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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StarkWare cuts jobs in reorganization as Starknet revenue plunges 99% from peak

Days after unveiling a quantum-safe bitcoin method, a StarkWare researcher was tapped to lead a new applications unit as Layer-2 revenue dries up.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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Alameda moves $16 million in Solana's SOL token for possible creditor distribution

Alameda unstakes $16 million worth of Solana's SOL token, according to Arkham.

Caroline Ellison, the government's star witness in their case against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, leaving court on Tuesday, Oct. 11 following her first day of testimony. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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WLFI threatens legal action against Justin Sun after he accuses Trump-linked project of deceptive DeFi deals

Trump-backed crypto project says it has ‘contracts’ and ‘evidence’ after Sun accused it of exploiting users.

Justin Sun of TRON and Zak Folkman of World Liberty Financial speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Strategy signals another bitcoin buy as company needs just 2% annual BTC growth to cover dividends

The company bought nearly three times more bitcoin than miners produced in March and is signaling it isn't done, even as its holdings remain billions underwater.

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Tron’s Justin Sun slams Trump-backed WLFI for treating users as ‘personal ATM’ after $75 Million DeFi loan

Once WLFI's largest outside backer, Sun is going public days after the Trump-family venture borrowed $75 million against its own token on a DeFi protocol advised by one of its own insiders.

World Liberty Financial's Zak Folkman (Right) at Consensus Hong Kong on Feb. 19. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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HSBC and Standard Chartered-led group land Hong Kong’s first stablecoin licenses

The approvals by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's central bank, mark the first batch under the Stablecoins Ordinance, which took effect in August 2025.

Hong Kong (Ryan Mac/Unsplash)

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Quantum-safe bitcoin now possible without a soft fork, but costs $200 a pop, new research shows

A new scheme from a StarkWare researcher works under existing consensus rules, offering an emergency fallback while BIP-360 awaits activation.

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OKX and HashKey invest in new Vietnam exchange ahead of crypto licensing push

The partnership will help the exchange meet Vietnam's $380 million capital requirement to enter a government pilot program aimed at licensing local platforms and curbing offshore trading.

Flag in Hanoi, Vietnam ( Ajay Karpur/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Trump's World Liberty Financial uses 5 billion WLFI to borrow $75 million from a platform its adviser co-founded

Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.

World Liberty Financial leadership team. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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CFTC presses case that sports betting is finance, seeks to block Arizona enforcement

Federal lawsuit argues event contracts are swaps under U.S. law, not state-level gaming law, deepening a split with states that view the products as illegal gambling

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