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

London's $900B Gold Market Could Be Set for Digital Overhaul: FT

The digital gold will be trialed with commercial participants in London in Q1 of 2026

Gold bars (Linda Hamilton/Pixabay)

Finance

AlphaTon Capital Shares Surge on TON Treasury Announcement

The company, which will operate under the ticker "ATON" starting Sept. 4, will manage TON network infrastructure, it said.

Telegram app on a smartphone (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Finance

U.S. Bank Resumes Bitcoin Custody Services, Adds Support for ETFs

NYDIG will serve as the bank’s sub-custodian for digital assets.

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Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Languishes at $111K as Altcoins Continue to Outperform

Almost $250 million worth of derivatives positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours despite a relative lack of volatility.

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Finance

Venus Protocol Restores Services, Recovers Stolen Funds After $27M Exploit

The DeFi lender paused withdrawals and liquidations after a malicious contract update drained tens of millions.

Under a low-light red lamp, a pair of hands types on a keyboard. (Wesley Tingey/Unsplash+)

Finance

Winklevoss Twins Back $147M Raise for Treasury’s Landmark European Bitcoin Listing

The Gemini co-founders are supporting Netherlands-based Treasury BV as it pursues a reverse listing on Euronext Amsterdam to become Europe’s leading bitcoin treasury company.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Strategy Raises Dividend on STRC Offering to Attract Yield-Seeking Investors

The company boosted the yield on the perpetual preferred stock to try and edge STRC toward $100 target.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

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Crypto Exchange OKX Fined $2.6M in Netherlands for Failing to Register With Dutch National Bank

The company offered crypto services in the Netherlands from July 2023 to August 2024 without the legally required registration.

OKX trading app on a mobile phone (CoinDesk)

Finance

Jack Ma-Linked Yunfeng Financial to Build Ether Treasury Starting With $44M ETH Purchase

Yunfeng joins companies including SharpLink Gaming and Bitmine Immersion Technologies that have begun pursuing an ether treasury strategy in recent months.

Ant Group and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma (CoinDesk Archives)