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

Cloudflare Global Outage Spreads to Crypto; Multiple Front Ends Down

A widespread Cloudflare outage disrupted major parts of the internet on Tuesday, knocking many crypto platforms offline.

A plug disconnected from its electricity socket.

Crypto Daybook Amériques

Bonds Hint at Rebound: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 18, 2025

Stylized bull and bear face off

Marchés

Crypto Markets Today: Fear Grips Market as BTC Tests Support, Volatility Spikes

Bitcoin hovered near $91,000 as sentiment hit "extreme fear," volatility jumped and leveraged traders absorbed over $1 billion in liquidations while altcoins fell further.

Fear grips crypto market (Patrick Hendry/Unsplash)

Finance

Deutsche Börse to Add SocGen’s MiCA Stablecoins to Core Market Systems

Move brings regulated euro and dollar stablecoins into Deutsche Börse’s settlement and collateral tools.

SocGen sign outside an office building

Publicité

Marchés

Kindly MD Delays Earnings Report Filing as Merger Losses Mount; Shares Drop

Complex post-merger accounting prompts a late filing while losses mount and the shares slip further.

NAKA (TradingView)

Marchés

Figure Stock Jumps as Druckenmiller Invests $77M, Analysts Raise Price Targets

Analysts cited Figure’s shift to ‘capital-light’ model and stablecoin launch on the Provenance blockchain.

Duquesne Capital Management founder Stanley Druckenmiller (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Marchés

Cboe to Debut Bitcoin, Ether ‘Perpetual-Style’ Crypto Futures on Dec. 15

The contracts will offer long-term crypto exposure without rollovers, tailored for institutions avoiding offshore risk.

The Cboe Global Markets Inc. building in Chicago (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Marchés

High-Stakes Gambler Liquidated for $168M After Shorting the Bottom of Crypto Plunge

A high-stakes crypto trader was wiped out on HyperLiquid before immediately piling back into massive leveraged shorts on GMX — echoing past blow-ups from reckless market punters.

Ether crashed 35% in May (keithsutherland/Getty images+/Unsplash)

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Crypto Daybook Amériques

Still Hope for Bulls: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 17, 2025

(Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Marchés

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin, Ether Sink to Multimonth Lows as Liquidity Dries Up

A bruising weekend confirmed a broader downtrend across major tokens, with shifting Fed rate-cut expectations and thin liquidity accelerating declines.

Bitcoin and ether sink to multi-month lows (Getty Images/Unsplash+)