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

Bitcoin Holds $61K After a Brief Nosedive

Bitcoin briefly touched $59K in the early hours of the Asian+ trading day.

(CoinDesk Indices)

Policy

Julian Assange Reaches Plea Deal With U.S. DOJ

Wikileaks co-founder pleads guilty to single espionage charge in exchange to a sentence for time served.

(Alisdare Hickson/Wikimedia)

Markets

Canada's 3iQ Files to List Solana ETP in Toronto

3iQ was a leader in getting some of the first crypto ETFs past the finish line and listed on the TSX

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Original TRUMP Token Struggles With Exchange Listings as DJT Rockets

Exchanges will list TREMP but not TRUMP, claiming the latter is "too political."

(Paul Casals/Unsplash)

Markets

PoliFi Tokens Down Double Digits on Claims DJT Token Has Trump's Backing

If reports about DJT are true, this would be the first time a presidential candidate from a major party created a cryptocurrency. That appears to be a big "if."

Trump and son in 2017 (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Markets

Trump and Biden Likely Won't Shake Hands at Debate, Prediction Market Says

Meanwhile, there's a prediction market on whether the U.K. newspaper The Guardian will correct an article unflattering to prediction markets.

They didn't shake hands last time, but that was during the plague. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Policy

U.S. Judge Signs Off on $4.5B Terraform-Do Kwon Settlement With SEC

The settlement bans Kwon and Terraform Labs from buying and selling crypto asset securities while agreeing to pay $4.5 billion in disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon (CoinDesk TV)

Tech

HLG Down Over 60% as Exploiter Mints 1 Billion New Tokens

The team behind the Holograph (HLG) said they have patched the exploit and is working with centralized exchanges to freeze accounts affiliated with the exploiter

(Alpha Rad/Unsplash)

Markets

Paxos Cuts 20% of Staff: Reports

A Bloomberg report says the company will have an increased focus on tokenization.

Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

ERCOT CEO: Texas' Power Grid Needs Larger Increase Than Expected to Handle AI, Bitcoin Mining

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas' CEO said in Senate testimony that the state's grid capacity will need to double in the next decade to handle demand, while the Lieutenant Governor of Texas says more scrutiny is coming for this industry.

(Dale Honeycutt/Unsplash)