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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Trump Tells CBS News He 'Doesn't Know' Who CZ Is, Claims Former Binance CEO Was a Victim

The founder of Binance was "treated really badly" by the Biden administration, President Trump said during an interview.

Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Cautious Calm Returns to BTC Markets as Traders Rebuild Risk

BTC holds near $110K and Ethereum trades around $3,900 as liquidations ease and market makers report clients slowly re-entering risk after the Fed-driven selloff.

Bitcoin (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

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ASTER Zooms 20% as Binance's CZ Purchases 2M Tokens

ASTER is a rebranded derivative platform token with a max supply of 8 billion, focusing on community incentives and decentralized exchange features.

Binance co-founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

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T3 Financial Crime Unit, Backed by Tron, Tether, TRM Labs, Has Now Frozen $300M in Assets

The crypto industry’s most aggressive anti-crime task force just crossed another milestone.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

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Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Lengthy 'FTX Was Never Insolvent' Document

The disgraced FTX founder resurfaced on social media with a sprawling self-defense arguing that customers could have been made whole in 2022.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Analysis: Coinbase's Armstrong Made Prediction Markets Look 'Fun.' Bill Ackman Made Them Look Real

A Coinbase CEO prank resolved one market with a single sentence. Ackman’s warning about “rigged odds” in a $22 million Polymarket election shows the opposite: it now takes institutional-scale money to move prices even 10%.

Crystal Ball, Prediction

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Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Trades at $109K as U.S. ETF Demand Fades and Powell’s Hawkish Tone Hits Risk Assets

CryptoQuant data shows U.S. spot ETF flows turning negative while Glassnode flags heavy long-term holder selling. Solana’s new spot ETFs drew inflows but failed to lift prices as sentiment weakened after large on-chain transfers.

Jerome Powell speaking at podium

Markets

Analysis: Prediction Market Bettors Miscalculated Dutch Election Results

Both Polymarket and Kalshi traders ignored late polls showing D66 gaining ground, keeping Geert Wilders’ PVV priced as a sure thing until exit polls forced a repricing that erased millions in misplaced bets.

Netherlands flag. (Flickr)

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This Bitcoin Market Dynamic Commands Attention as Prices Surge Past $110K Ahead of $13B Options Expiry

Key market dynamic points to potential for heightened market volatility ahead of Friday's options expiry.

High-resolution image of numerous shiny gold bitcoin tokens stacked together.

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: What's the Real Use for a Yen Stablecoin? An Onchain Carry Trade

Unlike most Asian currencies, the yen moves freely across borders, making it the perfect vehicle for an on-chain carry trade that blends Japan’s easy money with DeFi’s appetite for yield.

(Cullen Cedric/Unsplash)