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

Franklin Templeton Takes Its Tokenized Treasury Fund to Base, Becomes First Asset Manager on the Layer 2

The $410 million fund is also available on Stellar, Aptos, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Polygon.

Base booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Aims to Make BTC a Programmable Asset With ZK Proofs, Raises $14M Series A

The goal of allowing greater utility on the Bitcoin blockchain is one of almost existential importance, according to Citrea.

Citrea's co-creators (Citrea)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Returns to $72.5K in Muted Market Activity

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 31, 2024.

BTC price, FMA Oct. 31 2024 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Robinhood's Stock Tumbles After Earnings Miss, While JMP Analyst Remains Bullish

The company missed consensus revenue expectations, Wall Street analysts said.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Finance

Archax to Buy Spanish Broker King & Shaxson Capital Markets to Expand in Europe

Completion of the acquisition is subject to regulatory approval in Spain.

(engin akyurt/Unsplash)

Markets

Coinbase's Earnings Miss Makes U.S. Election Even Bigger Catalyst: Analysts

The market will now be watching the U.S. presidential election as an important short-term catalyst for Coinbase and the wider industry.

Coinbase (PiggyBank/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Prices Take Breather as BTC ETFs Record Another Day of Monster Inflows

Strong net flows into bitcoin exchange-traded funds indicate robust institutional demand as BTC dominance rises at the expense of ether, one trader noted.

Ethereum ETFs drew in inflows despite ETH's plunge on Monday.(Shutterstock)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

BlackRock's Entry Into Crypto Matters More Than U.S. Election, QCP Capital's Darius Sit Says

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink appearing on CNBC means more to QCP's founder and chief investment officer rather than presidential candidates promoting crypto.

QCP Capital's Darius Sit (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

Markets

Degens Are Searching for Further Leverage on MicroStrategy and Winning Massively

The T-REX 2X long MSTR Daily Target ETF (MSTU) has rallied 235% since its introduction six weeks ago, an annualized equivalent return of 57,000%, according to Bloomberg analysis.

Michael Saylor at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee

Tech

Venn Network Aims to Solve DeFi's Hacking Problem With More Decentralized Tech

Creator Or Dadosh says Venn creates a "completely new economy" for crypto security.

Ironblocks' Venn aims to prevent suspicious transactions from accessing a blockchain. (serghei_topor/Pixabay)