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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Finance

UK digital bond plans hinge on one missing piece: onchain cash

Experts say Britain's digital gilt pilot can unlock trapped liquidity in financial markets only if regulators approve an onchain stablecoin.

UK Prime Minister's official residence and headquarters. (Sgt. Tom Robinson/Wikipedia Commons)

Markets

Bitcoin retreats from one-month high as oil tops $85, inflation concerns resurface

BTC retreated from a one-month high as WTI crude topped $85 for the first time since June, reigniting inflation concerns and pushing investors toward gold, silver and the safety of bitcoin over altcoins.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Kraken parent expands tokenized stocks to Hong Kong, UK and South Korea equities

Payward's xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)

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Tech

Live updates: Bitcoin holds near $66,000 as stocks claw back from big early decline

Later on Wednesday, Alphabet's earnings should give a sign of whether the hundreds of billions going into AI is paying off.

Bitcoin

Tech

Galaxy sets up $5 million fund to help shield Bitcoin against quantum computing threats

The crypto financial services firm is funding developers to strengthen the blockchain's security before quantum computers become powerful enough to steal billions in crypto.

Quantum Computing (Vishal Bansal/Unsplash)

Finance

Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI and stablecoin era

The firm, freshly valued at $1 billion, aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with always-on infrastructure that connects traditional payment systems and stablecoins.

Augustus CEO Ferdinand Dabitz (Augustus)

Markets

Crypto markets rally on Clarity progress report, Asian chip-stock rebound

Speculation that President Donald Trump agreed to a crucial ethics provision for the crypto market structure bill underpinned the gains.

Chart of bitcoin price over 24 hours

Policy

UK Parliament begins inquiry into banking chokepoint for crypto businesses

The U.K.’s Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is focused on banks that refused crypto firms accounts or introduced restrictions on crypto transactions.

uk, government