Sam Reynolds

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.

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First Mover Asia: A Good Week for Exchange Tokens, Except FTT; Solana Continues Falling

During the past week, a number of exchange tokens have outperformed bitcoin, including OKX and CRO. FTT is not among them.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO de FTX. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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FTT-Alameda Drama Weighs on Market as Asia Begins Its Week

FTT, SOL, and BNB all begin the week in the red as the market digests Alameda’s questionable financial position.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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First Mover Asia: FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Talks Consumer Protection and Crypto Titans Clash

Consumer protection and regulation are key ingredients to transforming digital assets into an asset class worth trillions. The FTX exchange's Sam Bankman-Fried weighs in. Meanwhile, FTX's FTT token takes a dive after rival Binance announces plans to dump its remaining holdings.

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First Mover Asia: Alameda Research, FTX Are Bound to Each Other; Bitcoin Trades Sideways, Dogecoin Plunges Late as Twitter Halts Work on Crypto Wallet

A recent Alameda document showed the biggest asset on the organization's balance sheet was FTX’s FTT token.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

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Did Sponsoring Stadiums Bring New Crypto Traders, or Tourists?

By some metrics, Crypto.com and FTX’s stadium sponsorship campaigns were a remarkable success. Whether they succeeded in onboarding a new generation of crypto traders remains to be seen.

The exterior of the Crypto.com Arena (Getty Images)

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Dapper Labs Cuts 22% of Staff as NFT Market Craters

Sales volume for Dapper Labs' NBA Top Shot has declined to $2.6 million from $224 million in February 2021.

NBA Top Shot. (Dapper Labs)

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First Mover Asia: Ripple's APAC Policy Chief Sees Hopeful Shift in Hong Kong Crypto Statement; Dogecoin Soars Again

But Rahul Advani told CoinDesk the industry needs more details about the city’s plans.

Hong Kong skyline (bady abbas/unsplash)

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First Mover Asia: Scams on Binance's BNB Chain Highlight Weaknesses in Quality Control; Bitcoin Sags

A Solidus Labs report showed that Binance’s BNB Chain leads in volume of scams.

(Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Crowdfunding Platform StartEngine to Acquire Rival SeedInvest From Circle

StartEngine CEO Howard Marks says security token efforts will continue on the combined platform, and terms of the deal were undisclosed.

StartEngine CEO Howard Marks delivering a keynote at the StartEngine Summit conference (StartEngine)

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Most Crypto Scams on BNB Chain, Solidus Labs Says

Crypto risk monitoring platform says it has flagged nearly 200,000 crypto rug pulls and decentralized finance scams since August 2020.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Emily Parker, CoinDesk executive director (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)