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

Canton Network developer raises $355 million to bring Wall Street onchain

The investment comes as blockchains designed for big banks and institutions are having a moment, with Stripe's Tempo and Circle's Arc raising hundreds of millions of dollars.

Digital Asset co-founder and CEO Yuval Rooz (Digital Asset)

Finance

Tether leads $1.4 billion funding round in German robotics company Neura

The investment is part of the stablecoin giant’s expansion into industries outside of crypto.

Robotics. (Gabimedia/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin advances, holds above key technical level that ether, solana can't break through

BTC's dominance rate has risen from last week's low, a sign of renewed capital flowing into the largest cryptocurrency as major altcoins struggle.

A trader stands examining a large trading graph in front of him.

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Policy

Philippines' central bank says Binance and its local partner lack licenses to operate

Binance and its local partner do not hold the necessary license required to operate in the country, the Philippine central bank said, according to a local media report.

A globe segment centered on the Philippines. (Road Ahead/Unsplash)

Finance

Singapore bank DBS to offer tokenized gold to retail customers

Each token is backed by one gram of physical gold held by DBS in a dedicated vault in Singapore.

Close-up of stacked gold bars. (Jingming Pan/Unsplash)

Finance

Mastercard prepares for a future where AI agents make payments

The company is working with Coinbase, Stripe and other companies to build trusted payment systems for AI-driven commerce.

(Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Getty Images)


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Markets

Zcash, Hyperliquid tokens lead losses as traders bet against a bitcoin bounce

Crypto markets are under pressure ahead of key U.S. inflation data due later Wednesday.

Crypto trader sleeping in front of chart screens (Unsplash)

Finance

Japan's three largest banks aim for joint stablecoin issue by March

MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho will establish a council to explore operational frameworks and prepare for the issuance of stablecoins.

Japan flag in front of a building (Roméo A./Unsplash)