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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Income ETFs could be bitcoin’s volatility kill switch

What you need to know for April 15, 2026

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Markets

Bitcoin pulls back as $75,000 remains 'both the milestone and the ceiling'

Bitcoin is struggling to break and hold above the key $75,000 resistance level while ether, solana decline.

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Tech

Why this ex-Solana exec is using a Wall Street trick to level the playing field in DeFi

DoubleZero’s private fiber network aims to eliminate latency advantages like Hyperliquid’s Tokyo edge, but exchanges have yet to show an interest.

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Markets

Winklevoss Capital moves $43 million in bitcoin to custody after hitting lowest balance since 2012

Arkham data shows 572 BTC moved from Gemini's hot wallet to Winklevoss custody addresses in two transactions in 17 hours, reversing part of last month's $128.5 million deposit.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Markets

High Roller stock more than doubles on prediction markets partnership with Crypto.com

The announcement comes as an increasing number of companies move into prediction markets, an industry that is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2030

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Finance

Scroll moves to cut costs after top protocol migrates to Optimism

The downsizing follows a financial hit after Scroll's top protocol migrated to Optimism, draining nearly $160 million in TVL and $13 million in annualized fees.

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Finance

JPMorgan CFO warns stablecoins risk becoming ‘regulatory arbitrage’ play

During the bank's earnings call on Tuesday, JPMorgan CFO Jeremy Barnum warned that stablecoins could become a tool for regulatory arbitrage unless they are held to the same strict oversight and consumer protection standards as traditional bank deposits.

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Tech

XRP Ledger adds zero-knowledge proofs targeting institutional privacy gap

The Boundless integration enables private transaction execution on XRPL while maintaining compliance, addressing what the company calls the "transparency tax" that has held back institutional adoption of public blockchains.

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Finance

Visa and Zodia Custody join Stripe’s new blockchain for machine payments

The card network configured and managed the validator node entirely in-house, it said, following six months of joint work with Tempo’s engineering team.

Cuy Sheffield, the head of Visa's Crypto team (Visa)