Sheldon Reback

Editor, EU News

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk's European news editor. 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 subsequently managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page before becoming the European editor for a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. His previous work as a journalist took him to Hong Kong, where he reported and edited for several technology magazines. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

LATEST FROM SHELDON REBACK

Markets

Robinhood Shares Jump in Premarket Trading After Blowout February Activity Levels

Crypto volumes grew 10% month-on-month to $6.5 billion, the company said.

Mar 14, 2024

Johann Kerbrat, GM of Robinhood Crypto (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Robinhood to Benefit From ‘Monster’ Crypto Cycle, Initiated Outperform by Bernstein

Total crypto market cap is expected to almost triple to $7.5 trillion by 2025, the report said.

Mar 14, 2024

Markets

Arbitrum's ARB, Polygon's MATIC Lead Gains as Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade Goes Live

Ethereum's Dencun upgrade enabled a new way of storing data that was forecast to dramatically cut costs for interacting with layer-2 networks.

Mar 13, 2024

Polygon's MATIC price on March 13 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Staking Protocol Swell Unveils Layer-2 Rollup With $1B Total Value Locked

Swell developed the rollup alongside Ethereum scaler AltLayer and a16z-backed crypto-staking project EigenLayer.

Mar 13, 2024

Citrea says its zero-knowledge rollup will help expand Bitcoin's ability to accommodate NFTs and DeFi. (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

PancakeSwap Decentralized Exchange Unveils Version 4 to Make Trading More Efficient

The DEX plans to add four features designed to make trading faster, cheaper and more customized in the third quarter.

Mar 13, 2024

Markets

First Mover Americas: Coinbase Plans $1B Bond Sale

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 13, 2024.

Mar 13, 2024

Finance

ClearToken Raises $10M From Institutional Investors Including Nomura’s Laser Digital

The crypto clearing house plans to start preliminary settlement services in the U.K. this year, subject to regulatory approval.

Mar 13, 2024

Markets

Bitcoin Eyes $74K as BTC ETFs See Record $1B in Net Inflows

Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds took in 14,706 BTC, or over $1 billion, in net inflows on Tuesday, data tracked by BitMEX Research shows.

Mar 13, 2024

Policy

NFT Providers May Need Registration to Comply With UK Money Laundering Rules

The U.K. started a consultation on its money laundering rules on Monday.

Mar 12, 2024

Crypto lobbying groups are arguing the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority should rethink some of their ideas for regulating stablecoins. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ether.Fi, Liquid Restaking Protocol, to Release ETHFI Token on Binance Launchpool Next Week

Liquid restaking protocols like Ether.Fi are designed to reuse Ethereum's proof-of-stake blockchain to secure other networks and protocols, and have quickly become one of the hottest types of projects in crypto.

Mar 12, 2024

Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)