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

Is Sam Bankman-Fried Tied to a New Apparent Crypto Scam Called BALD?

On-chain data shows bald's deployer contract has interacted with Alameda-linked wallets and was an active DeFi participant in the early days.

Despite claims by right-wing political figures, Sam Bankman-Fried was definitely not a free man when he (right) exited a Manhattan courtroom on July 26, 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

LeetSwap Halts Trading After $630K Drained From Liquidity Pairs

Coinbase’s Layer 2 blockchain has another problem on its hands.

Circling the drain downwards spiral (Shutterstock)

Finance

FTX Plans to Restart Crypto Exchange for International Customers

Proposed re-organization plan provides a pathway for a specific class of debtors to pool assets to create a new, offshore exchange.

New FTX CEO John J. Ray III (C-Span)

Markets

First Mover Asia: BTC, ETH Stable While COMP and AAVE in the Red

Curve Founder Michael Egorov's $168M in holdings is under stress, imperiling DeFi as a whole. PLUS: The Litecoin Foundation and crypto cold-storage card manufacturer Ballet HAVE teased a sale of 500 collectable cards – fashioned from 50 grams of fine silver.

Bitcoin weekly chart. (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

HSBC-Owned Hang Seng Bank Limits Crypto Companies to ‘Simple’ Accounts: Report

The report comes as Hong Kong’s Monetary Authority (HKMA) reminds banks that there is no ban on offering crypto companies accounts.

Hong Kong (Unsplash)

Markets

Upbit Halts CRV Withdrawal and Deposit After Curve Finance Exploit

Other exchanges say they are monitoring the situation closely but have not taken any action.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Teeters Around $29.2K as Crypto Markets Slide Amid Curve Exploit, SEC Clampdown on Hex

BTC hovered comfortably over $29,300 for much of the weekend but dropped in the hours after Curve Finance tweeted that it had suffered a breach.

Bitcoin daily chart. (CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Climbs Back to $29.4K; Crypto's Correlation With Tech May Return

An exploit of stablecoin exchange Curve Sunday could jeopardize more than $100 million in cryptocurrency. PLUS: What's behind Russia's mining boom?

Bitcoin weekly chart. (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

Crypto Mining Retailer Phoenix Looks at IPO in UAE: Bloomberg

The UAE-based firm is developing one of the region’s largest mining facilities.

The Abu Dhabi skyline (Nick Fewings/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Steady Above $29K, Bond Yields Rise as BOJ Makes Yield Curve Control More Flexible

BOJ announced a proper yield curve control tweak with semantics that camouflaged the hawkish move.

Bank of Japan's tweak to its bond buying program had little effect on bitcoin. (Getty Images)