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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Markets

Bitcoin edges above $77,000, but institutional activity suggests downside hedging

BTC rises on steady volume and strong technical structure, but surging put interest and muted prediction market odds point to defensive positioning.

Bitcoin price, May 1 2026 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Bithumb scores a legal win in South Korea as six-month suspension is lifted by local judge

South Korea's financial watchdog imposed a $24.6 million fine on Bithumb and partial suspension that came into effect last month.

Bithumb

Policy

Gemini eyes prediction market challenge to Kalshi, Polymarket, secures derivatives license; shares surge

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss' crypto exchange now holds licenses allowing it to expand into regulated derivatives and prediction markets, the fastest-growing sectors in crypto.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss at the White House on July 18, 2025. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase's asset manager to offer stablecoin credit fund with tokenized share class

The fund, dubbed CUSHY, targets yield from onchain lending and private credit, offering tokenized access through Superstate for institutional investors.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

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Finance

Germany’s AllUnity expands EURAU to Solana as euro stablecoins gain traction

The firm's MiCA-compliant euro token aims to speed up euro transfers and support regulated onchain finance as the euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025.

European Union Flag (Christian Lue / Unsplash / Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin faces $80,000 resistance as derivatives show signs of risk aversion

Bitcoin faces profit-taking pressure near $80,000, backed up by a U.S. inflation report that comes as high oil prices and rising bond yields weigh on risk assets.

Oil refinery belching clouds of smoke into the air

Tech

Wasabi Protocol drained of $4.5 million in apparent admin key compromise

The exploit used a playbook similar to Drift's $285 million breach earlier this month: a compromised deployer key with no timelock or multisig that drained funds.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

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Finance

XO Market bets on user-generated prediction markets to rival Polymarket and Kalshi

Backed by 20VC, Picus Capital and Coinbase Ventures; XO lets users create and profit from their own prediction markets, and plans to rollout a new vault product to democratize market making.

Ali Habbabeh and Walid Al Habboul, co-founders of XO Market.

Markets

Bitcoin's widely tracked Coinbase Premium turns negative as realized losses spike to $6 billion

A metric tracking U.S. spot demand has flipped red just as onchain data shows realized losses surging to $5.97 billion.

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