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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Finance

Trump Family’s DeFi Play Pulls ALT5 Sigma Into $1.5B WLFI Treasury Plan

Trump family–backed World Liberty Financial is injecting its WLFI token into the balance sheet of Nasdaq-listed ALT5 Sigma through a $1.5 billion share sale.

World Liberty Financial leadership team. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Watch Out Below: Bitcoin’s Weekend Surge Leaves CME Gap

BTC nears record highs, but history suggests the $119,000 futures gap could invite a pullback.

BTC CME Futures (TradingView)

Markets

BONK Pushes Higher, Tests Resistance at $0.0000264

Solana-based memecoin gains 1.7% amid volatile trading, approaching a major resistance zone on strong volume.

BONK-USD, Aug. 8 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Filecoin Demonstrates Resilient Recovery Following Mid-Session Volatility

The bounce in FIL came as the wider crypto market rose, with the Coindesk 20 index recently up 3.1%.

FIL price chart

Finance

Worldcoin Rival Humanity Protocol Debuts $1.1B Mainnet for Privacy-First Web2 to Web3 Identity

Humanity Protocol’s $1.1B-valued mainnet uses zkTLS to link Web2 credentials with Web3 services while keeping user data private.

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Finance

Spanish Bank BBVA Said to Offer Off-Exchange Custody to Binance Customers: FT

Cryptocurrency exchanges have been rolling out stricter controls and clearer disclosures on how user funds are safeguarded.

Binance logo on a smartphone (Vadim Artyukhin/Unsplash)

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Markets

Ethereum Transactions Hit Record High as Staking, SEC Clarity Fuel ETH Rally

ETH’s price appreciation has also been supported by the growing number of public “crypto treasury companies,” or firms that buy and hold tokens directly or through dedicated vehicles.

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Finance

SharpLink Raises $200M in Direct Offering to Raise ETH Holdings to $2B

The Minneapolis-based firm's ether holdings sit at 521,939 ETH as of its latest purchases.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)