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

Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI and stablecoin era

The firm, freshly valued at $1 billion, aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with always-on infrastructure that connects traditional payment systems and stablecoins.

Augustus CEO Ferdinand Dabitz (Augustus)

Markets

Crypto markets rally on Clarity progress report, Asian chip-stock rebound

Speculation that President Donald Trump agreed to a crucial ethics provision for the crypto market structure bill underpinned the gains.

Chart of bitcoin price over 24 hours

Policy

UK Parliament begins inquiry into banking chokepoint for crypto businesses

The U.K.’s Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is focused on banks that refused crypto firms accounts or introduced restrictions on crypto transactions.

uk, government

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Finance

AI compute stocks bounce as Hut 8, IREN land billions in new contracts

The deals sparked a rebound in AI compute stocks after investors questioned demand for new data center capacity.

Hut 8 Beacon Point Data Center: Rendering. (Hut 8/Press)

Policy

Brazil’s securities regulator sets up task force with 60-day deadline for tokenization proposal

The framework will address critical issues like official ownership records, private key custody, transaction reversibility and system liability.

Brazil's flag (Rafaela Biazi/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto market slips even as equities advance. Pump surges on social-media chatter

With a Fear and Greed index pointing solidly at "fear," crypto prices drifted lower even as stock index futures rose. PUMP's 20% surge was the only real headline in an otherwise quiet session.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

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Finance

Hyperliquid plans to add decentralized prediction markets in upgrade to HIP-4

Permissionless prediction markets will become available first on testnet and later on mainnet, Hyperliquid said.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan

Markets

U.S. regulatory developments and earnings, ECB rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 20.

CFTC's Mike Selig participates in a panel discussion during Consensus Miami 2026