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

Strategy sold bitcoin in late May, and told the market in June. Here's how Polymarket bettors are fighting over when it counts.

A $79 million market hinges not on whether Michael Saylor's firm sold bitcoin, but on whether a sale disclosed June 1 can count toward a deadline that passed May 31.

(Rob Sarmiento

Finance

Cardano Summit 2026 canceled after community votes against Foundation funding proposal

The Cardano Foundation's flagship conference was scrapped after a funding proposal failed to secure the two-thirds support required under the blockchain's new governance system.

Charles Hoskinson during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Three Sui mainnet halts in 48 hours traced to an upgrade bug by developers

The Sui Foundation's post-mortem published Sunday traces all three outages to interactions between a new address-balance feature shipped in the v1.72 release and the network's existing gas and consensus logic.

Blocky structures linked by rays of light.

Markets

Aave overhauls listing standards after $230 million rsETH exploit exposed bridge risks

An official postmortem traced the exploit to a LayerZero bridge verification failure and outlined a sweeping overhaul of Aave's asset-listing standards as DeFi risks shift beyond smart contract bugs.

A computer screen with code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

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Tech

Bitcoin’s biggest quantum risk may not be wallet keys. An early investor fears something bigger

Andrew Gault, the venture capitalist who funded the quantum hardware labs now threatening bitcoin, says the industry is looking in the wrong place. Google's own security team moved in the same direction in March.

Bitcoin quantum resistant. (Chris Ried/Unsplash)

Markets

OKX Ventures buys $53 million stake in Korea's Coinone exchange

The crypto exchange's investment arm and Korea Investment & Securities will each invest 80 billion won ($53 million) as Coinone pushes into stablecoins and tokenized securities.

South Korea (Photo by Daniel Bernard on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin's record holder supply hides a buyer drought, CryptoQuant says

A record high in long-term holder supply typically signals conviction. CryptoQuant says it reflects a shortage of new buyers, a view echoed by weakening ETF demand and bearish prediction market odds.

Bitcoin hero image

Policy

White House reviews CFTC prediction-market rule as Trump backs federal control

The proposal could shape how Kalshi, Polymarket, and other event-contract platforms operate as states challenge the CFTC’s authority.

White House at night (Credit: Tabrez Syed on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

BlackRock's bitcoin ETF sheds $528 million, the second-largest daily outflow on record

IBIT recorded its second-biggest single-day net outflow since launch on Wednesday, missing a January record by less than half a million dollars, as the Iran-driven sell-off pulled institutional money out of bitcoin.

ETFs (Markus Winkler/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto’s biggest exchanges back push for token disclosure standards as industry courts institutional capital

More than 40 crypto firms, including rival exchanges Coinbase and Kraken, are backing a Blockworks-led framework aimed at bringing stock market-style disclosures to token markets.

(Scott Gra