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

Altcoins, Stablecoins, Tokenized Stocks Drove July’s Crypto Gains, Binance Says

The crypto market cap rose 13% in July with ether leading altcoins higher, stablecoins overtaking Visa and tokenized stocks surging 220%, Binance Research said.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Markets

Adam Back’s $2.1B Bitcoin Treasury Play Set to Challenge MARA in BTC Holdings

Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co.'s SPAC deal combines fiat financing and a bitcoin-denominated PIPE, aiming to debut on the Nasdaq with over 30,000 BTC and an aggressive growth plan.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Policy

Trump's SEC Chair Says Agency Is 'Mobilizing' to Update Custody, Other Guidance

SEC Chair Paul Atkins appeared on "Mornings With Maria" to discuss his recently announced "Project Crypto.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Circle to Offer 10 Million Class A Shares at $130 Each

The price is more than quadruple the June IPO price of $31 when the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Policy

Hong Kong Regulator Tightens Custody Standards for Licensed Crypto Exchanges

A regulatory review earlier this year found weaknesses in some exchanges’ cyber defenses, prompting the SFC to set new custody standards for licensed platforms.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Slide Spurs $1B Leverage Flush, But It's a Healthy Pullback, Analysts Say

Market strategists said the crypto rally’s broader outlook remains positive despite the largest long liquidations since early August.

White froth-tipped waves (Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay)

Markets

Ark Invest Buys More Than 2.5M Bullish Shares on Day of NYSE Debut

Cathie Wood’s firm spread the new holdings across three different funds, ARKK, ARKW and ARKF as the stock continues to surge on its second day of trading.

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Tech

Figment Outpaces Rivals in Ether Staking Growth, Lido's Decline Eases Dominance Concerns

The shift points to a staking ecosystem that is maturing. For Ethereum, this diversification may be a sign of improved blockchain health.

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Markets

Ether-Led Rally Pushed Crypto Market Cap to $3.7T in July: JPMorgan

Ether outperformed last month as volumes, ETF flows hit records, the report said.

Ether spot ETFs to see same sources of demand as bitcoin versions but on lower scale: Bernstein. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)