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

Philippines to Sell Tokenized Treasury Bond Next Week

The Bureau of the Treasury has set a minimum target of 10 billion pesos.

Manilla Bay, Philippines.

Finance

Tokenization Firm Superstate Gets $14M Investment to Bring Traditional Funds On-Chain

The company has earmarked the funds for team expansion, creating private funds for institutional investors and crafting a framework for tokenized public funds that U.S. clients can access.

Robert Leshner, CEO of Superstate (Superstate)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Singapore Central Bank Tests Tokenization Alongside JPMorgan, BNY Mellon

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 15, 2023.

Singapore skyline (Mike Enerio/Unsplash)

Policy

Kazakhstan Central Bank Marks Digital Tenge Pilot With First Retail Payment

The National Bank of Kazakhstan plans to implement a digital tenge by the end of 2025.

Kazakhstan cityscape landscape (Alexander Serzhantov/Unsplash)

Markets

DYDX Pumps Ahead of Massive $500M Token Unlock

The decentralized exchange debuted its layer 1 blockchain based on Cosmos this week.

DYDX token unlock (token.unlocks)

Policy

Singapore Central Bank Starts Tokenization Pilots Alongside JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, DBS

The test will explore bilateral digital asset trades, foreign currency payments, multicurrency clearing and settlement, fund management and automated portfolio rebalancing.

Night view of Singapore taken across the water.

Markets

Bitcoin's Options Market Has Overtaken Its Futures Market in a Sign of Growing Sophistication

The notional open interest in BTC options worldwide stood at $17.5 billion at press time, while open interest in the futures market was $15.84 billion.

Total BTC options open interest (CoinGlass)

Policy

U.S. CBDC Is Unlikely in the Near Term: Bank of America

The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

OMG Token Surges 16% as Vitalik Buterin Hails the 'Return of Plasma'

Buterin wrote that he believes Plasma, an Ethereum scaling technology that has been ousted by rollups, has the potential to reduce transaction fees.

Vitalik Buterin shares a new blog post on Ethereum's roadmap to address scaling, privacy, and wallet security. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Q3 Net Loss More Than Doubles as Production Slumps

The firm said it mined fewer coins due to a higher network difficulty, operational issues and the suspension of some operations.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)