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

Cathie Wood's ARK Buys $9.2M Coinbase Shares First Time in Almost a Month

COIN is down 20% during the last week after a record-breaking rally in January, when it rose nearly 95%.

Cathie Wood, CEO de Ark Invest. (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Might Test $20K as It Looks for Support

ALSO: The SEC's move on Kraken's staking program last week shouldn't be seen as an indictment of staking as a whole.

Man staring out window at lightning storm (Grant Faint/Getty Images)

Finance

Ether Liquid Staking Platforms Will Benefit as SEC Actions Likely Fail to Deal DeFi's Knockout Blow

Lido and Rocket Pool didn’t immediately see a massive rush in of capital after Kraken announced it had settled with the SEC.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Network Activity Spikes to Two-Year High Thanks to NFTs, CryptoQuant Says

Transactions are coming from the popularity of the recently deployed Ordinals protocol, which allows for NFT-like tokens to be stored on-chain.

Los NFT lideran la actividad en la blockchain de Bitcoin. (Ordinals Protocol)

Markets

Flux Finance Launches Lending Token Collateralized by U.S. Treasurys

Flux Finance invests in Ondo’s Short-Term U.S. Government Bond Fund (OUSG) a tokenized version of a Blackrock Treasury Bond ETF.

The U.S. Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the role of cryptocurrencies in illicit finance, and its own response to this issue. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Lido DAO Governance Token Surges on Coinbase CEO's Comments About SEC Staking Ban

The SEC has declined to comment on rumors that it intends to classify tokens that allow staking as securities.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Flirts With $23.4K as Fed's Powell Repeats Comment About Waning Inflation; Market Weighs DCG-Genesis Deal With Creditors

ALSO: Stakeholders in the venture capital industry explain why embattled crypto trading firm Alameda Research will not be missed.

Ether registró una caída tras los datos de inflación en EE. UU. (Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Crypto Is Flat Before Fed Chair Speech; Japan's SBI Building a Metamask Competitor for Yen-Denominated NFT Trading

Crypto trading is largely denominated in USD, but the U.S. isn't the center of the digital assets world.

(Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Not Ready to Soar as Investors Await Fed Chair Speech, More Earnings

ALSO: As crypto prices rise, venture capital into the blockchain space is likely to rise. But will investment firms learn from their past overindulgences in the sector?

Jerome Powell (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Finance

Jack Dorsey-Based Social Network Nostr's Damus App Banned From China App Store

A notification from Apple says Damus “includes content that is illegal in China.”

Nostr's Damus, on Apple's App Store (Apple)