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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Finance

Crypto firms cut hundreds of jobs in weeks, blaming weak markets, strong AI

A wave of crypto job cuts in early 2026 exposes the gap between two convenient narratives: macro headwinds and AI transformation.

A brown bear sits on the ground (LTapsaH/Pixabay)

Markets

Strategy set for second-biggest bitcoin buying quarter despite BTC price slide

First-quarter purchases have reached 89,618 BTC so far, the most since fourth-quarter 2024, and the quarter is not yet over.

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Finance

It could cost you up to $6 million to grab lunch with Donald Trump

Qualifying for Trump’s crypto gala can cost as little as $70,000 or as much as several million, with rankings driven by timing and strategy rather than sheer holdings.

Donald Trump (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Kalshi valuation doubles to $22 billion in latest funding round: Bloomberg

The new $1 billion investment round indicates that interest in the embattled prediction market remains.

Kalshi co-founders Luana Lopes Lara and Tarek Mansour (Kalshi)

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Markets

Coinbase introduces stock perpetual futures contracts for non-U.S. customers

The contracts trade 24/7, are cash-settled in USDC and allow for up to 10-times leverage on single-stock contracts and 20-times on ETF products.

Coinbase app on a mobile phone screen (appshunter.io/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto market steadies as derivatives signal caution, macro pressure builds

BTC holds near $70,500 as derivatives turn defensive, macro risks weigh on sentiment and altcoins show pockets of strength.

A see-saw sits unused in a playground

Tech

OpenClaw developers targeted in GitHub phishing scam offering fake token airdrops

Security researchers said attackers are impersonating OpenClaw on GitHub, luring developers with bogus CLAW token giveaways that trick users into connecting their crypto wallets.

Hackers and scammers. (Credit: Max Bender/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Policy

ECB seeks experts to help integrate digital euro into ATMs, card payment terminals

The European Central Bank is preparing the ground should legislators enable the issuance of a digital currency and the bank's governing council approve issuing it.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

Markets

Bitcoin’s biggest DeFi drawback under attack as OpNet unlocks smart contracts on mainnet

Bitcoin’s biggest limitation is being challenged as OpNet brings native, yield-generating DeFi directly to the Bitcoin mainnet.

Abstract blockchain networks illustration with glowing cubes representing digital assets