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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Tech

Tornado Cash Co-Founder Says the Mixer Protocol Is Unstoppable

Roman Semenov says Tornado Cash is designed so a third-party can’t control it.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Semenov (Roman Semenov)

Finance

Crypto.com’s Stolen Ether Being Mixed Through Tornado Cash

The Ethereum mixer is being used to obscure destinations of ETH pilfered from the crypto exchange.

(NOAA CC BY 2.0)

Finance

Is Tornado Cash Complicit in Laundering Crypto? It’s Complicated, Says Former DEA Agent

Obfuscation of the money trail isn’t necessarily money laundering, according to the expert, but it still makes the protocol worthy of being treated with suspicion.

(Getty)

Finance

The Father of PlayStation Doesn’t Like Metaverse or VR Headsets

PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi equates the Metaverse to nothing more than an anonymous message board.

A Playstation VR headset (Sony)

Markets

Bitcoin Dips Below $40K During Broader Asia Market Sell-Off

Ether, Solana and other layer 1-associated coins also slip during Asia trading day

Bitcoin's price fell below $40,000 for the first time in months in the early hours of Jan. 21. (CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index)

Markets

Stader Labs Raises $12M in Strategic Sale as It Builds ‘Staking as a Service’ Business

Stader Labs CEO Amitej Gajjala puts the market for staking at $250 billion.

Stader Labs CEO Amitej Gajjala (provided)

Finance

Southeast Asia Gaming Guild Ancient8 Raises $4M Seed Round

The funding round was led by Dragonfly Capital, Pantera Capital and Hashed.

(AxieInfinity.com)

Finance

Crypto.com Capital Expands $200M Fund to $500M

Newly hired GP Jon Russell says a larger pool of capital is coming from Crypto.com’s balance sheet.

Bobby Bao, head of Crypto.com Capital, and co-founder of Crypto.com (Crypto.com)

Markets

Fidelity: ‘Countries That Secure Some Bitcoin Today Will Be Better Off Than Their Peers’

Even if a country doesn’t agree with the fundamentals of bitcoin, it will be forced to acquire some as a form of insurance, Fidelity wrote in a recent report.

Pedestrians pass a Fidelity Investments office in Boston, Ma

Markets

Crypto.com Capital Hires Jon Russell as GP, Hints at Expanding Fund Size

Russell spent 10 years as a tech journalist, including stints at The Ken and Tech Crunch.

Crypto.com Capital has hired Jon Russell as a general partner. (Jon Russell)