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

Crypto Investment Firm Dao5 Raises $222M Fund to Back Institutional Blockchain Adoption

The firm's dao5 fund is set to become a decentralized autonomous organization later this year.

Price and depth chart on laptop (Austin Distel/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Trump-Linked NexusOne Launches to Influence U.S. Crypto and AI Policy

The firm, located near the White House, plans to lobby for companies in these industries.

White House. (René DeAnda/Unsplash)

Policy

UK's Delayed Regulation Hurts Plan to Be Global Crypto Hub, Executives Say: CNBC

The country is falling behind other nations in developing a welcoming environment for crypto companies.

A view over the City of London taken over the Thames near Tower Bridge. (Cj / Unsplash+)

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Finance

Banks Must Adopt Crypto or 'Be Extinct in 10 Years,' Eric Trump Says

The son of U.S. President Donald Trump said the current financial system is broken and blockchain technology is the fix.

Eric Trump, executive vice president of Trump Organization Inc., in New York in 2023. (Getty Images)

Markets

Tokenized Apollo Credit Fund Makes DeFi Debut With Levered-Yield Strategy by Securitize, Gauntlet

The offering aims to make real-world asset tokens competitive with stablecoins for DeFi yield strategies, Securitize's Reid Simon said.

Statue of Apollo by Johann Baptist Hagenauer in Schönbrunn Palace Park, Germany


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Tech

Bitcoin Debate on Looser Data Limits Brings to Mind the Divisive Ordinals Controversy

Removing the blockchain's OP_RETURN size controls would allow more data to be embedded in transactions. Critics say this will only be used for spam.

Three people, including Peter Todd, sit at a panel discussion.

Markets

BlackRock, BNY Team Up to Tokenize Shares of $150B Treasury Trust Fund, SEC Filing Shows

BlackRock will work with BNY Mellon in creating a new class of Distributed Ledger Technology shares for the fund.

BlackRock's name above a building's entrance.