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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Policy

Dubai’s VARA Warns of Firms Falsely Claiming to Be Part of Real Estate Tokenization Pilot

VARA did not name any firms that were claiming unauthorized affiliation with the Real World Assets project.

Dubai (Wael Hneini/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin’s April Rally Driven by Institutions, While Retail Flees ETFs: Coinbase Exec

Patient pools of capital are behind BTC's recent rally.

John D'Agostino, Head of Strategy for Coinbase Institutional, speaks at Consensus Hong Kong earlier this year (CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Walks Away From Case Against HEX Founder Richard Heart, Attorney Says

Attorney says dismissal marks only crypto case tossed in full by a federal judge.

Richard Heart (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Strike CEO Mallers to Lead Bitcoin Investment Company Backed by Tether, Softbank, Brandon Lutnick

Crypto power players back $3B bitcoin SPAC as Trump-era policies spark new wave of institutional bets.

Howard Lutnick is a fan of bitcoin and Tether's USDT. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Technology

DAO Infrastructure Provider Tally Raises $8M to Scale On-Chain Governance

Tally is used by decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to manage the governance process.

(Joshua Woroniecki/Unsplash)

Markets

Bithumb to Split in 2 as Crypto Exchange Inches Toward South Korean IPO

A filing on the country's corporate registry shows the exchange registered a new entity in preparation for an IPO.

alt

Markets

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital Swaps $100M ETH for SOL, On-Chain Data Shows

SOL is up 8% in the last month while ether is down nearly 20%.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz: ‘Crypto Revolution Is Here’

Technology

Quantum Computing Group Offers 1 BTC to Whoever Breaks Bitcoin's Cryptographic Key

Quantum computers can rapidly break the cryptographic algorithms that secure blockchain networks.

(Dan Cristian Pădureț/Unsplash)

Technology

Kava Labs' Scott Stuart: Decentralized AI Delivers Real Value, Not NFT Style-Hype

Kava's co-founder explains why the DeFi-to-AI pivot helped it beat the market, while other AI tokens have flopped.

Kava Labs' Scott Stuart speaks earlier this year at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Flat as White House Pushes Mixed Messages on Technology Tariffs

BTC is trading above $84K, while major stock indices in China are up.

Hong Kong (Ryan Mac / Unsplash)