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

First Mover Asia: Lido DAO Governance Token Down, Staked Ether Stable as Withdrawal Proposal Comes Into Focus; Bitcoin Rises as Fed Rate Decision Nears

While the DAO has yet to formally see the Lido proposal to allow withdrawals from stETH, Galaxy Digital has already been critical. The Lido governance token has fallen about 15% from its high last week week.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Centralized Exchange Tokens Post Solid Gains in January Despite SEC Interest; Bitcoin, Ether in the Red.

The tokens of Binance, Crypto.com and KuCoin are all comfortably in the green over the past month.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Amazon’s Web3 Foray Will Be a Compliance Nightmare; Bitcoin Tops $23.9K

The retail giant’s initiative, especially in NFTs, may force some regulatory clarity for digital assets. Cryptos surge in Sunday trading.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Cryptos Shrug Off Latest US Productivity, Jobs Data; Bitcoin Hovers at $22.9K

ALSO: Sam Reynolds considers litecoin's strong performance over the past year compared to bitcoin and ether. The first altcoin has been operating largely out of the spotlight.

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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Surges Past $23K Before Retreating

ALSO: Sam Reynolds writes that Microsoft cutting its mixed reality team underlines large tech firms's struggles to succeed in the augmented and virtual reality space. Will Apple do better?

Staking crypto (Jay Radhakrishnan/Getty Images)

Finance

Genesis Owes Over $3.5B to Top 50 Creditors

Genesis has over 100,000 creditors among the three of its companies that declared bankruptcy.

Genesis has unloaded its entire stake in GBTC (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

SSV DAO Starts $50M Fund to Push Ethereum's Decentralization Plan

The ecosystem fund follows SSV's $10 million grant pool announcement last year to help teams develop staking projects on Ethereum.

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Markets

OKX Publishes Proof-of-Reserves Report Showing $7.5B in ‘Clean Assets’

The report shows reserves are largely spread among bitcoin, ether and USDT.

OKX's proof-of-reserves report shows the exchange has $7.5 billion worth of "clean assets." (Shutterstock)

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First Mover Asia: FTX’s Illiquid Holdings Filled With Tokens That Sit in Venture Funds in Which It Invested; Bitcoin Falls Below $21K

A good portion of FTX's illiquid tokens can be found on the balance sheet of funds, including Sino Global and Multicoin Capital. FTX invested in these funds, and their names often appear alongside FTX as co-investors in projects.

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Markets

SHIB y DOGE suben 20% y 5% respectivamente mientras traders siguen apostando por las memecoins

Datos de Nansen mostraron un intenso trading de los tokens SHIB en exchanges descentralizados.

Perro shiba inu. (Getty Images)