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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Juridique

U.S. Crypto Lobbying on Course for Record Spend This Year

Crypto companies spent almost $19 million on lobbying by the end of the third quarter compared with $16 million in the same period last year.

Washington DC (Wenhan Cheng/Pixabay)

Finance

DeFi Market Rebounds to $50B as Speculators Hunt for Yield

An uptick across Solana-based protocols coupled with more than $700 million in deposits to Blast has fueled growth of the value locked in decentralized finance.

DeFi TVL and volume (DefiLlama)

Juridique

Singapore's DigiFT Wins Regulatory Approvals From MAS After Graduating From Sandbox

"DigiFT is the first exchange with an automatic market making mechanism to have been admitted into the MAS FinTech Regulatory Sandbox," said founder Henry Zhang.

Night view of Singapore from the habor. (Larry Teo/Unsplash)

Juridique

Crypto.com Receives UK Authorization as an Electronic Money Institution

The exchange said it plans to use the license to offer e-money products in the U.K.

UK London (Artur Tumasjan / Unsplash)

Publicité

Marchés

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hits $42K for First Time in Over a Year

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Dec. 4, 2023.

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Marchés

Asset Manager Abrdn, Crypto Exchange Archax Strive for Pole Position in Race to Tokenize TradFi

Having created trading pairs on Archax between bitcoin and tokens showing ownership of an abrdn money-market fund, the firms talk for the first time about using this institutional-grade token as collateral elsewhere.

(Shutterstock)

Marchés

TRX Trades at Premium on Poloniex as Arbitrage Lures Risk Takers

Bitcoin, ether and tether withdrawals will open on Poloniex in the coming weeks.

Arbitrage trade opens up on TX (Alexander Grey/Unsplash)

Marchés

Institutional Traders Split Between Bitcoin, Ether: Bybit Research

Numbers from the exchange show institutional traders largely ignored alternative cryptocurrencies in favor of perceived "safe" assets.

(Hans Eiskonen/Unsplash)

Publicité

Marchés

Gauging Spot Bitcoin ETF's Impact on Price Volatility

Some analysts expect bitcoin to mature into a less volatile asset following the introduction of spot ETFs in the U.S, while others say potential "cash creation" structures will increase volatility.

(Chip Vincent/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Marchés

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hits $38.8K for First Time in Over a Year

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Dec. 1, 2023.

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