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

Hong Kong’s OneDegree to Offer Insurance for Digital Assets With Munich Re

Clients will be able to get reinsurance for crypto.

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Markets

Luna Foundation Guard Holds Almost 40,000 BTC After Weekend Purchase

Luna Foundation Guard bought $173 million worth of bitcoin over the weekend, but bitcoin is down 2%.

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First Mover Asia: What’s in HSBC’s Metaverse Fund for Hong Kong, Singapore Private Banking Clients?; Bitcoin Declines

The financial services giant has been short on specifics, and the mystery underscores the difficulties in defining what belongs in such products; ether also falls.

Hong Kong skyline (Gary Yeowell/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Set to Close Week Underperforming Major Japan, China Stocks

Investors in the region were more risk-averse this week amid fresh evidence of the U.S. central bank's commitment to hawkish monetary policy and an unsettled macroeconomic environment; cryptos were mixed.

Hong Kong's Exchange Square, home of the Hong Kong Exchange (See-ming Lee/Flickr)

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First Mover Americas: Luna Foundation Guard Is Back Buying Bitcoin, Fed Minutes on Deck

The latest moves in crypto markets in context for April 6, 2022.

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Metaverse Majors Struggle as User Base Falls Short of Market Expectations

Decentraland, Axie Infinity and The Sandbox have larger valuations and fewer active users than non-blockchain games.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Singapore Wants More Control Over Crypto Companies That Call It Home but Aren’t There; Major Cryptos Drop

Many crypto companies, especially those with roots in Asia, choose to register their companies in Singapore, but the city-state has grown uncomfortable with the scale of this arrangement; bitcoin and ether fall.

Singapore skyline (Unsplash)

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First Mover Asia: Crypto Offering New Opportunities for Inflation-Worried Indonesian Investors; Bitcoin Is Flat

A report by the crypto exchange Gemini found that about two in five Indonesians own cryptocurrencies; ether also held its ground.

Jakarta, Indonesia

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First Mover Asia: DBS Bank's Ditching Retail Exchange Delivers a Small Blow to OSL, Less so to Singapore's Crypto Industry; Bitcoin Rises Late Sunday

Even after the news broke, the stock of OSL's parent, BC Technology Group, continued its week-long winning streak on the Hong Kong markets, rising 5%; bitcoin and ether are up.

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Bitcoin Ends Q1 Closely Following S&P 500

Data from TradingView shows a correlation between bitcoin and the S&P 500 as bitcoin drops below $45,000.

Bitcoin vs. S&P 500 TradingView)