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

Travel Rule Compliance Surges on New Regs, Stablecoin Payments, Notabene Says

Notabene’s annual survey of crypto firms found that almost all respondents expect to be Travel Rule compliant by mid-2025.

Notabene CEO Pelle Braendgaard (Notabene)

Markets

Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Surge Shows Investor Confidence on Trade Deals, Powell

Bitcoin and ether saw notable price gains Tuesday as U.S. officials raised hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal.

Photo of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Markets

Cardano’s ADA, Ether Lead Market Gains as Bitcoin ‘Decoupling’ Continues

“Bitcoin is continuing to show signs of its own decoupling away from equity markets,” one watcher said.

A drawing of two hands touching fingertip to fingertip (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash)

Markets

Strike CEO Mallers to Lead Bitcoin Investment Company Backed by Tether, Softbank, Brandon Lutnick

Crypto power players back $3B bitcoin SPAC as Trump-era policies spark new wave of institutional bets.

Howard Lutnick is a fan of bitcoin and Tether's USDT. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Arch Labs Raises $13M in Funding for Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts

The funding round, which valued Arch Labs at $200 million, was led by Pantera Capital.

16:9 Arch (LoggaWiggler/Pixabay)

Finance

What Is TAO, the Bittensor Token Causing Friction Between Barry Silbert and Bitcoiners?

TAO has a 21 million fixed token supply and goes through block reward halvings, like BTC.

DCG founder Barry Silbert (DCG)

Policy

ECB, European Commission Clash on MiCA Changes Over U.S. Crypto Policies: Report

The European Central Bank said U.S. support for crypto could result in damage to the European Union's financial stability.

 EU flag (Unsplash)

Finance

Interoperability Project Analog Raises $15M to Unify Liquidity Across Blockchains

Digital asset financier Bolts Capital completed the token purchase to bring Analog's total backing to $36 million.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Rises to $90K for the First Time Since Early March

U.S. equities rally over 1% on "Turnaround Tuesday," adding momentum to bitcoin’s breakout above $90,000.

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