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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Markets

Quantum computing nears commercial breakthrough, IBM CEO says

Arvind Krishna said quantum computing will begin generating meaningful revenue before the decade ends as investment in the sector accelerates, in an interview on CNBC.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Markets

Crypto faces 3 barriers to next bull run, STS Digital CEO says

Institutional options selling, AI and delayed U.S. crypto regulation are weighing on bitcoin, according to STS Digital CEO Maxime Seiler.

Trading screen. (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

World Cup bets smash records as prediction markets hit $20 billion in volume

Markets ranged from the simple question of who would win the tournament to whether Cristiano Ronaldo would cry when Portugal were eliminated (he did).

2026 FIFA World Cup winners Spain (Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin, ether fall, equities rally with broader crypto market on track for best month in a year

BTC fell as July drew to a close, even as stocks gained in Asia and U.S. index futures advanced. The CoinDesk 20 index is set to post its biggest gain since July 2025.

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Policy

New York sues Kalshi, alleges it offers a gambling platform 'plain and simple'

The suit wants to bar the company from operating what it says is an unlicensed gambling business and seeks financial redress.

Playing cards and poker chips (Michal Parzuchowski/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin’s calm is back and so is the setup for a volatility explosion

Bitcoin’s daily price swings have tightened to their narrowest since January, making clean trades harder to find. Here's what could happen next.

BTC's daily chart with Bollinger bands and bandwidth indicators. (TradingView)

Finance

Ondo Finance weighs acquisition worth up to $500 million

The tokenized-assets firm is considering an acquisition valued at $250 million to $500 million as consolidation accelerates across crypto infrastructure.

A hand holding several hundred-dollar bills. ( Frederick Warren/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Policy

Telegram faces terror-related legal action in Australia one day after founder is charged by Russia

The platform faces a fine of up to $38 million for allegedly failing to remove terror-related content.

New Zealand's Christchurch mosque. (Michal Klajban/Wikimedia Commons)