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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News Analysis

Will RFK Jr. Debate Trump or Biden? Probably Not, Prediction Market Says

Plus: Which cat-themed memecoin will hit $1 billion first?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Gage Skidmore)

Markets

Ether, Bitcoin Open Asia Trading Week Flat as ETH ETF Decision, Nvidia Earnings Loom

The market has priced in a rejection for the first set of Ethereum ETFs, but there are reasons to be optimistic about an approval next year, says one fund manager.

(CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

Genesis Set to Return $3B Customer Assets in Finalized Bankruptcy Liquidation Plan

Bankruptcy claims began trading at 35% of account balance value when they were initially listed on claim trading marketplace Xclaim.

Genesis (Spencer Wing/Pixabay)

Markets

Fantom Outperforms CoinDesk 20 Over Past Week as TVL Jumps

FTM has gained 13% in the last week, and total value locked in Fantom briefly hit $200 million.

(CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

Eclipse Labs Promotes Vijay Chetty to CEO Nearly a Week After Neel Somani's Ouster

Neel Somani, the founder and CEO of Eclipse Labs, stepped down after sexual misconduct allegations recently surfaced.

Lunar eclipse (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Huobi Hong Kong Withdraws License Application for the Second Time

HBGL Hong Kong Limited, the entity behind Huobi Hong Kong, first withdrew and then re-submitted its application for a Hong Kong VATP license in February.

Hong Kong (Ruslan Bardash / Unsplash)

Finance

Degen Chain Back Online After Two-Day Hiatus

The layer-3 blockchain for meme coins was offline for over 50 hours.

(Kelly-Sikkema via Unsplash)

Policy

Former FTX Exec Ryan Salame Asks for Lenient 18 Months in Prison

Salame's attorneys highlight that he wasn't involved in the core fraud perpetuated by Sam Bankman-Fried, and he has had nearly his entire net worth destroyed by the implosion of FTX.

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

Finance

Coinbase Resumes Operations After 3-Hour Outage

Some users may still be experiencing a "degraded" service, the exchange said.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

News Analysis

Trump and Biden Tied on Polymarket, Diverging From Polls

Other election contracts show a 35% chance of a Republican sweep of the presidency and both houses of Congress and a 27% chance Democrats control the Senate after the election.

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - OCTOBER 22: U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on October 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. This is the last debate between the two candidates before the election on November 3. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)