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

Revolut to Strengthen Crypto Fraud Protections With Added Security, Risk Scores

The Revolut Pay enhanced due diligence API will be rolled out to crypto customers from start of 2025.

Revolut app

Markets

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Put Options at $30, $35 Price Levels See Volume Spike

The spike in activity likely stems from "cash-secured" selling of the options by traders who missed the rally in the ETF.

Stablecoin inflows have stalled ahead of the CPI report.(sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)

Markets

Miners Are Adopting the Same Bitcoin Acquisition Strategy as MicroStrategy: JPMorgan

The strategic shift to a bitcoin accumulation model is due to pressure on profitability following the reward halving, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Societe Generale Conducts Blockchain-Based Repo Transaction With French Central Bank

SocGen is claiming bragging rights as the first to conduct an on-chain repo transaction with a European central bank.

SocGen branch

Finance

Michael Sonnenshein, Ex-Grayscale CEO, Joins Tokenization Firm Securitize as COO

Sonnenshein left asset management firm Grayscale, issuer of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs, earlier this year.

Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

Finance

Ranger Finance Targets Crypto Perps Traders of 'Size' on Solana

Solana's first crypto perpetuals aggregators service wants to compete with market leader Hyperliquid.

whaling

Finance

Hut 8 Rises 12% Pre-Market Amid Social-Media Talk of Partnership With Meta

HUT shares climbed to just under $30 as of 10:00 UTC, over 11.75% higher than its Wednesday closing price of $26.69.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)