoloji

Solana Foundation unveils security overhaul days after $270 million Drift exploit

The program includes 24/7 threat monitoring for protocols with more than $10 million in deposits and a dedicated incident response network of security firms.

Solana logo

Reklam

Piyasalar

Bitcoin pulls away from software stocks as Iran war, AI reshape market dynamic

BTC correlation with an ETF tracking software comany stocks broke sharply from near-total alignment to near zero after the conflict started.

BTC vs IGV (tradingView)

Politika

Appeals court blocks New Jersey from shutting down Kalshi's sports markets

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that New Jersey could not bring an enforcement action against Kalshi, finding that the federal Commodity Exchange Act preempted state gambling laws.

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig speaking at Vanderbilt University