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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Finance

Crypto Exchange OKX Enters Turkey as Part of Global Expansion Plan

OKX President Hong Fang says there is a high demand for crypto in the country.

Turkey flag. (Michael Jerrard/Unsplash)

Policy

HTX Withdraws Hong Kong Crypto Exchange Application

Hong Kong's securities regulators says HBGL Hong Kong Limited withdrew its application for a license on February 23.

Justin Sun in 2019 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Tops Bitcoin as the Largest Crypto Asset for Institutions: Bybit Research

Ether is now the largest single asset held by institutions, with Bybit speculating that this may be because of a potential upward swing from the Dencun upgrade

Bull and Bear (nosheep/Pixabay)

Tech

Satoshi Anticipated Bitcoin Energy Debate in Email Thread With Early Collaborators

The Bitcoin creator saw an irony in the debate between economic liberty and conservation in an email thread with an early collaborator Martii 'Sirius' Malmi.

"Skull Of Satoshi" (VonWong Productions)

Markets

S&P Global Just Made Ethereum's Centralization Risk a TradFi Concern

Institutional interest in digital assets means that crypto terms such as 'Nakamoto Coefficient' are now mainstream issues.

Ethereum (Unsplash)

Finance

AI-Linked Crypto Tokens Surge After Nvidia Sees 'Tipping Point'

AI tokens outperform the CoinDesk 20 index, as crypto traders bet on solid Nvidia earnings and outlook.

(Shutterstock)

Tech

Former Fidelity International Digital Assets Executive Joins Advisory Board of Ethereum L2 Layer N

Luc Froehlich will help guide Layer N's Real World Asset (RWA), TradFi, and tokenization strategies.

Luc Froehlich (Fidelity International)

Markets

Nvidia's Hotly Anticipated Earnings May 'Trigger' Bitcoin and Crypto Correction, Analyst Says

'The most important stock on Earth' could disappoint on a weak PC market and AI saturation, with Wall Street wanting more from the GPU giant, pulling down crypto and equities, QCP Capital said.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Trading Spikes to Busiest Session Since January Debut

Bloomberg exchange-traded funds analyst Eric Balchunas noted a particular uptick in volume for HODL and BTCW

(Sophie Backes/Unsplash)

Markets

Avalanche's AVAX Underperforms Ahead of $365M Token Unlock

In crypto, large unlocking events usually lead to price declines as the increase in the token's supply outpaces investor demand, a previous study shows.

AVAX price on Feb. 20 (CoinDesk)