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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Tech

MIT-Incubated Optimum Raises $11M Seed Round to Build Web3's Missing Memory Layer

The seed round was led by 1kx and included Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Spartan and more.

MIT Professor Muriel Médard sitting at a table in front of a diagram-covered whiteboard (Optimum)

News Analysis

CoinDesk Weekly Recap: Crypto Emerges From the Tariff War

Plus: Paul Atkins was confirmed and ETH ETF options were approved.

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Finance

How the Hype for HyperLiquid's Vault Evaporated on Concerns Over Centralization

Users fled the DEX and TVL has dropped to $150 million from $540 million in the past month.

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Markets

Cardano’s Hoskinson Sees Bitcoin Touching $250K, Tech Giants Adopting Stablecoins

“You’ll have a lot of fast, cheap money, and then it’ll pour into crypto,” he said in a recent interview.

Charles Hoskinson, CEO and founder of IOHK, the lead developer of Cardano.

Markets

Tariffs, Trade Tensions May Be Positive for Bitcoin Adoption in Medium Term: Grayscale

Tariffs contribute to stagflation, and this benefits scarce assets such as gold and bitcoin, the report said.

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Finance

Ether Whale Dumps $22M of ETH After 9 Years

The trader also sold during major market dips in 2022 and 2023.

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Markets

New Bull Run or Bear-Market Rally? Only Time Will Tell

Wednesday's market rallies in stocks and crypto might be the start of a new bull run, or just a short-term surge during a longer decline.

Bull bear (gopixa/Shutterstock)

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Markets

Crypto Investors Flee Spot Bitcoin, Ether ETFs on Tariff-Driven Uncertainty

The withdrawals took place even as prices zoomed higher alongside a risk-reset on Wall Street.

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Policy

Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Leaves Prison, Seeks Pardon

Griffith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions after giving a talk at a crypto conference in Pyongyang in 2019.

SANCTIONS CHARGE: Virgil Griffith is accused of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by allegedly telling North Korean government officials how to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency.