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

Tether Reports $4.9B Net Profit in Q2, Invested $4B in U.S. Initiatives

The firm held roughly $8.9 billion in bitcoin in the reserves, translating to roughly 83,200 coins.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Visa Expands Settlement Platform to Stellar, Avalanche, Adds Support for 3 Stablecoins

Visa's platform now supports four stablecoins across four blockchains, including Ethereum and Solana.

A Visa card being held to next to a payment terminal. (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Tech

Clearpool Expands to Payments Financing, Debuts Stablecoin Yield Token

The decentralized finance platform targets fintechs bridging fiat settlement gaps with short-term stablecoin credit.

Bottom of a swimming pool. (xing419/Pixabay)

Finance

Tether-Focused Blockchain Stable Raises $28M to Power Stablecoin Payments

The blockchain aims to enable fast, low-cost and stable digital payments using USDT as its gas token.

Pot full of coins (micheile henderson/Unsplash)

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Markets

ICP Rises 5% as Token Burn, AI-Powered Development Tools Fuel Rally

DFINITY burns 1M tokens while debuting tools that enable app creation using plain English, sparking institutional demand.

ICP, July 31 2025 (CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin Shakes Off Powell Jitters: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for July 31, 2025

Fed Chair Jerome Powell adjusts his glasses at a press conference.

Finance

Rice Robotics to Debut RICE Token for AI Data Marketplace on TokenFi Launchpad

With robots deployed at Softbank, 7-Eleven Japan and Mitsui Fudosan, the company is introducing a token to decentralize and monetize robotics data using a DePIN model.

A Rice Robotics minibot (Rice Robotics)

Finance

Ether Machine Starts 334K ETH Buying Spree With $57M Purchase

The Ether Machine started deploying its ETH treasury strategy, with over $400 million in reserves remaining for future purchases.

Ethereum Logo (Unsplash)

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Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum Turns 10

Also: Linea Upgrades, Solana Internet Capital Markets Roadmap and Square Begins BTC Payments.

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Markets

BNB Breaks Below $800 as Volume Patterns Point to Lack of Sustained Demand Despite Corporate Interest

The drop comes after BNB hit a record high near $860, driven by aggressive moves into the token by public companies.

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