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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Markets

First Mover Asia: Speculating on Tokenized Carbon Offsets Won't Help Climate Crisis, Says Consultant; BTC Falls Under $19K Amid Wider Crypto Woes

A significant number of carbon credits are from projects 8-10 years old; Ether and other major altcoins plummet.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

Messari Research: DCG’s Barry Silbert Wins From SEC ETF Stalemate, but Investors Lose

Messari’s Ryan Selkis says Grayscale's product is broken, but SEC leadership won't let the company fix it.

Grayscale's new ad campaign can be seen in New York's Penn Station. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

OpenSea Reports Email Data Breach

An employee at an outside contractor tasked with managing OpenSea email newsletters copied the list of customer emails and shared it with an outside party, OpenSea says.

(OpenSea/CoinDesk, modified by PhotoMosh)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Remember ICOs? You Would Have Made a Fortune if You HODLed; Bitcoin Slogs Toward $20K

Investors who purchased a breadbasket of blue chip coin offerings about five years ago would have generated an 819% return, even with the current bear market; most cryptos fell in Tuesday trading.

Investors who hodled "blue chip" ICOs generated sizable returns. (Cryptograffiti)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Chip Maker Nvidia Isn’t an Ether Proxy, Bitcoin Holds Near $21K

Crypto mining aided Nvidia's bottom line, but it hasn't been a major cause of the stock's steep decline. Ether falls but hovers at around $1,200.

An Asus graphics card. (Joseph Greve/Unsplash)

Finance

Nexo Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to Anonymous Twitter Account Accusing It of Embezzlement

The crypto lender responds to claims that its co-founder stole money from a charity.

(Rich Miller/Flickr)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Holds Above $21K in Weekend Trading, Solana Web3 Phone Faces Long Odds

Ether stays over $1,200; prior blockchain phones have failed because the market has realized their functionalities are already available on apps that can be loaded on any phone.

Bitcoin was down slightly on Sunday, but still trading at over $21,000. (Jay Radhakrishnan)

Finance

Dubai Regulator: Three Arrows Capital Isn’t Registered Here

The Dubai Financial Services Authority says the embattled crypto fund has not set up shop in the emirate, despite stated plans.

3AC co-founder Su Zhu speaks at Crypto Bahamas. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Hong Kong’s OSL Sees Strong Institutional Interest in Crypto, Despite Luna-Induced Volatility; Bitcoin and Ether Surge

Fernando Martinez, OSL's head of Americas, said global, institutional trading volume is higher than it was in 2021, the best year in the crypto exchange’s history. Altcoins have a good day.

Hong Kong where Tether is headquartered (Ruslan Bardash/Unsplash).

Tech

Tech Giants Create Metaverse Standards Forum for Software and Terminology Standards

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Unity, Sony, and 30 other companies are coming together to build the infrastructure for an interoperable metaverse.

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