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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Policy

U.S. SEC's Atkins Posts Agency's Near-Term Agenda Jammed With Crypto Efforts

The securities regulator routinely posts an outline of its rulemaking agenda, and this latest one shows crypto's "new day" at the agency.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Boerse Stuttgart Unveils Pan-European Settlement Platform for Tokenized Assets

The blockchain-based Seturion platform is designed to unify post-trade systems for tokenized assets and reduce settlement costs by up to 90%.

Stuttgart Stock Exchange, owner of Boerse Stuttgart Digital (Boerse Stuttgart)

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bearish Sentiment Strengthens Ahead of U.S. Jobs, Options Expiry

Both bitcoin and the CoinDesk 20 Index are lower, and the negative sentiment is echoed in the options and perpetual futures markets.

Trading prices displayed on a monitor screen.

Markets

Gold Outshines in 2025 as Bitcoin-Gold Ratio Eyes Q4 Breakout

Gold’s 33% surge cements its role as the benchmark asset, while bitcoin’s long-term structure against gold signals a decisive move ahead.

Gold bars (Linda Hamilton/Pixabay)

Tech

The Protocol: Solana Community Approves Alpenglow Upgrade

Also: ETH Foundation to Sell 10K ETH, A Conversation with Bruce Liu, and Ethereum's Holesky Testnet to Sunset After Fusaka.

CoinDesk

Markets

BNB Gains 1.5% as Corporate Accumulation Eyes Larger Share of Supply

The advance came as broader crypto markets rose and after CEA Industries announced it expanded its BNB stash to 388,888 tokens worth $330 million.

BNB price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

London's $900B Gold Market Could Be Set for Digital Overhaul: FT

The digital gold will be trialed with commercial participants in London in Q1 of 2026

Gold bars (Linda Hamilton/Pixabay)

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Finance

AlphaTon Capital Shares Surge on TON Treasury Announcement

The company, which will operate under the ticker "ATON" starting Sept. 4, will manage TON network infrastructure, it said.

Telegram app on a smartphone (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Finance

U.S. Bank Resumes Bitcoin Custody Services, Adds Support for ETFs

NYDIG will serve as the bank’s sub-custodian for digital assets.

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