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

SharpLink Raises $200M in Direct Offering to Raise ETH Holdings to $2B

The Minneapolis-based firm's ether holdings sit at 521,939 ETH as of its latest purchases.

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Tech

Babylon Introduces Trustless Bitcoin Vaults for BTC Staking Protocol

The trustless bitcoin vaults harness BitVM3, the latest evolution of BitVM, a framework for enabling smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain.

David Tse, co-founder of Babylon (Bradley Keoun, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: Solana’s Seeker Mobile Begins to Ship

Also: Base Block Production Failure Due to Sequencer, Jito Proposes Rerouting Block Engine Fees and Cardano Core Devs Get $70M Budget.

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Markets

ICP Falls 2.4% Despite Bullish Reversal From Sub-$5 Levels

Internet Computer falls amid volatile trading, but rebounds off $4.97 lows with elevated volume

ICP-USD, Aug 6 2025 (CoinDesk)

Markets

BONK Drops 4% With Volatility Exceeding Altcoin Average

Memecoin trades with 50% price spread intraday.

BONK-USD, Aug 6 2025 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Philippines SEC Cracks Down on Unregistered Crypto Exchanges as New Rules Kick In

The agency warned the public against engaging with unregistered crypto firms.

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Policy

Nomura-Backed Laser Digital Wins Regulatory Nod for Crypto Derivatives in Dubai

Laser Digital secured the first regulated over-the-counter crypto options limited license under VARA’s pilot framework.

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Tech

Base Says Sequencer Failure Caused Block Production Halt of 33 Minutes

The outage began at 06:07 UTC on Aug. 5, when the active sequencer fell behind due to congestion from on-chain activity, according to Base.

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