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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Tech

Aethir and Credible Introduce DePIN-Powered Credit Card

The move is designed to give Aethir’s native ATH token holders and node operators access to stablecoin credit without liquidating their tokens

Headshot of Aethir CEO and co-founder Mark Rydon (Aethir)

Finance

Tokenization Firm Midas Brings Two New DeFi Products to Etherlink

The firm’s new mMEV and mRe7YIELD products deliver institutional-grade, market-neutral DeFi exposure.

Midas CEO Dennis Dinkelmeyer (Midas)

Markets

PEPE Climbs 6% as Traders Defend Key Levels, Memecoin Index Gains 7%

Trading volumes for the frog-themed token surged to 4.6 trillion, while exchange balances have decreased 2.6% over the past 30 days.

PEPE price chart (CoinDesk Data)


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Markets

Strategy’s Convertible Bond Prices Surge as Stock Advances Back Toward Record High

Five of the six convertible issuances from the serial bitcoin acquirer are trading deep in the money, creating billions in unrealized value.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

Markets

XRP Futures Volume on the CME Hit a Record $235M

Institutional investors prefer CME derivatives for regulated exposure to digital assets, avoiding direct ownership.

(John Gress/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitwise Adds Proof of Reserves for Bitcoin, Ether ETFs

The process involves daily on-chain holdings verification, reconciling balances with the number of fund shares outstanding.

Stacks of paper files in an office (Wesley Tingey/Unsplash)

Markets

Institutional Demand Fuels BONK Breakout Amid Burn Plan, Holder Surge

BONK rallies as institutional appetite rises and a trillion-token burn plan fuels scarcity-driven momentum

BONK-USD July 15 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Satoshi-Era Whale Sells 9K BTC for Over $1B as Bitcoin Dips Below $117K

Satoshi-era bitcoin whales are closely monitored by traders for market signals, particularly when the BTC in their wallets has not moved for years.

Whales feeding (Shutterstock)