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Sheldon Reback

Regional Head of Europe

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

Bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million as Clarity Act fails

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million, the most since June, as the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act sent regulatory-sensitive tokens sharply lower.

ETF outflows hit highest level since June as bitcoin slides (SoSovalue, TradingView)

Finance

Two Robinhood engineers charged with insider trading using Hyperliquid perpetuals

U.S. prosecutors allege two engineers used confidential Robinhood token listing data to front-run announcements using Hyperliquid perpetual futures.

U.S. Office of the Attorney General in Washington. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum, Base give up on common wallet standard after months of talks

Ethereum is moving ahead with EIP-8141 while Coinbase-backed Base backs EIP-8130, leaving wallets and apps that span both networks facing different transaction systems.

A person opening up a traditional wallet.

Policy

European Central Bank calls for merchants to participate in digital euro pilot

The 12-month test will put a beta version of the central bank currency through online, mobile, in-store and peer-to-peer payments.

ECB President Christine Lagarde. (Felix Schmidt/ECB Press)
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Tech

A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge

Two software bugs allowed the attacker to create more than 2,000 times Bitcoin’s maximum supply in unbacked syBTC. Symbiosis puts preliminary losses at 9.97 BTC.

Hackers. Data and security breach. (Kevin Horvat on Unsplash)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Ether, solana, XRP likely to gain if Clarity Act progresses

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 15, 2026

U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC

Markets

Bitcoin gives back Monday's gain as Clarity Act odds fade on Polymarket

Bitcoin fell 1.7% since midnight UTC to $76,862, unwinding a late Monday rally as Polymarket odds on the Clarity Act becoming law this year halved overnight.

Bitcoin tracks Clarity Act odds (Polymarket, TradingView)

Finance

Hong Kong crypto exchange CoinEx to cease operations after 9 years in business

Founder and CEO Haipo Yang cited mounting security and compliance risks and said he rejected a sale in favor of a “clean ending.”

Closed store sign (Tim Mossholder/Unsplash)
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Finance

Trump's $800 million stake into World Liberty Financial's token now has a timeline to becoming sellable

Onchain records show that an $800 million crypto stake that matched Donald Trump's holding was moved into a vesting contract, locking any sales until 2028 after a mandatory 10% token burn.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Finance

Kaiko extends Series B funding round to $110 million with S&P Global, BNP Paribas

Financial rating giant S&P Global joined top traditional banks and exchange operators to fund Kaiko's expansion into continuous market data services

Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran said that his firms and its investors would together define how institutional money would moves onchain. (CoinDesk)
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