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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Technologies

A two-key breach could hand control of $91 billion in USDT to hackers, report finds

The rating agency's new framework combines Wall Street financial auditing with Web3 code reviews to evaluate both off-chain reserves and on-chain security.

Computers. coding. tech. (Fotis Fotopoulos/Unsplash)

Marchés

Weekend altcoin rally runs out of road as bitcoin slips

Bitcoin fell 1.1% since midnight UTC as Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.3%, while the weekend's double-digit altcoin gains stalled.

Altcoin bid stalls (CoinDesk)

Marchés

U.S. inflation, Coinbase’s Deribit switch: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 7.

Coinbase logo shown on a laptop screen

Finance

Catastrophe bonds may join tokenization rush, with plans for test issuance in 2027

A law firm and a tokenization platform say their proposed structure would give investors legal ownership of cat bonds onchain and could lower the minimum investment.

A flood engulfs a car and the ground floor of houses. (Chris Gallagher/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Capital B aims to add 376 BTC to bitcoin treasury following $8.8 million Adam Back investment

The Euronext Growth Paris-listed firm issued 13,181,030 shares with four warrants each at 58 euro cents per share, according to a filing on Wednesday.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February 2025 (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Marchés

Bitcoin slips below $76,500 as U.S. strikes on Iran send oil above $93

Bitcoin fell 1% since midnight as Brent jumped past $93 and Treasury yields climbed toward 4.8%.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Marchés

Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss says bond rout could force emergency spending cuts

The former prime minister said U.K. is among the worst examples of rising debt and warns the situation may have gone too far.

Head and shoulders photo of Liz Truss

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Marchés

Robinhood's new crypto network is printing cash, and it's sending Arbitrum's token soaring

Revenue on Robinhood Chain hit a 24-hour record of $1.9 million, driving a 30% rally in ARB as traders chased downstream gains.

Arbitrum price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

Ethena pushes stablecoins into everyday banking with high-yield savings, cards and payments

Ethena Pay offers a 6% dollar savings rate and 5% card cashback, using Avalanche for settlement.

Ethena CEO Guy Young (right) with Aave Labs founder Stani Kulechov (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)