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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Markets

Crypto market slips even as equities advance. Pump surges on social-media chatter

With a Fear and Greed index pointing solidly at "fear," crypto prices drifted lower even as stock index futures rose. PUMP's 20% surge was the only real headline in an otherwise quiet session.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Hyperliquid plans to add decentralized prediction markets in upgrade to HIP-4

Permissionless prediction markets will become available first on testnet and later on mainnet, Hyperliquid said.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan

Markets

U.S. regulatory developments and earnings, ECB rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 20.

CFTC's Mike Selig participates in a panel discussion during Consensus Miami 2026

Finance

Amazon Japan supplier AZ-Com Maruwa to adopt yen stablecoin JPYC for payments

The Japanese logistics firm plans to pay 2,300 partners, including truck drivers, using JPYC in Japan’s first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout.

Men in yellow shirts delivering boxes in Tokyo. (Iban Lopez Luna/Pexels)

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Markets

Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto

Crypto fell as AI stock fatigue and U.S.-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though a technical measure hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Web3

Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization

Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".

Airbnb website on a laptop

Finance

Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion

The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin

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Finance

Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business

The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.

Keyrock CEO and co-founder Kevin de Patoul (Keyrock)