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

FTX Token Plummets on Withdrawal Concerns as Contagion Hits Broader Crypto Markets

The FTT price has declined nearly 14% over the past 24 hours, with Solana's SOL and Serum's SRM taking losses along with bigger cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether.

(CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: A Good Week for Exchange Tokens, Except FTT; Solana Continues Falling

During the past week, a number of exchange tokens have outperformed bitcoin, including OKX and CRO. FTT is not among them.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO de FTX. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

FTT-Alameda Drama Weighs on Market as Asia Begins Its Week

FTT, SOL, and BNB all begin the week in the red as the market digests Alameda’s questionable financial position.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Talks Consumer Protection and Crypto Titans Clash

Consumer protection and regulation are key ingredients to transforming digital assets into an asset class worth trillions. The FTX exchange's Sam Bankman-Fried weighs in. Meanwhile, FTX's FTT token takes a dive after rival Binance announces plans to dump its remaining holdings.

(Shutterstock)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Alameda Research, FTX Are Bound to Each Other; Bitcoin Trades Sideways, Dogecoin Plunges Late as Twitter Halts Work on Crypto Wallet

A recent Alameda document showed the biggest asset on the organization's balance sheet was FTX’s FTT token.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Finance

Did Sponsoring Stadiums Bring New Crypto Traders, or Tourists?

By some metrics, Crypto.com and FTX’s stadium sponsorship campaigns were a remarkable success. Whether they succeeded in onboarding a new generation of crypto traders remains to be seen.

The exterior of the Crypto.com Arena (Getty Images)

Markets

Dapper Labs Cuts 22% of Staff as NFT Market Craters

Sales volume for Dapper Labs' NBA Top Shot has declined to $2.6 million from $224 million in February 2021.

NBA Top Shot. (Dapper Labs)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Ripple's APAC Policy Chief Sees Hopeful Shift in Hong Kong Crypto Statement; Dogecoin Soars Again

But Rahul Advani told CoinDesk the industry needs more details about the city’s plans.

Hong Kong skyline (bady abbas/unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Scams on Binance's BNB Chain Highlight Weaknesses in Quality Control; Bitcoin Sags

A Solidus Labs report showed that Binance’s BNB Chain leads in volume of scams.

(Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crowdfunding Platform StartEngine to Acquire Rival SeedInvest From Circle

StartEngine CEO Howard Marks says security token efforts will continue on the combined platform, and terms of the deal were undisclosed.

StartEngine CEO Howard Marks delivering a keynote at the StartEngine Summit conference (StartEngine)