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

Gemini Announces Full Recovery of Earn Users' Digital Assets

In-kind recovery of Gemini Earn users' funds means they'll get 232% of the value of their assets back.

Money (Alexander Mils/Unsplash)

Policy

Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison

Salame's lawyers had asked for 18 months.

Ryan Salame leaving a New York courthouse on Sept. 7, 2023. (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Policy

Consensus 2024 Week: The House Passed a Market Structure Bill

The House of Representatives passed a crypto market structure bill in an interesting first for the legislature.

U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

News Analysis

Trump Widens Lead Over With Biden (on Polymarket and PredictIt) After Courting Crypto Vote

Plus: how much longshot money was made betting on the SEC approving an Ethereum ETF?

Trump arrives at an NFT dinner in May 2024. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Uniswap Foundation Shares Balance Sheet as Fee Vote Nears

The Uniswap Foundation's balance sheet shows $41.41 million in fiat and stablecoins and 730,000 UNI tokens.

Floatie in the form of a unicorn, the emblematic mythical creature featured in Uniswap's logo and marketing materials. (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Donald Trump-Themed Meme Coins Breed Crypto Millionaires as MAGA Token Surged

Analysis by Nansen shows that early TRUMP holders made an ROI of over 1,600% from the PoliFi token.

Trump comments on BTC (Jon Tyson/Unsplash)

Markets

Ether Surges 17%, Polymarket Approval Chances Rocket as ETF Makes Regulatory Progress

The U.S. SEC has asked exchanges to update 19b-4 filings for ether ETFs ahead of a key deadline, suggesting potential approval progress, though approval is not guaranteed.

(CoinDesk Indices)

Policy

NYAG Takes Victory Lap as Court Approves Genesis Settlement

NYAG says the settlement will establish a fund for New Yorkers who invested more than $1.1 billion in Genesis through the Gemini Earn program and blocks Genesis from operating in the state.

New York Skyline (Lukas Kloeppel/Pexels)

Policy

Democrat House Leadership Says Crypto Bill Vote Won't Be Whipped

Ranking members strongly oppose this bill as written, an email obtained by Politico reads.

(Andy Feliciotti/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Gaming Token Gala Stabilizes as Company Says Security Incident 'Contained'

Someone minted 5 billion GALA tokens and then sold them on decentralized exchange Uniswap.

(Alpha Rad/Unsplash)