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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Политика

Japan's Financial Regulator to Approve First Yen-Denominated Stablecoin: Report

Approval of JPYC's yen-pegged token could happen as early as the next few months.

Japanese Yen. (Shutterstock)

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Thailand’s Digital Tourist Wallet Rolls Out, With Crypto Link Still Stuck in Sandbox

Bangkok’s push to revive tourism now includes an e-money wallet for foreign visitors, with a crypto conversion feature still under regulatory review.

Thailand Flag (CoinDesk Archives)

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Solana Briefly Hits 100K TPS Under Stress Load, Boosting SOL Appeal

The data showed that Solana could theoretically sustain 80,000–100,000 TPS in real operations like transfers or oracle updates under peak conditions.

Car road blur speed

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Altcoins, Stablecoins, Tokenized Stocks Drove July’s Crypto Gains, Binance Says

The crypto market cap rose 13% in July with ether leading altcoins higher, stablecoins overtaking Visa and tokenized stocks surging 220%, Binance Research said.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

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Adam Back’s $2.1B Bitcoin Treasury Play Set to Challenge MARA in BTC Holdings

Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co.'s SPAC deal combines fiat financing and a bitcoin-denominated PIPE, aiming to debut on the Nasdaq with over 30,000 BTC and an aggressive growth plan.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Политика

Trump's SEC Chair Says Agency Is 'Mobilizing' to Update Custody, Other Guidance

SEC Chair Paul Atkins appeared on "Mornings With Maria" to discuss his recently announced "Project Crypto.

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

Финансы

Circle to Offer 10 Million Class A Shares at $130 Each

The price is more than quadruple the June IPO price of $31 when the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Hong Kong Regulator Tightens Custody Standards for Licensed Crypto Exchanges

A regulatory review earlier this year found weaknesses in some exchanges’ cyber defenses, prompting the SFC to set new custody standards for licensed platforms.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Slide Spurs $1B Leverage Flush, But It's a Healthy Pullback, Analysts Say

Market strategists said the crypto rally’s broader outlook remains positive despite the largest long liquidations since early August.

White froth-tipped waves (Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay)