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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Tech

Blockchain Bridging Protocol LayerZero to Connect With Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock

Rootstock's aim is to end Bitcoin's "isolation" from other chains due to its lack of native smart contracts.

Tree roots (StockSnap/Pixabay)

Finance

Ethereum L1 Monad Joins Forces With Orderly Network for DeFi Boost

The arrival of the Monad testnet will provide traders with a fast EVM-compatible building site and the possibility of airdrops on the L1.

Orderly Chief Operating Officer Arjun Arora (Orderly)

Policy

EToro Secures MiCA License From Cyprus to Offer Crypto Services Across EEA

The approval allows the trading platform to expand its digital asset offerings across all 30 European Economic Area countries.

EU flag and other flags (Yuedongzi CHAI/ Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Eyes U.S. Expansion: Bloomberg

The expansion is driven by optimism about potential regulatory changes under the Trump administration.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Wingbits to Launch Satellite to Boost Flight Tracking Accuracy

The Swedish DePIN startup is taking on incumbents like FlightAware and Flightradar24 with a decentralized approach that rewards hobbyist data collectors.

Rocket taking off. (NASA, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

FTX’s Initial $1.2B Payout Process to Creditors Is Underway

The payments are being distributed in U.S. dollars through BitGo and Kraken.

FTX logo (Adobe Firefly)

Finance

Blockchain Security Firm Blockaid Raises $50M to Tackle On-Chain Threats

The funding will help the company scale operations as blockchain adoption accelerates.

Padlock and chain (Georg Bommeli/ Unsplash)

Markets

U.S.-Listed Bitcoin Miners Accounted for 29% of Global Hashrate in February: JPMorgan

Mining economics came under pressure as the network hashrate rose while the bitcoin price fell, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Robinhood to Introduce Crypto Products in Singapore This Year: Bloomberg

The trading platform plans to debut the products after completing its purchase of Bitstamp.

Singapore (Getty Images / Unsplash)