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.

Sam Reynolds

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Finance

Chainalysis: Hong Kong and China’s OTC Markets Remain Active Despite Crypto Winter

East Asia represents almost 8.8% of all transactions globally, a report from the research firm says.

Hong Kong, China Cityscape (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Slips Below $27K, but What Might Government Shutdown Mean for Prices?

The last time BTC posted a positive return during September was in 2016.

Bitcoin price in September (CoinDesk)

Markets

SEC Begins Consideration of Franklin, Hashdex Crypto ETFs, Delays Decision on VanEck, ARK Ether ETFs

SEC recently extended deadlines for ARK, GlobalX spot bitcoin ETFs due to a looming government shutdown.

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall

Markets

Bitcoin Slides Back Towards $26K as Surging Interest Rates Trigger Macro Jitters

The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rose another nine basis points Wednesday to a new 16-year high of 4.63%.

Bitcoin faces macro hurdles. (Josh Boak/Unsplash)

Markets

Thailand’s SCBX and Korean Web3 Firm Hashed Ink R&D Partnership

The partnership comes weeks after KBank, a rival of SCBX, announced a $100 million web3 fund.

SCBX and Hashed Signing Agreement (Provided)

Policy

Hong Kong to Disclose All Crypto License Applicants After JPEX Probe

Securities and Futures Commission says decision was made in light of public demand

Hong Kong (Ruslan Bardash / Unsplash)

Tech

Mixin Network Losses Nearly $200M in Hack

Mixin Network is a protocol designed to address blockchain scalability issues – at the expense of having a centralized database.

Computer Hacking Hackers (Shutterstock)

Markets

Counterfeit Aptos Token Deposited on Upbit Leads to APT Withdrawals Being Temporarily Suspended

Exchange has resumed operations, and some say a more significant market incident was narrowly avoided.

(Daniel Bernard/ Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Balancer Says Web Front End Is ‘Under Attack’

On-chain data appears to show the attacker has stolen over $200,000 from users.

MetaMask Chrome plugin's warning message

Web3

The Salvation of Domain Ownership May Lie in Tokenization, and One Firm Is Pressing Hard to Make This a Reality

URLs are the pathway to the internet. While top domains might fetch in the hundreds of millions, they are still auctioned off like it’s the 20th century. Here’s how Web3 can change that.

(John Schnobrich/Unsplash)