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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Policy

UK financial regulator moves to allow mutual funds 10% exposure to crypto ETNs

The Financial Conduct Authority proposed allowing some investment schemes to add exposure to crypto exchange-traded notes.

UK FCA building (FCA)

Finance

Trad.Fi, W3 target $650 million in onchain private credit using AI evaluation

Equipment-financing lender Trad.Fi is working with W3 to automate capital workflows and bring real-economy business lending onto public blockchain rails.

Onchain credit. (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

Finance

A16z, Paradigm lead $175 million bet to move global credit markets onchain

Morpho secured $175 million from Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit as the lending protocol seeks to become foundational infrastructure for onchain credit markets.

U.S. dollar bills

Tech

Humanity's $36 million exploit tied to compromised laptop hosting a 'multisig' wallet

The compromised laptop held enough multisig keys to take over the project's bridges on two chains, a basic security failure for a startup backed by Pantera and Jump Crypto.

A hooded figure sits in front of a laptop screen in a darkened room. (Kartik Programmer/Unsplash)

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Markets

Strategy's bitcoin purchase fails to stir BTC price

Bitcoin is little changed despite a new purchase by Strategy as risk-averse investors await U.S. inflation data and next week’s Fed meeting.

Strategy's Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Circle debuts cirBTC on Ethereum to challenge Coinbase in the wrapped bitcoin market

Circle unveiled cirBTC, a token backed 1:1 by the world's largest cryptocurrency, to allow traders to use their bitcoin wealth in DeFi protocols.

Circle's logo and name (Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)

Markets

USDT's flashing a golden cross and that may be bad news for bitcoin

USDT's dominance rate has flashed a golden crossover in a sign of caution for the broader crypto market.

Calculator next to price charts. (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

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Finance

Coinbase and Cardless unveil credit card backed by stablecoins

The stablecoin-secured card is for situations where a credit card cannot be approved on an unsecured basis.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on July 18, 2025. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)