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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Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin's bounce fails to convince options traders

Your day-ahead look for Feb. 26, 2026

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Markets

Bitcoin stalls below $70,000 while DOT, UNI lead altcoin surge

BTC traded within a well-defined range as polkadot and uniswap rallied, cosmos slid.

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Policy

The UK is picking winners for its digital dollar future while Coinbase CEO cries foul

Coinciding with the FCA’s announcement of its stablecoin trial, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong criticized the U.K.’s regulatory process, saying it puts the region's global crypto leadership at risk.

Photo by Sandy Ravaloniaina on Unsplash/Modified by Coindesk)

Finance

Billionaire Alan Howard’s crypto incubator WebN closes down

WebN backed innovative digital asset firms like KAIO, Twinstake, TruFin and Geometry.

Gautam Sharma, CEO & CIO, Brevan Howard Digital (Consensus)

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Finance

Circle shares surge by record 35% as USDC issuance drives estimate-busting earnings

The issuer of the USDC stablecoin posted EPS of 43 cents for the fourth quarter, beating the consensus estimate of 16 cents. The shares surged 35%.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

Finance

U.S. Senator opens probe on Binance over alleged $1.7 billion flow to Iranian entities

Richard Blumenthal sent Binance co-chief Richard Teng a letter asking him for records about the exchange’s dealings with Iran-linked entities and the alleged dismissal of its investigators.

Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Harold Mendoza/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto rebounds from oversold levels, altcoin season indicator revisits January high

Bitcoin rose as much as 3.7% overnight before paring gains, while altcoins outperformed and the altcoin season indicator hit its highest level since January.

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Markets

Crypto firm with U.S. bank charter holds bitcoin holder Strategy's preferred stock

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered U.S. crypto bank, has added perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy to its balance sheet.

Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital at Consensus 2025.

Finance

Stripe's Bridge sees stablecoin volume quadruple as utility insulates from 'crypto winter'

The payments giant says Bridge, its stablecoin arm, saw its transaction volume sky-rocket through last year as stablecoin adoption is decoupling from crypto cycles.

Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison (Stripe)