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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Finance

NFT Research Tool NFT Inspect Is Shutting Down

The move comes as sales and trading volumes of non-fungible tokens plummet.

(Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Why Is Tron Founder Justin Sun Keeping Some of His Coins in Valkyrie Digital Assets?

ALSO: Bitcoin spent a low-key 14th birthday, trading almost precisely in the same narrow range it's held since mid-December; other cryptos traded sideways, although SOL rose 22% to continue its nearly week-long surge.

Cartel del fundador de Tron, Justin Sun. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis-DCG Loan Leads to Class-Action Arbitration Case From Gemini Clients

Claimants allege in a filing that Genesis breached its Master Agreement when it became insolvent in the summer of 2022, while hiding its insolvency from lenders like Gemini.

(Genesis Trading, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Celebrates the New Year With Old Pricing, Holds Steady at $16.7K

ALSO: CoinDesk's Sam Reynolds explains why crypto exchange token prices continue to respond to news events and not what the SEC and other regulators might do.

(Moritz Knöringer/CoinDesk)

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Policy

Reguladores de Bahamas retienen US$3500M en activos de clientes de FTX

Las preocupaciones sobre la seguridad de los activos bajo custodia del exchange impulsaron a los reguladores de las Bahamas a intervenir, informó un comunicado.

Extradición a Estados Unidos del fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, desde las Bahamas. (Real Fuerza de Policía de Bahamas)

Finance

Regulators in the Bahamas Are Holding $3.5 Billion in FTX Customer Assets

Concerns over the security of assets in FTX custody prompted the authorities to take control of them.

Extradición a Estados Unidos del fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, desde las Bahamas. (Real Fuerza de Policía de Bahamas)

Markets

Cathie Wood Buys More Coinbase Shares on the Cheap

The investor's ARK's Fintech Innovation ETF purchased 158,000 shares that have lost almost 90% this year.

Cathie Wood appearing at CoinDesk's Consensus 2021 conference (CoinDesk)

Web3

The Final Word on Decentraland’s Numbers

Counting users in the metaverse is tough. CoinDesk scoured and analyzed multiple data sources to distill an answer.

Un avatar en Decentraland. (Decentraland)

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Policy

Exejecutivos de FTX y Alameda se declaran culpables de fraude y llegan a un acuerdo con la SEC y CFTC

Sam Bankman-Fried, de FTX, fue acusado y detenido la semana pasada.

El fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, vuelve a comparecer ante el tribunal en las Bahamas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Finance

Caroline Ellison Plea Agreement: $250,000 Bail, Surrender of Travel Documents, Forfeiture of Assets

The plea agreement would waive Ellison of any charges except criminal tax violations, provided she fully cooperates with U.S. Attorney's office.

Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research (Twitter/@carolinecapital)