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

ClearBank secures MiCA approval, targets Circle euro, dollar stablecoins for institutional clients

The U.K.- and EU-regulated credit institution gains crypto-asset service provider status and said it will connect clients to regulated stablecoin rails over Circle Mint

View of Docklands from Clear Bank's London office. (Alex Merz/ClearBank Press)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin anchors near $70,000 as RAVE's 3,400% surge signals speculative froth

Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies remain relatively resilient. Surges in some smaller tokens showed there's still froth left in the market.

The motorcade of  U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Islamabad.

Markets

Crypto markets stall as oil surges past $100 on Strait of Hormuz blockade

Bitcoin and ether retreated Monday as tensions in the Middle East triggered a spike in crude oil, forcing traders into defensive derivatives positioning.

BTC/USD (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

The one metric investors are overlooking in Michael Saylor’s Strategy

Increased preferred-equity issuance and surging STRC trading volumes are reshaping how Strategy's common stock trades.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk Television)

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Markets

Clarity Act returns to U.S. Senate, bank earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting April 13.

U.S. Congress (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Market makers are fleeing public blockchains to protect their secret trading playbooks

Crypto trading is almost entirely public. One startup thinks it has borrowed an idea from Wall Street that could change that.

Denis Dariotis, founder and CEO of GoQuant

Finance

Iran war oil-price shock revives inflation trade and a new stablecoin play

As oil shocks revive investor anxiety, stablecoins solved payments, but not purchasing power, says Michael Ashton, who's USDi token aims to fix that.

Skyline of the Iranian capital, Tehran

Crypto Daybook Americas

Institutions' bitcoin positioning lacks conviction; CPI, Iran talks might help

Institutions are betting on the bitcoin price hitting $80,000 through call options, but they are also buying downside protection.

Close of up a gas station dispenser (Krzysztof Hepner/Unsplash)

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Markets

Bitcoin holds steady as inflation data looms, bittensor drama unfolds

Traders face a pivotal Friday as narrowing volatility on bitcoin's chart hints at a massive price move while bittensor faces a high-profile developer exit.

BTC/USD (CoinDesk Data)

Tech

XRP adjacent Flare proposes protocol-level MEV capture and 40% inflation cut

The proposal would move block building away from individual validators, create a revenue entity called FIRE to buy and burn FLR, and reduce annual token inflation to 3%.

Flare Network (Shutterstock)