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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Markets

CleanSpark sold 97% of February bitcoin production to fund AI pivot

The cash flow generated will support the bitcoin miner's expansion into AI and high-performance computing data centers.

Racks of mining machines.

Policy

Crypto-friendly fintech giant Revolut files for U.S. banking license

The license would allow the firm to operate like a traditional bank and gain direct access to payment networks like Fedwire and ACH.

A Revolut card (Kay/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

New York Stock Exchange owner values crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion in new partnership

ICE also made a strategic investment in OKX at a valuation of $25 billion and plans to launch new tokenized stocks and crypto futures products.

NYSE flags (David Jones/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin holds above $72,000 as crypto market pauses after breakout

Bitcoin and ether edged higher as traders assessed macro risks, derivatives positioning and whether bitcoin can sustain a push toward $80,000.

Sailboat on calm seas ocean sea (Unsplash)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz crypto arm said to seek $2 billion for fifth fund: Fortune

The venture firm led by Chris Dixon is reportedly aiming to close its fifth crypto fund in the first half of 2026, signaling continued bets on blockchain startups.

VC Fund. (Credit: Vladimir Solomianyi on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

ZeroHash applies for national trust bank charter to expand regulated stablecoin services

A charter would allow ZeroHash to operate under a single federal framework, rather than state-by-state rules and offer services aligned with recent legislation.

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

Markets

IREN to expand processing capacity by 50%, prepares at-the-market offering

The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and filed for a potential $6 billion at-the-market share sale, sending the stock lower in pre-market trading.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

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Tech

The Protocol: New Ethereum scaling plans

Also: OKX and AI agents, Future AI users of blockchain and Bitcoin’s latest governance clash.

Abstract blockchain networks illustration with glowing cubes representing digital assets

Finance

Billions in crypto are moving in Iran. Analysts can't agree if it's war-time panic or business as usual.

When airstrikes hit Iran on Feb. 28, crypto outflows from Nobitex spiked 873%, suggesting a "digital bank run" was ongoing. The reality may be more complex.

Toy soldiers on a map (Amos K/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)