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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Policy

UK Passes Law Formally Recognizing Crypto as Property

The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act received Royal Assent on Tuesday, the final step of an act becoming law after being passed by the U.K. Parliament.

The UK government wants to regulate crypto like finance, not gambling (Ugur Akdemir/Unsplash)

Markets

Strategy Faces Possible MSCI Index Removal, Threatening Billions in Outflows: Reuters

A removal could lead to outflows of up to $8.8 billion if other index providers follow suit because the stock is part of many passive investment products.

MicroStrategy

Policy

Taiwan Authorities Say Island's First Regulated Stablecoin Will Debut Next Year

Regulators have not decided whether the token will be tied to the Taiwan dollar or the U.S. dollar, a choice that will determine how deeply it tests the island’s currency controls.

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Finance

Brazil Sentences 14 for Using Crypto, Shell Firms in $95M Drug Money Laundering Case

The defendants were found to have used fake companies and cryptocurrency transactions to conceal the origin of the illicit funds.

Money Laundering (Frank van Hulst/Unsplash+/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Iren Plans to Sell Up to $2.3 Billion of Convertible Notes, Shares Drop

The company also plans to sell shares to fund the repurchase of existing debt.

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Finance

Kraken Agrees to Buy Tokenization Specialist Backed Finance as RWA Trend Accelerates

The exchange has already teamed up with the Switzerland-based firm for its tokenized equity offering, xStocks.

Kraken

Markets

Grayscale’s Chainlink ETF Lists on NYSE Arca, LINK Price Jumps

The debut marks the first U.S. ETF tied to Chainlink, which secures tens of billions of dollars in onchain value across DeFi and gaming.

Chainlink logo on a screen

Finance

BNP Paribas Joins EU Bank Stablecoin Venture Helmed by Ex-Coinbase Germany Exec

The group of 10 banks plans to introduce its euro stablecoin next year under a new Dutch entity named Qivalis.

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

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Markets

Toncoin Climbs to $1.50 as Cocoon Debut Sparks Surge in Trading Volume

Cocoon lets GPU owners rent out computing power for AI tasks and receive TON tokens as compensation, with Telegram as the first user.

TON Price Rises 1.29% to $1.51 Amid Launch of Cocoon AI Platform

Markets

APT Rises 2.3%, Outperforms Wider Crypto Market

The gains were accompanied by a surge in trading volume signaling potential institutional positioning.

Aptos Rises 0.81% to $1.90 with Increased Trading Volume Suggesting Institutional Interest