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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Markets

Bitwise files for 11 'strategy' ETFs, tracking tokens including AAVE, ZEC, TAO

The exchange-traded funds will invest both directly and indirectly in the tokens.

Securities and Exchange Commission building

Markets

XRP and solana volatility in 2025 was twice as bumpy as bitcoin's

ETFs tied to altcoins need to pull in deeper liquidity to match BTC's chill.

A turbulent sea. (Ogutier/Pixabay)

Finance

Winklevoss-backed Cypherpunk buys $28 million of zcash, now owns 1.7% of supply

Cypherpunk Technologies boosted its zcash bet with a $28 million token purchase, lifting its holdings to 1.7% of ZEC’s circulating supply.

Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss at White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Grayscale sees regulation, not quantum fears, shaping crypto markets in 2026

U.S. market structure legislation is poised to be the dominant force for digital assets, while near-term concerns about quantum computing are overdone.

The U.S. Capitol.

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Markets

Aptos gains as volume surge signals accumulation

APT broke through key resistance levels on institutional buying activity.

APT Price Rises 0.78% to $1.72 on Institutional Buy-In and Volume Surge

Finance

Unleash Protocol hit by $3.9 million exploit with funds routed through Tornado Cash

The intellectual property platform on Story Protocol lost about $3.9 million after a governance exploit, with stolen funds later routed through Tornado Cash.

Hacker sitting in a room

Markets

In 2025, bitcoin showed how spectacularly wrong price forecasts can be

Analysts aimed high. The market declined to follow.

Bitcoin (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Gold, silver outrun bitcoin as 2025's go-to protectors of paper money

Traders expect BTC to regain its mojo next year.

Gld, Silver, Copper, Palladium (TradingView)

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Markets

Metaplanet buys 4,279 bitcoin, lifts total holdings to 35,102 BTC

Metaplanet's bitcoin income generation business generated about $55 million in annual revenue for 2024.

Metaplanet (TradingView)

Markets

Institutions are increasingly using the bitcoin options playbook for altcoins: STS Digital

Institutions are increasingly using bitcoin options strategies on altcoins to manage price volatility and enhance returns, STS Digital told CoinDesk.

Playing cards and poker chips. (Michał Parzuchowski/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)