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

Bitcoin Debate on Looser Data Limits Brings to Mind the Divisive Ordinals Controversy

Removing the blockchain's OP_RETURN size controls would allow more data to be embedded in transactions. Critics say this will only be used for spam.

Three people, including Peter Todd, sit at a panel discussion.

Markets

BlackRock, BNY Team Up to Tokenize Shares of $150B Treasury Trust Fund, SEC Filing Shows

BlackRock will work with BNY Mellon in creating a new class of Distributed Ledger Technology shares for the fund.

(BlackRock)

Finance

Telegram’s TON Takes On Real World Assets With Libre’s $500M Tokenized Bond Fund

Libre’s Telegram Bond Fund ($TBF) will offer accredited investors institutional-grade yield products that will also be available as collateral for on-chain borrowing and product development on TON,

Libre CEO Avtar Sehra sits on a chair in front of a microphone (Libre)

Finance

UK Government Targets Exchanges and Stablecoins With New Draft Crypto Rules

The statutory instruments will see the creation of new regulated activities such as operating a cryptoasset trading exchange and stablecoin issuance.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Finance

How $330M BTC Hacker May Have Doubled Down on Monero Derivatives

Monero rose by 45% after a flurry of spot buys, but open interest increased by 107%.

Hacker working on two laptops (Azamat E/Unsplash)

Markets

Viant Technology Could Benefit From Buying Bitcoin, Eric Semler Says

The Semler Scientific chairman flagged the ad tech firm as ripe for a bitcoin treasury strategy amid stock struggles and cash stockpile.

A fire-destroyed, dead forest of leafless trees (Sergey Nikolaev/Unsplash)

Finance

Circle Wins Regulatory Nod From Abu Dhabi Watchdog as USDC Hits $62B

The stablecoin issuer received in-principle approval from ADGM's Financial Services Regulatory Authority to operate as a money services provider.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

DOJ Seeks 20-Year Sentence for Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky

Federal prosecutors called Mashinsky the architect of a "years-long campaign of lies and self-dealing" that left customers with billions in losses.

Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky in shadow against a dark backgroud