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

MARA Mines 705 BTC in August as Treasury Holdings Top 52,000

Company holds 52,477 BTC, advances Texas wind farm and European growth while shares face year-to-date decline.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Held Talks to Invest in Gold Mining: FT

Tether's CEO Paolo Ardoino referred to the precious metal as "bitcoin in nature," in a conference speech in May.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino at White House

Markets

Bitcoin Slips Below $110K as Analysts Weigh Risk of Deeper Pullback

BTC is on the brink of losing a key level that could see prices plunge to $93,000 before a stronger final quarter, Bitfinex analysts cautioned.

Bitcoin (BTC) price today (CoinDesk)

Markets

DOT Slumps 4% as Support at $3.80 Level Fails

The Polkadot token tumbled amid increased selling pressure as support levels failed.

DOT Drops 3% Amid Volume Surge and Technical Breakdown, Signaling Bearish Momentum

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Web3

Etherscan Expands to Sei Blockchain as Network's Trading Volume Tops $1.3B

Seiscan adapts Etherscan's widely used interface to Sei's EVM-compatible network, offering familiar features to users.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. SEC's Atkins Posts Agency's Near-Term Agenda Jammed With Crypto Efforts

The securities regulator routinely posts an outline of its rulemaking agenda, and this latest one shows crypto's "new day" at the agency.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Boerse Stuttgart Unveils Pan-European Settlement Platform for Tokenized Assets

The blockchain-based Seturion platform is designed to unify post-trade systems for tokenized assets and reduce settlement costs by up to 90%.

Stuttgart Stock Exchange, owner of Boerse Stuttgart Digital (Boerse Stuttgart)

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bearish Sentiment Strengthens Ahead of U.S. Jobs, Options Expiry

Both bitcoin and the CoinDesk 20 Index are lower, and the negative sentiment is echoed in the options and perpetual futures markets.

Trading prices displayed on a monitor screen.

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Markets

Gold Outshines in 2025 as Bitcoin-Gold Ratio Eyes Q4 Breakout

Gold’s 33% surge cements its role as the benchmark asset, while bitcoin’s long-term structure against gold signals a decisive move ahead.

Gold bars (Linda Hamilton/Pixabay)