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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Finance

Sovcombank says it's the first Russian bank to offer bitcoin-backed loans to public

Larger rival Sberbank beat Sovcombank to the punch, but it's still running as a pilot program.

Sovcombank office in a historic building in Vyborg. (Photo: Vesan99-Wikimedia Commons/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

XRP DeFi opens to institutions as Hex Trust adds custodial FXRP access

Custodian Hex Trust will let clients mint and redeem FXRP and stake FLR through its platform, giving institutions a way to put XRP to work.

XRP symbol on top of dollar bills. (Unsplash/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto platform Bullish tops Q4 estimates, posts GAAP loss on digital asset writedowns

Shares of the company fell about 5% during normal trading hours, while bitcoin tumbled more than 7% in the last 24 hours.

Crypto exchange Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (Aoyon Ashraf/Modified by CoinDesk))


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Markets

Bitcoin, ether slide 7% as market 'fear' increases, liquidations mount

Crypto markets extended losses amid heavy derivatives liquidations and macro headwinds, with traders bracing for further downside if bitcoin breaks key support.

Bitcoin (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin drops below $70,000 as crypto selloff deepens before U.S. equity market opens

"Extreme fear" grips crypto and metals while U.S. equities show resilience ahead of key earnings.

BTCUD (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Stifel predicts bitcoin crash to $38,000. Yes, you read it right.

Stifel analysts predict bitcoin could fall to $38,000 using an analogy of the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" to explain the bearish forecast.

A surfer falls headfirst into the waves  (keithsutherland/Getty images+/Unsplash)

Policy

Newly unsealed DOJ files link Jeffrey Epstein to a 2014 investment in Coinbase

Emails show Brock Pierce introduced Jeffrey Epstein to the Coinbase round, while Blockchain Capital later said its fund investment was never completed as Epstein invested independently.

Jeffrey Epstein charges being unveiled in 2019. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

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Finance

Spanish lender BBVA joins EU banks' stablecoin venture to challenge digital dollars

The $800 billion-asset bank is the 12th to join Amsterdam-based Qivalis, which aims to introduce a euro-pegged token this year.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

Tech

The Protocol: Vitalik Buterin’s stark warning on layer-2 roadmap

Also: Open-source alternative for bitcoin miners, EF’s quantum-computing team and a new lending protocol for XRP

Vitalik Buterin