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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Finance

Alchemy's AI-driven identity and payment service gains access to Visa network

The AgentCard integration with Visa Intelligent Commerce allows AI agents built on models from any provider, including OpenAI or Anthropic, to effect commercial transactions.

Close up of Visa logo on a payment card.

Markets

The great rotation: Investors desert the Magnificent 7, crypto for AI bottlenecks

Capital is flowing out of the largest tech companies and bitcoin as investors pile into semiconductors, memory stocks and space-related opportunities.

Two people work on a shares paper document placed between two laptops.

Markets

Crypto market positioning is 'defensive and thin' after Fed, Marex  analysts say

While the Federal Reserve held interest rates, Chair Kevin Warsh made it clear the U.S. central bank is more worried about inflation than growth.

Daytrading bitcoins financial markets at a coffeeshop. (Austin Distel/Unsplash)

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Markets

Next bull run will be slower, less volatile as investors' crypto appetite evolves, Bitwise CIO says

Long-time bitcoin bull Matt Hougan told CoinDesk that during this bear market and with ‘doubts swirling’, investors have found ‘it easier to reach for something more tangible:’ stablecoins and tokenization.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan. (Bitwise/Press)

Markets

BitGo stock surges on $50 million share buyback as value languishes 65% below IPO price

The buyback comes as newly public digital-asset firms face a tougher environment, with crypto markets lagging and investor attention shifting toward AI stocks.

BitGo at NYSE. (X/Matt Ballensweig)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Three Fed signals that could make bitcoin pop

Your day-ahead look for June 17, 2026

Federal Reserve logo highlighted on a U.S. banknote (joshua-hoehne/Unsplash)

Markets

UNI token surges while rest of crypto market looks to Fed's Warsh for guidance

The Federal Open Markets Committee is set to announce the first interest-rate decision under Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, who then faces questions from journalists.

Kevin Warsh stands with a raised hand at his swearing in ceremony as chair of the Federal Reserve.

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Coinbase to join tokenized stock race with onchain shares, dividend payments

The crypto exchange said investors will own the shares and receive dividends, underscoring growing momentum behind tokenized securities.

Mobile phone showing apps from a number of crypto exchanges. (Getty Images)