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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Tech

The human brain's edge is fading. AI could outhink us in 2 years, Ben Goertzel says

"The human brain is better at taking the imaginative leap to understand the unknown ... We should enjoy it for a couple more years."

Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET

Finance

Recapping day 1 of Consensus Hong Kong

Hong Kong is looking to build its digital assets economy, its leaders said on stage.

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Finance

Aviva Investors to tokenize funds on XRP Ledger in Ripple partnership

The U.K. asset manager teamed up with Ripple to bring traditional fund structures onchain in its first tokenization push.

Nigel Khakoo and Jill Barber

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Markets

Bearish sentiment prevails as bitcoin falls below $67,000, ether drops

Bitcoin and ether extended declines, dragging down crypto-related stocks, even as gold and silver rallied.

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Policy

Regulation, derivatives helping drive TradFi institutions into crypto, panellists say

Non-participation in decentralized finance is becoming a career risk for traditional finance professionals, panellists said.

Two members of The Ultimate Deriving Machine panel at Consensus Hong Kong 2026

Finance

Arkham denies exchange closure plan, says switching to decentralized platform

Data analytics firm Arkham Intel first floated the idea of adding a crypto derivatives exchange in late 2024.

Arkham was listed on CoinDesk's Project To Watch 2023

Finance

MrBeast's finance bet could become the new generation's Schwab, Robinhood, Tom Lee says

The BitMine chairman said at Hong Kong Consensus 2026 that MrBeast acquiring neobank Step could win over a new generation of investors to crypto.

Tom Lee Consensus Hong Kong 2026

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Finance

Hong Kong continues to support local digital asset community growth, chief executive says

The government will continue to support a local crypto/Web3 agenda, Chief Executive John KC Lee said at Consensus.

Entrance to Consensus Hong Kong 2026 exhibition center

Finance

What to expect at CoinDesk's Consensus Hong Kong 2026

Consensus Hong Kong kicks off on Wednesday with speeches from the city's chief executive and the head of its markets regulator.

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