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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Markets

Bitcoin drops on Iran war uncertainty, AI tokens jump

BTC traded near $69,500 after failing to hold $71,000 as the Iran war kept markets cautious. AI tokens including ICP, FET outperformed on strong retail demand.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. SEC chief Atkins said bond with sister agency CFTC to include joint meetings, exams

The SEC chairman made clear that formal new ties between the U.S. markets regulators will run so deep as to include combined meetings with firms pitching products.

CFTC Chair Mike Selig (left) and SEC Chair Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Vitalik Buterin pushes ‘DVT-Lite’ to make Ethereum validator setup easier

In a post on X, the blockchain's co-founder said the Ethereum Foundation is testing a new method for running validators that could make staking infrastructure significantly easier for institutions holding large amounts of ether.

Vitalik Buterin speaking at ETHDenver in February 2022

Finance

U.S. requests October retrial for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm

Roman Storm, a Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, has criticized proceedings against him as an attempt “to make writing code a crime.”

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm outside the Manhattan courthouse where he is being tried for criminal money laundering (CoinDesk/Cheyenne Ligon)

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Stablecoin market expands, bitcoin rallies as Iran war panic cools

Your day-ahead look for March 10, 2026

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Markets

Bitcoin climbs to $71,000 as dollar, oil weaken after Trump comments on Iran war

Crypto and risk assets rally as the dollar retreats following comments from Donald Trump suggesting the conflict in Iran may end soon, while bitcoin still faces a broader downtrend.

Donald Trump (Credit: Library of Congress on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Strategy logs record STRC equity issuance on Monday, buys estimated 1,420 bitcoin

The company amended its Omnibus Sales Agreement to allow multiple agents to execute sales of the same security outside regular trading hours.

Strategy CEO Michael Saylor

Markets

Bitcoin could be the big winner if the U.S.-Iran conflict drags on for months

Macro strategist Mark Connors says war-driven spending, rising debt and lower interest rates could support bitcoin.

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Finance

Global insurance broker Aon tests stablecoin payments with Coinbase, Paxos

The firm used USDC on Ethereum and PayPal USD on Solana for insurance premium payments, testing how stablecoins could reshape settlements.

Close-up of logo for British professional services company AON atop the AON building in downtown Los Angeles, 2019

Policy

U.S. Treasury signals shift on crypto mixers, acknowledges legitimate privacy uses

A congressional report on implementing the Genius Act acknowledges the existence of lawful uses for blockchain privacy tools even as U.S. regulators pursue enforcement cases tied to illicit finance.

The U.S. Treasury Department. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)