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

Coinbase to join tokenized stock race with onchain shares, dividend payments

The crypto exchange said investors will own the shares and receive dividends, underscoring growing momentum behind tokenized securities.

Mobile phone showing apps from a number of crypto exchanges. (Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin buyers add over 250,000 BTC between $59,000 and $67,000 as accumulation returns

Glassnode data shows broad-based buying across retail and whale cohorts, with the Accumulation Trend Score reaching its strongest level of the current drawdown.

URPD (Glassnode)

Markets

Bitcoin rallies after Japan rate increase with XLM, INJ, UNI advancing

Stellar’s XLM, Injective’s INJ and Uniswap’s UNI ranked among the best performers in the 100 biggest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

Bitcoin price chart

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Markets

Kraken debuts U.S. perpetual futures as crypto derivatives move onshore

Perpetual futures generated more than $60 trillion in volume last year, according to the crypto exchange, largely outside the U.S.

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

Markets

U.S.-Iran deal lifts equities, sends oil lower, while crypto stays wary

The peace deal reached over the weekend provided the stimulus many markets had been waiting for. Crypto traders, however, have learned to distrust this particular headline

Bitcoin daily chart, June 16, 2026

Markets

Middle East ceasefire, Fed interest-rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting June 15.

Federal Reserve Building in Washington D.C.

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Markets

Trump-linked stablecoin used for bonus payouts at White House UFC contest

UFC Freedom 250 paid fighter bonuses in USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump-linked crypto venture World Liberty Financial, at a contest held at the White House.

Eric Trump sits holding a microphone at a panel discussion. (Keith Tanner/CoinDesk)

Markets

Ark Invest bought more than $500 million worth of SpaceX shares on IPO day

The purchases were likely funded by selling other positions, data shows. ARK is also one of the loudest bitcoin bulls, with a million-dollar target for 2030.

Cathie Wood