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

Solayer unveils $35 million fund for real-time DeFi, AI and tokenization apps on infiniSVM

Funded by Solayer Labs and Solayer Foundation, the effort targets onchain apps with revenue and high usage potential.

(Photo by Morthy Jameson on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Mastercard said to weigh Zerohash investment after ending takeover talks worth billions

The credit card giant is considering a strategic investment in Zerohash as opposed to buying the company outright, according to people familiar with the transaction.

Mastercard debit card next to phone with price chart (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Markets

Solana falls, rebounds from $145 as crypto market liquidations near $350 million


Despite strong fundamentals including $15 billion in stablecoins and $1 billion in tokenized real-world assets, technical signals suggest growing uncertainty.

Solana Price Drops 3.6% to $129 Amid $59M Long Liquidation After Resistance Failure

Finance

Former FTX EU trading specialists unveil Perpetuals.com, an AI-powered derivatives platform

Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke were the co-founders of Digital Assets, which was acquired by FTX’s Sam Bankman Fried in 2021 and rebranded as FTX EU.

Nasdaq (Shutterstock)

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Markets

Bitcoin slides to $91,000 as U.S. trade tensions spur selloff : Crypto Markets Today

Bitcoin erased last week’s rally as Asia-led selling hit crypto alongside falling U.S. equity futures.

Greenland (Barni1/Pixabay)

Policy

Portugal joins growing list of countries cracking down on Polymarket

Betting on political events is illegal in Portugal, and the regulator gave Polymarket 48 hours to cease operations in the country.

Portugal's Praça do Comércio (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Tech index futures, crypto stocks drop as U.S.-Europe trade tensions rise, bitcoin falls

Risk assets slide amid tariff uncertainty and rising global bond yields.

Chart of the Invesco QQQ ETF (TradingView)

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Markets

Bitcoin has a 30% chance of falling below $80,000 by late June, options data suggests

Data from decentralized trading venues points to potential for a deeper price crash in coming months.

Bear. (geralt/Pixabay

Finance

NFTs are not dead: Wealthy crypto collectors are still driving the market, says Animoca Brands' Yat Siu

The Animoca Brands co-founder, who is also an avid NFT collector, said there's a community of owners who bought to own, not sell.

Animoca Brands' co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)