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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Policy

Trump to Host First Crypto Roundtable at White House Next Week

Crypto and AI Czar David Sacks, "prominent founders, CEOs and investors" will convene at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Sen. John Boozman, David Sacks, Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. French Hill (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Federal Judge Dismisses SEC Case Against Richard Heart, Citing Lack of Jurisdiction

Heart raised over $1 billion across three different unregistered securities offerings, the SEC had alleged

Richard Heart, creator of the Hex token and PulseChain platforms, in a circa 2017 YouTube video. (Richard Heart/YouTube)

Finance

Here's How Mainland China May Allow Chinese Traders Access to Bitcoin

Beijing isn't going to allow crypto exchanges to directly operate BTC in China, but there might be a way that Hong Kong crypto ETFs can be traded in the mainland.

Yifan He, CEO of Red Date technology. (CoinDesk, Personae Digital)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

WisdomTree Launches ETP Based on CoinDesk 20

WisdomTree's new product offers exposure to the largest digital assets

Dovile Silenskyte, Director of Digital Assets Research at WisdomTree, and Alan Campbell, President of CoinDesk Indices, speak at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk. (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Markets

Javier Milei Faces Charges in Argentina Over LIBRA: AP

Milei deleted posts promoting the token and claimed he was unaware of its development.

Argentina's President Javier Milei at Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 (Getty Images)

Finance

Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders' Pocket $87M

Milei deleted his original promotional tweet and revealed that he wasn't aware of its details.

(Planet Volumes/Unsplash)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Justin Sun on Mars, Tropico, Game of Thrones, and That Banana

Sam Reynolds meets TRON's founder at home in Hong Kong.

Crypto's Justin Sun (Tron)

Markets

Bitcoin Miner Riot Adds New Board Member to Push AI Pivot

Riot also announced it has hired investment banks Evercore and Northland Capital Markets to lead discussions with potential AI and HPC partners.

mining rig. (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Markets

LinksDAO Plans to Launch a Community Token on Base

LinksDAO began by selling NFTs, but the market has moved on in the time since.

(Steven Shircliff/Unsplash)