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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Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Holds $100K as Altcoins Extend Losses, AI Tokens Defy Trend

Bitcoin’s slide to $100,600 caps another week of losses due to renewed Fed caution. Ether and most altcoins are struggling, though AI-linked tokens are seeing outsized gains.

A trader slumps at his desk in front of chart screens (Getty Images+/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Miner IREN Posts Record First-Quarter Earnings, Looks to Growth in AI

The company is targeting $3.4 billion in AI Cloud ARR by end of 2026 with expansion to 140,000 GPUs and strengthened financing position.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Policy

UK Stablecoin Rules Will Be in Place 'as Quickly as the U.S.,' BOE Says: Bloomberg

BOE Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden tied the need to impose caps on stablecoin holdings to the U.K.'s mortgage market, which relies on commercial bank lending.

Bank of England (Robert Bye / Unsplash / Modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Strive Raises $160 Million in Bitcoin Buying Power After Upsized Preferred Stock Offering

Upsized 2 million-share SATA issuance priced at $80 includes a 12% dividend and potential bitcoin allocation.

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Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Holds $103K as Altcoins Lag and Traders Hedge Downside

Bitcoin steadies above $100,000 after a dip, while altcoins struggle and derivatives data show rising caution across the market.

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Markets

Another Piece of Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin Strategy May Be Falling Into Place

With the perpetual preferred share STRC now trading at par, Strategy may unlock a new path to acquire bitcoin through its at-the-market program.

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Finance

Franklin Templeton Debuts Tokenized Money Market Fund in Hong Kong

Accredited investors in Hong Kong have access to the U.S. dollar, Luxembourg-registered, tokenized UCITS money-market product.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: ZKSync Aims to Revamp Its Tokenomics Model

Also: The First AI Agent App Store, ETH Devs Lock In Fusaka Mainnet Date and Edge & Node’s Ampersand.

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