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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Markets

Institutional Demand Fuels BONK Breakout Amid Burn Plan, Holder Surge

BONK rallies as institutional appetite rises and a trillion-token burn plan fuels scarcity-driven momentum

BONK-USD July 15 2025 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Satoshi-Era Whale Sells 9K BTC for Over $1B as Bitcoin Dips Below $117K

Satoshi-era bitcoin whales are closely monitored by traders for market signals, particularly when the BTC in their wallets has not moved for years.

Whales feeding (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner MARA Leads $20M Investment Round in Two Prime, Boosts BTC Yield Strategy

MARA also expanded its BTC allocation to 2,000 BTC, a sign of growing institutional demand for active digital-asset management.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk "First Mover" screenshot)

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Markets

Bitcoin Rally Stalls as Long-Term Holders Cash Out

Supply gaps and $3.5 billion in realized profits trigger 5%-6% price pullback.

Bear and bull (Pixabay)

Markets

XRP's Implied Volatility Explodes, Suggests 13% Price Swing as Congress' Crypto Week Kicks Off

XRP is showing strong bullish momentum, trading over 5% higher at $3.

White froth-tipped waves (Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay)

Finance

Superstate CEO Robert Leshner Buys Majority Stake in 'Shady' Liquor Vendor With BTC Strategy

Leshner said he plans to dismiss the firm's leadership and explore "strategic transactions" to turn the company around.

Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate (Superstate)

Markets

BitMine Immersion Surges 40% After Revealing $500M ETH Treasury

The shares rose over 40% after revealing the large ETH holdings, following a 50% drop after a $2 billion at-the-market offering.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

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Finance

Grayscale Files Confidential Submission for IPO With SEC

The asset manager joins a number of crypto firms that are looking to go public as the digital assets market heats up.

U.S. SEC headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Digital Asset Fund Flows Hit $3.7B Last Week, 2nd-Highest on Record: CoinShares

The week's flows are second only to those of the week ending Dec. 6 last year when they surpassed $4 billion

Fund flows for week-ending July 11 (CoinShares/Bloomberg)