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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Ark Invest Dumps Nearly $45M Worth of Circle Shares as U.S. Senate Passes GENIUS Act

The GENIUS Act is seen as a major win for stablecoin issuers like Circle and the crypto industry at large.

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, at Consensus 2024. (Suzanne Cordiero)

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Asia Morning Briefing: GENIUS Act Positions ETH at the Center of Tokenized Finance, Says Wall Street Veteran

"Every action is powered by ether," Etherealize's founder, Vivek Raman, argues as institutional adoption of Ethereum accelerates amid the stablecoin boom.

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Tron Inc. Deal Gives Justin Sun’s Father Control of Public Firm Via $100M Token Deal

Justin Sun's father, Weike Sun, was appointed Chairman of the Board, and Tron-affiliated executives were added to key board committees.

Crypto's Justin Sun (Tron)

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ARK Invest Offloads Over $50M in Circle Shares as Stock Extends Rally

Cathie Wood’s firm looks to take profit as Circle shares surge nearly fivefold from the IPO.

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Tron's Public Listing Might Be Investors' 'Visa' Moment for Stablecoins

If stablecoins are the future of payments, Tron Inc., not Circle, might be how investors get exposure to these new financial rails, especially in emerging markets.

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Mining Costs Soar as Hashrate Hits Records: TheMinerMag

Public miners race to scale as Bitcoin’s hashrate nears the zetahash threshold.

ASIC miner (Credit: Shutterstock)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Risk of Escalating Israel-Iran Conflict Keeps BTC Around 105K Says QCP

However, other data from Glassnode suggests that investor demand for BTC remains solid.

A military vehicle (Sergey Koznov/Unsplash)

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Cynthia Lummis Proposes Artificial Intelligence Bill, Requiring AI Firms to Disclose Technicals

Sen. Cynthia Lummis' RISE Act sets new transparency standards for AI liability protection, mandating disclosures without forcing companies to open-source their models.

OpenAI (Jonathan Kemper/Unsplash)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Could 3AC and Terraform Be Blamed for Singapore's Crackdown on Offshore Crypto Firms?

What began with Terra and 3AC ends in the Monetary Authority of Singapore's final crackdown on regulatory arbitrage.

Singaporean flag under helicopters (Tomas Vyšniauskas/Unsplash)