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

Public Token Treasuries and Tokenization are Fantastic for Crypto, But Risks Remain, Binance's CZ Says

Tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) is accelerating, bringing stablecoins, treasury bills, real estate and more into the crypto ecosystem, CZ added.

CZ speaks at BTC Asia in Hong Kong (screenshot)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Stablecoins Offer Beijing What e-CNY Can’t in Cross-Border Use, Economist Says

Dollar dominance thanks to stablecoins is pushing China to explore stablecoins, but capital controls limit the project to Hong Kong’s offshore renminbi market, where liquidity is thin.

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Asia Morning Briefing: ETH Bulls Eyeing $5K as Flows Strengthen

Ethereum’s outperformance over Bitcoin is being reinforced by institutional flows, new altcoin narratives, and rising market odds of a $5K test, with macro data now set to challenge that conviction.

Gold ether coins in a small pile, symbolizing ETH investment

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Polymarket Bettors Doubt Trump Can Topple Jerome Powell or Lisa Cook This Year

Polymarket sees Powell finishing 2025 unscathed, even as Trump’s bid to oust Lisa Cook tests the Fed’s legal shield.

President Donald Trump  (The White House)

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Asia Morning Briefing: BTC Fragility and ETH Rotation Signal Market Bracing for Consolidation Without New Liquidity

Retail leverage keeps getting flushed as ETFs log billion-dollar outflows, while whales and sovereign players quietly accumulate ETH and BTC into volatility.

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Decentralized Science Project Aubrai Launches on Base to Tackle Science Funding's ‘Valley of Death’

The decentralized AI agent, trained on unpublished longevity research from Aubrey de Grey’s lab, uses BIO Protocol's launchpad to fund experiments and tokenize discoveries.

science, lab (CoinDesk Archives)

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Philippine Congressman Proposes Bitcoin Reserve to Attack National Debt

Modeled after oil, maple syrup, and grain reserves, the proposed Strategic Bitcoin Reserve positions BTC as a sovereign asset alongside traditional stockpiles.

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Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin’s ETFs Kill the Transaction Fees, Punishing the Miners More

Capital is piling into ETFs and custodians while Solana takes retail traffic, but Bitcoin’s onchain demand remains stagnant, deepening concerns over whether miners can sustain the network without meaningful fees.

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

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Windtree’s BNB Treasury Bet Collides With Nasdaq Delisting Order

Biotech firm Windtree touted itself as the first Nasdaq-listed company to build a BNB treasury. Weeks later, the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered it delisted.

Nasdaq. (CoinDesk Archives)

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DBS Launches Tokenized Structured Notes on Ethereum, Expanding Investor Access

The launch builds on other tokenization pilots, with DBS moving from permissioned blockchains to Ethereum’s public network as banks test how tokenized assets will scale across global markets.

Singaporean flag under helicopters (Tomas Vyšniauskas/Unsplash)