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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Tech

Trump-backed WLFI passes proposal letting $5 million stakers buy 'direct access' to team

The governance vote passed with 99.12% approval from 1,800 voters, with 76% of tokens coming from just 10 wallets.

A women drops her vote into a wooden box.

Markets

Fed headlines central bank rate decisions, Gemini earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting March 16.

U.S. Federal Reserve headquarters (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

AI developers may not be keen on crypto, but stablecoins are the secret to agentic finance, crypto insiders say

The brave new world of autonomous, micro-transacting AI agents is where programmable cryptocurrencies will shine, according to stablecoin experts.

Robot girl (Gabriele Malaspina, Unsplash)

Markets

One mysterious investor made $2.5 million profit in hours by betting big on the latest Trump gala news

A dormant crypto whale just bet $7 million on the Trump memecoin after a new Mar-a-Lago gala was announced, sparking a 60% rally for the struggling token.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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MoonPay introduces Ledger-secured AI crypto agents to address wallet key risks

The feature allows users to verify and sign every transaction generated by an AI agent using a Ledger hardware device, ensuring private keys never leave the hardware signer.

Photo of the moon (Alois Grundner/Pixabay)

Tech

Ethereum Foundation publishes new mandate defining its role, core principles

The document comes at a point of transition for the organization, following shifts in the blockchain's technical roadmap and the resignation of a co-executive director.

Ethereum Logo

Finance

Stablecoins, bitcoin could reshape finance, Stanley Druckenmiller says

The billionaire investor said stablecoins could become the whole payment system in 10-15 years, and reiterated that crypto might replace the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.

Stanley Druckenmiller in 2016

Finance

U.S. sanctions 6 people, 2 companies that laundered $800 million in crypto for North Korea

The Treasury Department said North Korea infiltrated IT workers into U.S. businesses and channeled their wages back to the country to fund weapons of mass destruction programs.

The U.S. Treasury Department. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin outperforms stocks, tops $72,000 even as dollar strengthens

BTC climbed 2% to break through $72,000 while U.S. equity futures slipped and the dollar strengthened, as altcoins and AI tokens joined a broader crypto rally.

A matador faces a bull