Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds is editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.

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Finance

Polymarket, Prediction Betting Markets Vindicated by Trump's Strong Showing

Tuesday night's election returns were a shocker if you only watched CNN. But not if you'd looked at the betting all along.

Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan at CoinDesk's Consensus 2024.

Finance

Aurum Launches $1B Tokenized Fund for Data Center Investments on XRP Ledger With Zoniqx

The vehicle will focus on data center investments across the U.S, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, and Europe, claiming to be the "world’s first combined equity and debt tokenized fund."

(Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

Opinion

Editorial: We Applaud Trump’s Crypto Efforts Though His Record, Rhetoric Raise Red Flags

The former president deserves credit for making crypto a campaign issue. We wish his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, would say more about it.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Faces Key Test at $64K as Altcoins Lead Crypto Rally; Options Traders Bet on $70K BTC Next Month

The broad-based CoinDesk 20 Index outperformed BTC and ETH, with all of its constituents advancing through the day and SOL, AVAX and APT gaining 10%-15%.

Bitcoin price on 09 19 (CoinDesk)

Opinion

What's Next in SEC v. Ripple?

While the SEC case against Ripple was decided solidly in Ripple’s favor, the takeaways for the rest of the industry are limited.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock)

Policy

Bitcoin and Crypto Go Unmentioned During Trump-Musk X Space

Bettors at one point gave an over 60 percent chance of Trump mentioning digital assets during the interview

Donald J. Trump at a rally (Gerd Altmann, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

TradFi Giant State Street Mulls Creating Stablecoin, Tokenized Deposits: Bloomberg

Traditional financial heavyweights are getting increasingly involved in tokenization efforts, putting financial assets on blockchain rails for operational benefits.

State Street building in London (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

MicroStrategy Is Pioneering Bitcoin Capital Markets, Bernstein Says

Michael Saylor’s firm is the only corporation that has developed institutional demand for bitcoin linked convertibles, the report said.

MicroStrategy attempted to make its case as the superior alternative in a fourth quarter earnings presentation to shareholders. (Source: MicroStrategy)

Markets

PoliFi Tokens Down Double Digits on Claims DJT Token Has Trump's Backing

If reports about DJT are true, this would be the first time a presidential candidate from a major party created a cryptocurrency. That appears to be a big "if."

Trump and son in 2017 (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)