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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Markets

Tokenized assets exceed $25 billion after nearly quadrupling in a year

Treasurys, private credit, and commodities are driving growth, but most tokenized assets remain isolated from DeFi markets.

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Policy

Binance tells Senate probe no accounts sent crypto directly to Iran

Crypto exchange pushed back on $1.7 billion Iran-linked flow allegations and called media reports behind the probe “defamatory.”

Richard Teng, CEO, Binance. (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Markets

Vancouver mayor's bitcoin investment proposal blocked by city, provincial law

Officials say the Vancouver Charter limits city reserves to government debt, bank instruments and other traditional assets.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Markets

Almost nobody is talking about altseason anymore. That may be bullish

Social media mentions of "altseason" have dropped to their lowest level in two years, according to Santiment data, a contrarian signal that has preceded previous rallies in speculative crypto assets.

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin drops under $71,000, ETH, DOGE slide as war-week rally runs into resistance

BTC surged nearly 12% from Saturday's lows before stalling, with Asia's benchmark equities index headed for its worst week since March 2020.

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Markets

Bitcoin trading firm suggests a bullish trade with a key financing twist

The strategy aims to build upside exposure in March and April while minimizing upfront cost.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin tops $72,000 as ETFs pull $155 million, extending two week inflow streak

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs added another $155 Million on Wednesday, continuing a two week run of institutional inflows even as Glassnode warns underlying demand remains fragile.

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Markets

Sky token jumps 10% after governance vote causes bullish tilt in market dynamics

The protocol has repurchased about 1.83 Billion SKY tokens with USDS while a March 2 governance proposal reduced staking emissions and expanded credit infrastructure around its USDS stablecoin.

Sky/MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen on CoinDesk TV

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Over a billion flows into bitcoin ETFs, yet the price isn’t rising — an analyst explains why

Bitfinex analyst argue that ETF inflows can be misread as immediate spot demand.

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Markets

Bitcoin holds, ether, solana slide as Mideast woes drag Asian equities to multi-year lows

The largest cryptocurrency briefly reclaimed the top of its range on Tuesday before sellers pushed it back to $67,000, while South Korean stocks posted their worst two-day drop since 2008.

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