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

Mantra to Burn $160M OM Tokens, 50% From DAO’s Founder, Following 90% Price Crash

The tokens are part of John Mullin's team allocation that were staked when the network first started in October 2024.

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Markets

GSR Anchors $100M Investment in Upexi to Purchase SOL, Stock Rockets 700%

Upexi will use the capital to build a treasury model centered on solana staking, with GSR leading the private placement.

Solana portfolio shown on a laptop (Amjith S/Unsplash)

Tech

Friends With Benefits Grows Up

The buzzy covid-era crypto social club has launched Friends With Builders to create Web3 products with 20 infrastructure partners.

FWB CEO Greg Bresnitz

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Finance

HashKey Capital to Debut Asian XRP Tracker Fund With Ripple as Anchor Investor

The fund aims to simplify institutional access to XRP for cross-border payments, crypto investing in Asia.

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Finance

Stellar Sees $3B of Real World Assets Coming On-Chain in 2025

The Stellar blockchain has made new partnerships with Paxos, Ondo, Etherfuse and SG Forge.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon

Finance

Auradine Raises $153M Series C for Bitcoin Mining, AI Data Center Networking

The funding round takes Auradine's total backing to $300 million.

A photo of four mining rigs

Markets

Bitcoin, the Haven Crypto Bulls Hoped for, Is More a Barometer of Risk: Godbole

Bitcoin, rather than behaving as a digital gold, has solidified as a proxy for risk, validating FX market participants who track it as a gauge of speculative sentiment.

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