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.

Sam Reynolds

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First Mover Asia: Taiwan's Surprising Interest Rate Hike; Altcoins Outdo Bitcoin

A survey of economists had expected the country, with its soaring economy, to leave the rate unchanged; avalanche and solana, among others were well into the green.

Taipei, capital of Taiwan

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Bitcoin-Focused VC Stillmark Hires Former Google X Engineer Vikash Singh

Singh joins the fund as principal investor as the firm looks to deploy capital to Bitcoin-related companies.

Vikash Singh (Stillmark)

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Hang Seng, China Stocks Soar as Beijing Pledges Support Amid Equity Rout

Crypto remains stable, though liquidity thin, as markets in Hong Kong climb out from the worst slump since the 2008 recession.

Hong Kong skyline (Ruslan Bardash/Unsplash)

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SCMP Spinning Off NFT Business Into New Firm ‘Artifact Labs’

The newspaper has found a brisk business in selling NFTs of its historical front pages, clearing $127,000 in its last auction.

(Howard Pulling/Flickr)

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Bitcoin Tops $41K in Crawl Back From $37K Weekend Lows

The push past $41,000 comes as major Asian equity markets open in the green at the start of Wednesday's trading session and the market awaits the Federal Reserve decision.

(Getty images)

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First Mover Asia: China Equities Woes, Tensions With US Have Barely Touched Bitcoin; Cryptos Climb

Hong Kong's Hang Seng market has suffered through some of its worst days in more than a decade but that has not seemed to affect bitcoin's price much; cryptos rose slightly amid wait for Fed interest rate decision.

Hong Kong's Exchange Square, home of the Hong Kong Exchange (See-ming Lee/Flickr)

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Stellar Development Foundation Launches $30M Investment Fund

The fund will match investments in platforms that use the Stellar blockchain.

(Shutterstock)

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Bitcoin Unaffected by Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Meltdown

Analysts says the market crash in Hong Kong is being driven by regulatory not monetary policies, which is why the contagion has not spread to crypto.

Hong Kong's Exchange Square, home of the Hong Kong Exchange (See-ming Lee/Flickr)

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First Mover Asia: A Taipei Executive Believes GameFi Can Fix Gaming’s Creative Drought; Bitcoin, Ether Are Flat in Light Trading

See Wan Toong, the CTO of Red Door Digital, a Taipei-based studio building out Web 3 games, believes games can be creative and lucrative; major cryptos were mixed with prices of some rising slightly and others falling.

View of the Taipei Skyline with Taipei 101 at night

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First Mover Asia: South Korea Election Made Crypto a Big Issue, but There's No Guarantee of a Follow-Through; Cryptos Suffer Weekend Decline

Both candidates made crypto an important issue to attract younger voters, but it's not yet clear if the winner, Yoon Suk-yeol, will introduce legislation fulfilling his promises; bitcoin and ether were both in the red.

South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-Yeol celebrates his victory (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)