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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Markets

Moody’s awards top rating to Fidelity and BlackRock's tokenized money market funds

The AAA rating signals the highest level of credit quality, liquidity and capital preservation.

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Policy

UK parliament to probe Nigel Farage’s $6.8 million donation from crypto billionaire

If found guilty of violating the Parliamentary code of conduct, the Reform UK party leader could be suspended from the House of Commons.

Nigel Farage. (Reform UK)

Finance

Crypto wallet provider Ledger puts U.S. IPO plans on hold due to market conditions

The French crypto security firm, which is said to have explored a potential $4 billion U.S. listing, is reassessing its public market plans as volatile conditions weigh on investor appetite for crypto IPOs.

Ledger (Flickr)

Markets

Anthropic, OpenAI tokens plunge as AI firms say pre-IPO share transfers are invalid

Tokens on Solana that claim to track the private-market valuations of Anthropic and OpenAI dropped sharply this week after both AI companies warned that the structures used to back the tokens may be invalid.

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Markets

Bitcoin holds below $81,000 with Trump-Xi talks on the horizon

Bitcoin held steady before President Donald Trump's with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

A lone guard stands in an empty square at the entrance to the Forbidden City, Beijing.

Finance

Charles Schwab begins U.S. rollout of spot crypto trading for retail customers

An initial group of clients can now trade bitcoin and ether on the Schwab Crypto platform.

Facade of Charles Schwab office building with visible logo

Finance

EToro reiterates commitment to crypto despite falling activity in Q1

CEO Yoni Assia says he’s bullish on crypto and expects to see it back to all-time highs this year even as crypto derivatives trading on eToro dropped.

EToro CEO Yoni Assia. (Vanja Savic/Wikimedia Commons)

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Finance

Binance's chief marketing officer Rachel Conlan to leave the exchange

Eowyn Chen, former CEO of Trust Wallet, will serve as her interim replacement.

CMO Rachel Conlan (Binance)

Markets

Spot XRP ETFs attract biggest inflows since January

The five U.S.-listed spot XRP funds pulled in $25.8 million on Monday, the largest single-day net inflow since Jan. 5, even as ether spot ETFs shed nearly $17 million.

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