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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金融

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.

市场

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.

Stylized bitcoin logo

科技

The Protocol: Mythos forces crypto industry to rethink security practices

Also: Aave’s $300 million recovery effort, crypto for AI agents, and Bitcoin proposal for Satoshi-linked tokens.

Person wearing a skeleton mask, with a lifted finger to their mouth. (Max Bender/Unsplash)

金融

Hyperliquid is preparing to take on Polymarket with a new way to trade real-world events

Hyperliquid is gearing up to challenge Polymarket with a zero-fee entry for event betting as the $63 billion prediction market sector continues to explode.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan

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金融

Visa expands stablecoin settlement network as volume hits $7 billion run rate

The payments giant added support for Stripe's Tempo, Circle's Arc, Coinbase's Base, Polygon and Canton Network as stablecoins gain traction in global money movement.

A Visa card being held to next to a payment terminal. (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

市场

A tiny group is winning on Polymarket as under 1% of wallets take half the profits

After research showed a small minority moves prices, new data suggests an even smaller group captures roughly half of all gains.

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Crypto Daybook 美洲

Bitcoin trading volume is falling fast. That rarely ends smoothly.

What you need to know for April 29, 2026

Bitcoin News

市场

Bitcoin rebounds from key support as traders eye renewed push toward $80,000

BTC climbs after holding at the $75,600 support level while derivatives signal de-risking, and speculative flows build in memecoins ahead of tech earnings.

BTC chart (CoinDesk Data)

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金融

Mezo unveils institutional bitcoin yield vaults as demand grows to put idle BTC to work

A new product from Mezo, backed by Anchorage Digital and seeded by Bullish, highlights a broader shift as institutions seek yield on bitcoin without sacrificing custody or control.

Bitcoin (CoinDesk)

政策

Fake Hong Kong stablecoins start trading as real ones remain absent

Tokens using ‘HKDAP’ and ‘HSBC’ tickers are circulating even as the HKMA says no licensed stablecoins have been issued

Hong Kong view over Victoria Harbour.