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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Keuangan

Kalshi valuation doubles to $22 billion in latest funding round: Bloomberg

The new $1 billion investment round indicates that interest in the embattled prediction market remains.

Kalshi co-founders Luana Lopes Lara and Tarek Mansour (Kalshi)

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Coinbase introduces stock perpetual futures contracts for non-U.S. customers

The contracts trade 24/7, are cash-settled in USDC and allow for up to 10-times leverage on single-stock contracts and 20-times on ETF products.

Coinbase app on a mobile phone screen (appshunter.io/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Amerika

Bitcoin holds steady, with one analyst seeing the upside emerging

Your day-ahead look for March 20, 2026

Stylized bitcoin logo

Pasar

Crypto market steadies as derivatives signal caution, macro pressure builds

BTC holds near $70,500 as derivatives turn defensive, macro risks weigh on sentiment and altcoins show pockets of strength.

A see-saw sits unused in a playground

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Teknologi

OpenClaw developers targeted in GitHub phishing scam offering fake token airdrops

Security researchers said attackers are impersonating OpenClaw on GitHub, luring developers with bogus CLAW token giveaways that trick users into connecting their crypto wallets.

Hackers and scammers. (Credit: Max Bender/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Kebijakan

ECB seeks experts to help integrate digital euro into ATMs, card payment terminals

The European Central Bank is preparing the ground should legislators enable the issuance of a digital currency and the bank's governing council approve issuing it.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

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Bitcoin’s biggest DeFi drawback under attack as OpNet unlocks smart contracts on mainnet

Bitcoin’s biggest limitation is being challenged as OpNet brings native, yield-generating DeFi directly to the Bitcoin mainnet.

Abstract blockchain networks illustration with glowing cubes representing digital assets

Crypto Daybook Amerika

Capital is shifting into digital dollars as bitcoin wilts

Your day-ahead look for March 19, 2026

Symbols of several stablecoins including USDT, USDC.

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Pasar

Bitcoin slips below $70,000 as oil surge, Fed pause weigh on risk assets

BTC dipped below $70,000 as energy prices spiked and the Fed held interest rates, pressuring crypto and equities.

Oil rig operating during the sunset (Maria Lupan/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin, unusually, outperforms gold as hawkish Fed, oil price fuel risk-off sentiment

Bitcoin fell 2% while gold and silver saw sharper declines as oil prices surged and the Fed flashed hawkish signals.

BTCUSD/Gold (TradingView)