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

Most Crypto Scams on BNB Chain, Solidus Labs Says

Crypto risk monitoring platform says it has flagged nearly 200,000 crypto rug pulls and decentralized finance scams since August 2020.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and Emily Parker, CoinDesk executive director (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: China’s Bitcoin-Funded Intelligence Operation in US Likely About Chips; Bitcoin Soars Past $20K

The U.S. Department of Justice is alleging that two Chinese intelligence officers tried to bribe an undercover FBI agent with bitcoin for information about the U.S. government’s investigations into technology giant Huawei.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Celsius Once Solicited Donations for Ukraine. Here’s What Happened Next

After Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year, several digital-asset platforms rushed to publicize the address of Ukrainian government wallets for crypto donations. Celsius took a different path, setting up its own wallets to accept donations. But how much was donated?

Ukranian Flag (Getty Images)

Finance

Cathie Wood’s ARK Fintech Innovation ETF Buys More Coinbase

Coinbase is now the third-largest holding for ARKF, even as ARK as a whole trims its position in the crypto exchange.

Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Finance

Ripple’s Director of Engineering Leaves Firm as XRP Turns 10

Nik Bougalis says he’s not joining another blockchain or Web3 company.

Nik Bougalis (Ripple YouTube)

Markets

Crypto Staking Platform Freeway Halts Withdrawals, Citing Market Volatility

The small-cap platform that promised users up to 43% in annual awards puts the brakes on withdrawals and scrubs its team from the site.

Car crash narrow road wedged (Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko Thinks His Phone Is the Tool for a Mobile Web3 Experience

The Solana protocol faces a massive challenge in convincing people to use its phone to do things they can do with existing phones.

(Steve Jurvetson/Creative Commons)

Finance

Developers Excluded From Broker Label in New DCCPA Bill Draft

Stakeholders say that this latest draft of the bill tempers language that would be detrimental to DeFi.

(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)

Finance

Aptos Token Plunges in Trading Debut

FTX, Coinbase and Binance were among the first exchanges to list the buzzy new layer 1 token.

An Aptos-branded hat. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)