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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Tech

Ethereum startup EthSystems bets privacy is key to getting banks on public blockchains

EthSystems, which spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is focused on building privacy infrastructure for banks and other financial institutions.

Graphic showing ethereum symbol on a grid with screens. (Ethereum)

Markets

Morgan Stanley debuts ether, solana exchange-traded products after bitcoin fund success

The asset manager is offering low-cost ETH and SOL exchange-traded products after its bitcoin fund topped $381 million in assets.

Morgan Stanley offices (Sven Piper/Unsplash)

Finance

Apple kept fake bitcoin wallet on App Store after $875,000 theft report, lawsuit alleges

A lawsuit alleges Apple kept a fake bitcoin wallet app on its store after one user reported an $875,000 theft, leading to another user having roughly $840,000 stolen.

Apple logo on the side of a building.


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Markets

Bitcoin drops as South Korean stocks tumble, Senate shelves crypto Clarity Act

BTC shed 2% as South Korea's Kospi plunged 11% and the U.S. Senate shelved the Clarity Act, leaving the market facing a pivotal Fed decision on Wednesday.

BTC price (CoinDesk data)

Markets

Perpetuals tied to SK Hynix hit by flash crash to $900 on Hyperliquid

Perpetual futures on the South Korean chipmaker's American depositary receipts plunged 20% in one minute before quickly rebounding above $1,000.

Chart of Sk Hynix perp flash crash on Hyperliquid. (Hyperliquid)

Markets

Hong Kong’s central bank puts a number on lenders' quantum preparedness. It's very low.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority published a whitepaper on the quantum preparedness of Hong Kong’s banking industry and its first Quantum Preparedness Index.

Abstract image to denote quantum computing. (Vishal Bansal/Unsplash)

Finance

Digital asset trading platform Uphold cuts 17% of global headcount as crypto winter bites

The crypto trading platform said the layoffs reflect a strategic shift toward its fast-growing enterprise business.

Computer monitors and a laptop screen show trading charts on a desk overlooking an expanse of water at sunset. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)

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Finance

Cantor is advising crypto bank AMINA on path to potential public listing

The Swiss bank is exploring multiple paths to the public markets, though discussions are ongoing and no final decision has been made.

Wall Street street signs (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Tech

Lido begins moving $16.5 billion in staked ether to cut validator count by a third

The liquid staking protocol is consolidating 8 million ETH and requiring its professional node operators to post bonds for the first time.

Lido's CMV2 Upgrade (Lido/Media)