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

Latest from Sam Reynolds


Web3

Yuga Labs CEO: 'The Metaverse Is Not New'

The company behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club has a new CEO from Web2, and he knows that you can’t build Web3 with a Web2 mindset.

Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre, left, and Rosie Perper, CoinDesk's Web3 deputy managing editor (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk Indices, Crypto Asset Manager CoinFund Launch an Ethereum Staking Benchmark Rate

The benchmark is derived from daily transaction fees and staking rewards generated by Ethereum, bringing pricing tools that institutional investors expect into digital assets.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Tokenization of Real-World Assets 'Changes How Value Is Transferred'

Institutions and fund managers have wanted to tokenize assets for some time, but it's been a manner of infrastructure catching up.

Panelists discuss tokenization on stage (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Crypto Flat as Markets Await Tech Earnings

ALSO: Although Do Kwon is in a lot of trouble, his lawyers have raised a legitimate issue about crypto regulation in the U.S, and the SEC’s quest for unlimited jurisdiction over the asset class.

(Sebastian Huxley/Unsplash)

Web3

Judge Rules Bored Ape Yacht Club Ripoff NFTs Violated Yuga Trademarks

Use of BAYC intellectual property by Ripps’ RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled.

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT image (Yuga Labs, modified by CoinDesk))

Markets

First Mover Asia: We’re Still Missing Good Web3 Games; Bitcoin Swoons Below $29K

The TradGaming world has tentpole franchises that have drawn large audiences, but Web3 games have yet to connect meaningfully with gaming enthusiasts.

The 10 spot bitcoin ETFs on Monday experienced their first net inflows in a week (Jim Wilson/Unsplash)

Consensus Magazine

BTQ Prepares Today to Defend Against Tomorrow’s Quantum-Computing Threat

Blockchains face existential peril from super-fast computers that can break the encryption protocols on which crypto depends. Quantum computers aren’t here yet, but if developers wait to devise defenses the fight will be over before it’s begun. That’s why BTQ is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Arkham Intelligence Traces Transactions on the Blockchain

The blockchain analytics firm has no issue doxxing wallets, because the information is already out there, their tools just make it possible to see. That’s what makes Arkham Intelligence one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

Arkham was listed on CoinDesk's Project To Watch 2023

Web3

Donald Trump Earned Between $500,001-$1M on NFT Sales: Filings

Trump’s earnings from NFTs come via a licensing agreement CIC Digital LLC has with NFT INC LLC, and not from individual sales of the digital assets.

Donald Trump Trading Card NFTs (OpenSea)

Tech

Yearn's Staked Ether Token yETH Gets Mixed Results on Govenance Poll

The non-binding poll seeks to do a temperature check of sentiment toward launching yETH.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)