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

Bitcoin Investment Products Saw Inflows of $570M Last Week: CoinShares

Crypto-focused investment products saw the fourth consecutive week of net inflows, data shows.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Correction Could Be Approaching

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 26, 2024.

Bitcoin's price (CoinDesk)

Finance

BitForex Website Goes Dark Amid Reported $57M Outflow

The exchange's CEO stepped down in January.

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Policy

Crypto, Tokenization, AI Are Priorities for Monitoring, FSB Says Ahead of G20 Meeting

The Financial Stability Board plans to publish a status report on its crypto roadmap and a report on the financial stability implications of tokenization.

FSB identifies crypto, tokenization and AI as priorities ahead of G20 meeting. (Benjamin Child/ Unsplash)

Finance

Frax Finance Mulls Uniswap-Like Reward Mechanism for Token Stakers

"We are going to follow Uniswap's lead in proposing it. It will be up to the community to pass it," CEO Sam Kazemian said.

Frax Finance's Sam Kaizeman (Wikipedia)

Markets

Bitcoin Indicator Suggests Potential for Leverage Washout

A ratio related to bitcoin futures and the volatility of options has more than doubled this year, signaling outsized levels of leverage and speculation.

Graph superimposed over a markets monitor

Finance

MicroStrategy’s X Account Hacked, Leads to $440K Crypto Being Stolen: Blockchain Sleuth ZachXBT

The phishing attempt has already led to $440,000 worth of crypto being stolen.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Markets

Uniswap's UNI Jumps 60% on Proposal to Reward Token Holders in Major Governance Overhaul

The upgrade would reward UNI token holders who staked and delegated their tokens, according to the proposal.

Uniswap's UNI token price (CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Worldcoin, The Graph and Filecoin Finish the Week on Top

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 23, 2024.

Top Weekly Gainers (CoinMarketCap)

Policy

Trump: Bitcoin Has Taken on 'a Life of Its Own,' Will Probably Need Some Regulation

The former U.S. president had previously said he was "not a fan" of cryptocurrencies and called central bank digital currencies dangerous, vowing not to allow them if elected.

(NIPYATA!/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)