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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Markets

Bitcoin steadies, altcoins jump in liquidity-driven relief rally

Bitcoin and ether tick higher while altcoins surge on oversold bounce, but weak liquidity and macro tensions keep the broader trend fragile.

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Markets

Ethereum Foundation stakes additional $42 million of ether

About 20,470 ETH, or roughly $42 million, flowed from Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets into the Beacon Chain in a series of coordinated deposits Monday, marking one of the largest visible batches in its ongoing staking rollout.

Vitalik Buterin speaking at ETHDenver in February 2022

Markets

Polymarket trader exploits UFC blunder, turns $676 into $67,000 in under a minute

The episode underscores how quickly prediction market prices can whipsaw on live-event errors.

A trader checks his phone while sitting in front of a screen with charts. (Pixabay)

Markets

FTX payout, U.S. jobs: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting March 30.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Crypto's future is bright in the context of AI's assault on software firms, says Kraken-backed investment firm

Crypto’s latest bear cycle is a mere blip when compared with the existential threat AI now poses to traditional software services, says Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp.

Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp.

Markets

NYSE owner doubles down on Polymarket with fresh $600 million investment

The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange is cementing its bet on the future of prediction markets, bringing its total commitment to nearly $2 billion.

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Markets

Bitcoin drops to two-week low as $300 million in longs are liquidated

Bitcoin fell below $67,000 and ether dropped toward $2,000 as equities weakened, oil topped $100 and leveraged longs unwound, signaling fragile sentiment.

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Anchorage Digital adds Tron custody, opens U.S. institutional access to TRX trading

The integration provides institutions with a compliant way to hold TRX and will be expanded to include TRC-20 assets and native TRX staking.

Cryptocurrency prices seen on phone and monitors. (Sajad Nori/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin falls below $67,000 as U.S. 10-year Treasury yield nears 1-year high of 4.5%

Liquidation heatmap shows large liquidity cluster around $66,000, signaling potential downside target.

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