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

Metaplanet Bitcoin Purchase Takes Holdings to 20K BTC, Overtaking Riot Platforms

1,009 BTC purchase worth $112M is biggest since July, shares drop 5.5%

Close up of the red circle at the center of the Japanese flag. (DavidRockDesign/Pixabay)

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: SOL Futures Are More Popular Than Ever, U.S. Inflation Report Looms

Open interest in SOL futures hit a record high alongside a rally in the token's price to a level not seen since February even as Solana application revenue dropped.

Solana sign and logo

Finance

Eric Trump Praises China’s Role in Bitcoin, Says U.S. and Beijing Are ‘Leading the Way’

President Donald Trump's son said he would love for his father and China's President Xi Jinping to talk about bitcoin at a coming meeting.

Eric Trump speaks in Hong Kong at BTC Asia (screenshot)

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Finance

IREN Posts First Full-Year Profit on AI Cloud Growth, Mining Expansion; Shares Climb

The stock rose 13% pre-market with IREN closing in on MARA as the world’s biggest bitcoin and AI miner by market cap.

IREN (TradingView)

Markets

ICP Climbs 3% as Interest in Altcoins Gains Momentum

ICP executes V-shaped recovery, reclaiming $5.13 on heavy volume, possibly setting up for continued gains

ICP, Aug. 28 2025 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Trump-Backed Bitcoin Miner American Bitcoin Targets September Nasdaq Debut

The miner 80% owned by Hut 8 is finalizing a merger with Gryphon ahead of listing. Trump brothers hold the other 20% stake.

Eric and Donald Tump Jr. in New York City in August. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

Jump Trading Alums Raise $20M for aPriori to Bring High-Frequency Trading Tools On-Chain

The San Francisco-based startup has secured $20 million in new funding, bringing total capital raised to $30 million.

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Lygos Aims to Banish Ghosts of Crypto Lending Collapse With Non-Custodial Bitcoin Model

Built on Discrete Log Contracts from Atomic Finance, Lygos says its new BTC credit platform avoids the custodial risks that sank Celsius, BlockFi and Voyager.

Lygos co-founders (Lygos)

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: BTC's Gain Lacks Derivative Traders' Support; YZY Leads to Losses

While the CoinDesk 20 Index of largest tokens has gained less than 1% in the past 24 hours, the CoinDesk 80 Index has rallied 4%.

Hands on a laptop keyboard with a screen showing charts and prices (Unsplash, Kanchanara)