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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Crypto Daybook Americas

On Thin Ice: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for Dec. 2, 2025

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Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Risk-Off Mood Persists as Altcoins Extend Losses

Crypto markets failed to bounce on Tuesday, with bitcoin retracing last week’s gains and altcoins extending losses.

Risk-off mood persists (cocoparisienne/Pixabay)

Markets

Strategy Trading Explodes to Highest in a Year as Shares Fall on Dollar Reserve, Profit Forecast

Trading volume in Strategy shares surged to 42.9 million, the most since last December, as the price fell 3.25%.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Tech

Anthropic Research Shows AI Agents Are Closing In on Real DeFi Attack Capability

Models tested by MATS and the Anthropic Fellows program generated turnkey exploit scripts and identified fresh vulnerabilities, suggesting automated exploitation is becoming technically and economically viable.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

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Finance

JPMorgan and Strike CEO Jack Mallers Go Silent, Leaving 'Debanking' Questions Unanswered

For now, Jack Mallers decided to not comment any further and JPMorgan declined to explain why it debanked the CEO of a company very similar to newly launched JPM Coin.

Jack Mallers in an interview with CoinDesk when he was CEO at Twenty One Capital

Markets

Chainlink's LINK Slides 11% as Technical Breakdown Overshadows ETF Launch News

The token broke below $12, breaching key support levels with heavy trading volume, confirming the downtrend.

Chainlink Falls 7% to $11.94 Despite Historic ETF Launch

Markets

Digital Asset Treasuries Lead Crypto Stock Sell-Off as Bitcoin Falls to $84K

Strategy fell to the lowest since October, 2024, and ether and solana treasury plays including BitMine, Sharplink, Solana Company, Upexi tumbled nearly 10%.

Bear roaring

Policy

European Authorities Seize $1.51B Bitcoin-Mixing Service Cryptomixer

Europol dismantled a crypto-mixing platform it said is used by ransomware groups and darknet markets to launder bitcoin, seizing servers, data and $29 million in BTC.

Crime (David von Diemar/Unsplash)

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Policy

Canada Eyes Stablecoin Rules as Scotiabank Flags Limited Market Impact

Scotiabank said Ottawa’s move toward a stablecoin framework is more about modernizing payments than reshaping broader financial markets.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Strategy Still the Premier Bitcoin Proxy, Benchmark Says, Rejecting ‘Doom’ Narrative

The broker said fears over Strategy’s solvency are misplaced and the stock remains the strongest asymmetric bet on bitcoin.

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR)