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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Policy

Tokenization Could Improve Bond Market Efficiency, Hong Kong Regulator Says

A successful $100 million tokenized green bond issuance earlier this year has convinced the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to continue exploring tokenization to improve financial markets.

Hong Kong harbor skyline view into Kowloon

Policy

Prime Trust Lost $8M in Doomed Terra Stablecoin Investment, CEO Says

A separate 2021 wallet bungle by the crypto custodian, taken into receivership in July, cost it $76 million, a court filing said

(Prime Trust, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Is Contacting Low-Cap Crypto Projects in Bid to Boost Trading

The crypto exchange is conducting a "risk management initiative" targeting some crypto projects with a relatively small market capitalization or whose tokens form lower-liquidity trading pairs.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Tech

PancakeSwap Version 3 Goes Live on Ethereum Layer 2 Linea Mainnet

PancakeSwap v3 introduces advanced Swap and Liquidity Provision functionalities, enabling users to trade tokens seamlessly and maximize capital efficiency.

pile of pancakes on a plate.

Finance

Binance to Withdraw Debit Card in Latin America, Middle East

The cryptocurrency exchange said the card service will terminate in the Middle East on Aug. 25 and in Latin America on Sept. 21.

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

SOL, ADA Lead Crypto Majors' Gains as Bitcoin Traders Move Past $1B Liquidation Event

Both tokens rose 3%, bitcoin and ether added as much as 1.2% and bnb (BNB) rallied 1% after staving off concerns about contagion risks in the BNB Chain ecosystem.

(PIX1861/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Hovers Below $26K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for August 23, 2023.

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Markets

Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Uptick Fails to Inspire Bullish Positioning in ETH Options

Options skew remains in favor of ether puts across different timeframes despite the past week's increase in the ETH/BTC ratio.

(PIX1861/Pixabay)

Finance

FBI Says North Korean Hackers May Try to Sell $40M of Bitcoin

The FBI released six wallets linked to North Korean hackers Lazarus Group and APT38.

FBI tracks $40 million of North Korea-linked bitcoin. (David Trinks/Unsplash)

Finance

MoonPay Offers Binance.US a Solution to Crypto Payments Suspension

The U.S. exchange's customers now have the option of buying stablecoin USDT using their debit or credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay and converting it into crypto tokens.

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