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.

Sam Reynolds

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Finance

Animoca Brands Files for Nasdaq Listing Via Reverse Merger

The deal aims to expand Animoca's investor base and enhance access to its digital assets and growth companies.

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Standard Chartered CEO Sees Hong Kong Stablecoin as Pivotal for International Trade Settlement

At FinTech Week, the Standard Chartered CEO said Hong Kong’s digital asset pilots, including HKD-backed stablecoins and tokenized deposits, could transform cross-border trade, as regulators unveiled new rules allowing shared order books for crypto exchanges.

Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, speaks during HK Fintech Week (screenshot)

Policy

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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Markets

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

Policy

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)

Markets

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)

Markets

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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Markets

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)