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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Finance

Lloyds Bank completes UK’s first gilt purchase using tokenized deposits

Lloyds enlisted the help of Archax and Canton Network to carry out the transaction.

Lloyds Bank sign above a branch.

Finance

Barclays invests in stablecoin settlement firm as tokenized infrastructure advances

Ubyx is building a framework to enable tokenized money to move between issuers and institutions, supporting the exchange and redemption of funds.

Barclays logo on building (Jose Marroquin/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Metplanet valued at three-month high relative to bitcoin holdings after MSCI decision

Select bitcoin treasury equities gained after MSCI removed near-term index exclusion risk.

Chart of Metaplanet's mNAV (Metaplanet)

Markets

Storage token Filecoin rises on heavy volume

Trading activity was more than double the token's 30-day average, signaling heightened investor participation.

"Filecoin Prices Modestly Up at $1.58 Amidst Surging Trading Volume"

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Markets

Circle's USDC outpaces growth of Tether's USDT for second year running

USDC grew faster than USDT for the second consecutive year, driven by increased demand for regulated digital dollars.

Circle logo on a screen

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin tests key resistance as memecoin trading volume explodes

Bitcoin briefly climbed to its highest level since mid-November before pulling back, while rallies in SUI, XRP and memecoins point to a renewed appetite for risk.

Dog on laptop (paylessimages/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

Copper, gold and bitcoin: A macro signal to watch

The copper-to-gold ratio is breaking higher, a move that has historically aligned with key turning points in bitcoin cycles.

Copper pans hanging. (stux/Pixabay)

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Markets

Goldman Sachs sees regulation driving next wave of institutional crypto adoption

Regulatory clarity and expanding use cases beyond trading are setting the stage for deeper institutional participation in digital assets, the bank said.

The U.S. Capitol.

Markets

Bitcoin miners continue to face dwindling profits despite lower competition, JPMorgan says

Mining profitability declined last month, with daily block reward revenue down 7%, and 32% year-on-year.

Bitcoin mining machines (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)