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

Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories

Washington kept crypto’s biggest legislative hope alive, Wall Street pushed deeper into digital assets, and a security scare sent billions of dollars of bitcoin moving between wallets.

Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Harold Mendoza/Unsplash)

Finance

Wall Street's private blockchain obsession is a 'race to the bottom,' Ethereum advocate Raman warns

Centrally controlled, permission-only networks have a role to play in finance, but need a transparent, open base to reap the benefits blockchain technology offers.

Etherealize co-founder Vivek Raman (Etherealize)

Markets

Bitcoin slips as U.S. inflation fails to spark gains, ETFs see August's first two-day drawdown

Spot bitcoin ETFs saw back-to-back outflows for the first time since late July as the largest cryptocurrency wiped out last week's gains and altcoins struggled to find direction.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

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Finance

RedotPay said to put $1 billion U.S. IPO plan on hold: Bloomberg

A spokesperson for the stablecoin payments company declined to comment on any IPO plans.

Front of the New York Stock Exchange (Irvin Liang/Unsplash)

Finance

Swissquote cuts full-year guidance as 1H crypto income plunges, shares slide

The online bank cut full-year revenue and profit forecasts after first-half crypto trading levels slumped.

Swiss flag in alpine landscape, symbolizing Sygnum’s Swiss roots (Janosch Diggelmann/Unsplash)

Finance

Bullish shares surge 14% as subscription revenue offsets digital asset slowdown

Bullish's second-quarter loss of $280 million was mostly attributable to a $244.6 million markdown on the company’s bitcoin holdings.

Tom Farley, CEO of Bullish, and Lynn Martin, President of the New York Stock Exchange, speak at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk.(Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

Markets

Bitcoin holds steady near $64,000 as monero, hyperliquid outperform

Crypto markets remain in a low volatility holding pattern, trading in a tight range following Wednesday's CPI report.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

MUFG to test real-time blockchain settlement for Japanese government bond trades

MUFG is preparing a proof-of-concept for onchain JGB transactions using the Canton network.

A low rectangular monument-style sign displays the MUFG logo and is surrounded by shrubs.