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

Bitcoin holds steady near $64,000 as monero, hyperliquid outperform

Crypto markets remain in a low volatility holding pattern, trading in a tight range following Wednesday's CPI report.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

MUFG to test real-time blockchain settlement for Japanese government bond trades

MUFG is preparing a proof-of-concept for onchain JGB transactions using the Canton network.

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Finance

Brazil’s largest bitcoin treasury firm plans ETF with 95% allocation to Strategy's STRC

DIGY11 aims for annual distributions matching Brazil’s interbank rate plus 3–5 percentage points, net of costs, though investors' actual returns are not guaranteed.

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Markets

Metaplanet denies selling bitcoin worth $320 million

Metaplanet CEO dismisses bitcoin sale rumors, confirms 43,000 BTC holdings

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Finance

Kalshi taps DoubleZero for Wall Street-style high-speed data feed

Kalshi is looking to meet institutional demands by adding DoubleZero data to its order book.

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Tech

Miden bets on privacy stablecoins with introduction of USDCx

USDCx will let users transact without publicly exposing balances, counterparties or transaction histories, while allowing selective disclosure for compliance.

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Markets

Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as U.S. inflation data looms, Harmony exploit rattles altcoins

Markets are quiet ahead of the July inflation print, with bitcoin little changed, oil near $90 and Harmony nursing a fresh exploit.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

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Finance

Bank of England to test stablecoin, digital currency use in cross-border finance

The BOE-led Digital Pound Lab will test trade-finance interoperability, in which exporters receive stablecoins while importers settle in a potential digital pound.

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Finance

Fidelity moves to add staking, quarterly payouts to near $900 million ether ETF

The fund would keep 85% of gross staking rewards, with the remaining 15% going to service providers.

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