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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Finance

Nexo Agrees to Buy Argentina’s Buenbit to Expand Crypto Services Across Latin America

The deal gives Nexo access to Buenbit's user base and enables it to offer crypto-backed loans, high-yield savings accounts and trading tools.

Flag of Argentina (Angelica Reyes/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z Crypto to Open Seoul Office, Hire Sungmo Park to Lead Asia Efforts

Andreessen Horowitz's crypto venture capital unit pointed to high levels of crypto ownership in South Korea and Singapore, and growing onchain activity in Japan.

South Korea's flag (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Stripe’s Tempo Testnet Goes Live

Also: ZKSync Lite to Sunset, Blockstream App Update, Axelar’s AgentFlux

Contactless payment via a mobile phone (Jonas Lupe/Unsplash)

Markets

ICP Extends Decline as Range Support Breaks, Testing New Lows Near $3.48

Internet Computer slipped back into a declining pattern after early strength faded, with the slide pushing the token toward key December support levels.

ICP-USD, Dec. 10 (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Tether Rolls Out Privacy-Focused Health App as Expansion Into AI Accelerates

The company behind the largest stablecoin, the $186 billion USDT, is increasingly venturing beyond crypto into sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics.

Tether

Markets

Bitcoin Volatility Is Still Compressing, Dimming Year-End Rally Outlook

Bitcoin's volatility indices are declining, just like the S&P 500's.

BTC's 30-day implied volatility index. (TradingView)

Finance

TenX Protocols to Start Trading on TSX Venture Exchange After Raising $24M in 2025

The company said it plans to use the proceeds to buy tokens and stake them across networks including Solana, Sui and Sei.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)


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Markets

KindlyMD Turns to Kraken as Fourth Provider for Bitcoin-Backed $210M Loan at 8%

An SEC filing shows the Kraken facility will be used to retire an outstanding Antalpha loan and requires significant bitcoin collateral.

NAKA (TradingView)

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Fed Rate-Cut Hopes Lift BTC, ETH as Traders Brace for Volatility

Crypto markets are firm ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, with a 25 basis-point interest-rate cut already priced in.

Brick naming Federal Reserve Bank of New York