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

OKX, Korea Investment and Securities said to be in talks for 40% of Coinone

OKX's planned move into the South Korean market would echo that of Binance, which completed its acquisition of Seoul-based Gopax last year.

Bright lights, people throng in Seoul shopping street

Tech

Wall Street is starting to notice one of crypto’s smartest AI bets

A growing spotlight on Nof1’s Alpha Arena suggests SUI Group and Karatage may have gotten early to one of the most important experiments in finance: teaching AI how to trade in real markets.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

Markets

Hyperliquid leads 24-hour gains as altcoins pace bitcoin

HYPE’s surge is being fueled by Bitwise’s new spot Hyperliquid ETF and Coinbase’s expanded role as Hyperliquid’s official USDC treasury deployer.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan

Finance

Hana Bank to acquire $670 million stake in Upbit operator Dunamu

The South Korean bank announced plans for a won-pegged stablecoin, blockchain remittances and tokenized securities.

Seoul (Yeojin Yun/Unsplash)

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Markets

Strategy’s STRC stock logs record $1.5 billion trading volume, funds 11,707 bitcoin purchase

Heavy trading volume ahead of the ex-dividend date pushed STRC to its busiest session on record.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk Television)

Markets

The U.S. stock market is getting close to dot-com bubble peak valuations

The Shiller cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio for U.S. stocks is nearing the 1999 peak seen during the dot-com bubble.

Laptop screen showing a rising graph line. (Yorgos Ntrahas/Unsplash)

Finance

Kraken to replace LayerZero with Chainlink to bridge assets across blockchains

The decision sees a total of over $3 billion in total value locked migrating after a $292 million LayerZero-powered bridge exploit involving Kelp.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Policy

Bank of England ready to water down 'overly conservative' stablecoin proposals: FT

Restrictions proposed by the BOE prompted criticism from the crypto industry, which said they risked preventing the U.K. from being competitive in the digital economy.

A pedestrian walks past the entrance to the Bank of England (Unsplash)

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Clarity Act markup leaves bitcoin unstirred

Your day-ahead look for May 14, 2026

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Markets

Bullish misses first-quarter revenue estimates as services fall short

The company also missed bottom-line forecasts. The shares fell before rebounding as the broader market advanced.

Crypto platform Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (CoinDesk/Nik De)