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

Binance's Custody Arm Ceffu Will Apply for Singapore License: Report

Binance rebranded its custody arm to Ceffu earlier this month.

Merlion Park in Singapore (Pixabay)

Finance

Voyager Digital's Reward Program Lost $58M in 2022: Court Filing

Rewards program included high-yield interest accounts, a refer-a-friend scheme and a mechanism to share in the spread of trades should they execute at a lower asking price.

Right after Voyager CEO Stephen Ehrlich received a letter this week from U.S. regulators accusing his company of misleading customers, the FDIC issued a broader warning to banks to not let it happen again. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Finance

Institutions in Asia Aren’t Interested in Liquid Staking: Hex Trust

Liquid staking has become the second biggest DeFi vertical, but Asia-based institutions are not impressed.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: NFTs Have a ‘Digital First Sale’ Problem

ALSO: Short interest is rising on China tokens while bitcoin treads water just above $23,000.

(Pixabay modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Non-Custodial Liquid Staking Platform Ether.Fi Closes $5.3M Fundraise

The round was co-led by North Island Ventures, Chapter One and Node Capital and included participation from BitMex founder Arthur Hayes.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Core Developer Luke Dashjr Calls Out Unauthorized Ordinal NFT With His Name

The auction for the ordinal was being hosted at Scarce.City, a new ordinal marketplace.

Ordinals is exploding on Bitcoin (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Stays Rooted Near $23.5K

ALSO: Sam Reynolds writes about the complicated relationship between layer 1 blockchain Coinflux’s CFX token and China and asks if it has triple-digit growth potential.

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Finance

French Police Arrest Duo Involved in Platypus Crypto Exploit

Flash loan exploit drained protocol of over $9 million in assets and knocked Platypus USD (USP) off its peg.

Paris, France (allewollenalex/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Solana in the Green After Weekend Deep Freeze

ALSO: CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey considers why the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has overreached in its recent actions against crypto entities, and that the crypto industry must improve its lobbying efforts.

Solana (Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

US Drug Enforcement Agency Seized $1.8M From Binance in 2022

Binance and the Drug Enforcement Agency disrupted a pipeline that moved cash generated from selling narcotics in Michigan to Mexico via stablecoins.

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