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

ANALYSIS: AI Tokens Are the Real Losers of the DeepSeek Revolution

Artificial Intelligence tokens have a market cap in the billions, and pools of capital startups would be jealous of. But they got beat by a lean, efficient team.

(Paola Ocaranza/Unsplash)

Policy

Prediction Markets Don't Have a Gambling Problem, Says Crypto Attorney

While regulators around the world ban Polymarket for being a gambling platform, attorney Aaron Brogan has a good argument for why it's not.

(Sung Shin/Unsplash)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

OKX's Hong Fang: 2025 Will Be a Year of Self-Custody

The increasing popularity of decentralized exchanges and an awareness of centralization risk is raising demand for self-custody, says OKX's President.

OKX President Hong Fang

Markets

Donald Trump's Official Token Surges 25%, Some Observers See It as Bet on His Presidency

Token prices zoomed 25% in the past 24 hours, beating gains in bitcoin and other majors to reverse losses from earlier in the week.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Trump-Affiliated World Liberty Financial Makes Another TRX Buy

The most recent purchase brings WLFI's TRX holdings to $7.5 million.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Pardoned by President Trump

The Silk Road founder in 2015 had been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Ross Ulbricht set to be freed from prison (CoinDesk Archives)

Policy

Polymarket Bettors Certain Ross Ulbricht Pardon Is on Trump’s Agenda

Crypto was absent from the first batch of President Trump's executive orders and pardons, but the market is confident it will come soon.

Ross Ulbricht set to be freed from prison (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Crypto Options Stay Bearish on Ether-Bitcoin Ratio as Trump Fails to Mention BTC in Inaugural Speech

Options continue to show a bias for BTC relative to ETH despite Trump bypassing any mention of strategic bitcoin reserve in his inaugural speech on Monday.

Donald Trump (BarBus/Pixabay)

Markets

Balaji Blasts Memecoins, Calling Them 'Zero-Sum Lottery’ as TRUMP Token Sends Market In Frenzy

The former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said in a thread on X that memecoins aren’t wealth creation.

Balaji Srinivasan image via CoinDesk archives

Markets

Coinbase, Binance Plan to List Donald Trump's Official TRUMP Token After Its Phenomenal Debut

The official memecoin of the 47th United States president will be listed on most major crypto exchanges, even though the fan token faced trouble getting listed.

Donald Trump (BarBus/Pixabay)