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

Asian Food Platform DDC Appoints Investing Professional After Animoca BTC Yield Deal

Kyu Ho has 20 years experience investing in traditional and digital assets, the company said.

Assorted dim sum in bamboo baskets (Alice Cheung/Pixabay)

Tech

Securitize Takes Tokenized Hamilton Lane Credit Fund Multichain, Bringing It Closer to DeFi

The on-chain credit fund, issued with $956 billion private investment firm Hamilton Lane, now spans Ethereum and Optimism, added daily liquidity and DeFi-ready token.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ripple Developers Propose Metadata Standard for XRPL Tokens to Boost Discoverability, Interoperability

XLS-0089d is backward-compatible and opt-in. That means tokens that don’t follow this new metadata standard will still function normally on the XRP Ledger.

A montage of Ripple-related brands (Ripple)

Markets

Strategy Hits Record $128.5B Market Cap as Bitcoin Buying Prompts Equity Sales

The company has tripled the number of shares outstanding since 2020 through major ATM offerings as investors reward its bitcoin-focused transformation.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

Finance

Crypto Market Maker B2C2 Said to Be Raising up to $200M: Source

The transaction will allow majority holder SBI to reduce its stake in the crypto trading firm, the source said.

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Markets

Jim Chanos Calls Strategy’s Premium 'Financial Gibberish'

The famed short seller is betting on a decline in Strategy’s stock while bitcoin advocate Pierre Rochard defends company’s premium valuation amid rising competition.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

Finance

PayPal Blockchain Lead José Fernández da Ponte Joins Stellar

The Stellar Development Foundation also hired Jason Karsh, a former Block and Blockchain.com executive, as chief marketing officer.

Jose Fernandez da Ponte, senior vice president of digital currencies at PayPal, speaks at Consensus 2025.

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Tech

Aethir and Credible Introduce DePIN-Powered Credit Card

The move is designed to give Aethir’s native ATH token holders and node operators access to stablecoin credit without liquidating their tokens

Headshot of Aethir CEO and co-founder Mark Rydon (Aethir)

Finance

Tokenization Firm Midas Brings Two New DeFi Products to Etherlink

The firm’s new mMEV and mRe7YIELD products deliver institutional-grade, market-neutral DeFi exposure.

Midas CEO Dennis Dinkelmeyer (Midas)