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

Fireblocks Adds Support for Sony's Soneium, First Step in Provision of Custody Services

Support for Soneium is a precursor for firms to use Fireblocks' technology to provide crypto custody services on the month-old blockchain.

Sony (CoinDesk Archives)

Policy

Hong Kong Confirms Bitcoin, Ether Can Be Used to Prove Wealth for Investment Visa

Hong Kong's New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme, a visa targeting wealthy migrants, accepts crypto as a means to prove required net worth, a spokesperson confirms.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Hong Kong’s Patient Approach to Regulating Crypto Will Pay Off: LegCo's Duncan Chiu

Devising clear rules for the industry is important, but it can also help to wait for others to move first, argues Chiu.

Duncan Chiu

Markets

Polymarket Bettors Punt $1.1B on Superbowl Results, Despite Regulatory Overhang

The Philadelphia Eagles won the Superbowl, but the Kansas City Chiefs were the early favorite on Polymarket.

A football placed on a field. (Dave Adamson/Unsplash)

Markets

Law Firm Behind Pump.Fun Class Action Demands Removal of Tokens Mocking It

Burwick Law proposed a class action lawsuit in January alleging Pump.Fun was engaged in violating securities laws

lawsuit

Markets

Tiger21 Founder Michael Sonnenfeldt Says Ultra-Rich are Bullish on BTC

Tiger21 members have roughly $6 billion in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

(André François McKenzie/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitdeer Buys 101 MW Gas Power Plant in Alberta, Canada for BTC Mining

The $21.7 million cash deal would give BitDeer the ability to mine BTC at some of the lowest costs in the industry.

A farmer's field in Alberta, Canada (Priscilla Du Preez/Unsplash)

Policy

Howard Lutnick Softens Stance on Tether Stability, Investment Ties

The Cantor Fitzgerald chair was grilled about prior bullish statements made about Tether during a recent Senate hearing.

Cantor Fitzgerald's Howard Lutnick (World Economic Forum)

Policy

Probe of Crypto.com, Kalshi’s Super Bowl Bets Is About the Nature of ‘Gaming’: Crypto Lawyer

The regulator's probe is focused on the issue of sports being considered gaming, said New York-based crypto lawyer Aaron Brogan.

A football placed on a field. (Dave Adamson/Unsplash)

Markets

TRON, Movement Labs Deny ‘Token Swap’ Deal for World Liberty Financial Inclusion

A report alleges that projects were pitched on a $10 million - $15 million buy-in on the Trump-backed project.

Screen grab from Trump's teaser of the new World Liberty Financial crypto company (Rug Radio, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)