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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Nikita Bier says crypto has had a rough year, hints at building something new as X Money launch nears

The head of product's viral one-liner lands weeks before Elon Musk's fiat payments app goes live with a 6% yield and a Visa card

Nikita Bier. (source: lightspeed ventures)

Markets

Little-known token ranks alongside bitcoin and ether in the top three — just not in the way you think

RAVE has surged several thousand percent in seven days, driving frenzied trading activity and large liquidations, second only to industry leaders bitcoin and ether.

Cars racing on a track. (mibro/Pixabay)

Markets

Ether outpaces bitcoin as ETF flows split and Ethereum activity jumps 41% on-week

Ether is outperforming bitcoin as ETF flows, spot prices and a 41% jump in Ethereum transactions move in the same direction for the first time in months.

Abstract green wireframe bull charging forward on a striped background. (CoinDesk)

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World Liberty Financial executes a massive $22 million stablecoin shuffle amid its borrowing controversy

The mint and a simultaneous $3 million burn come days after the venture said it had repaid $25 million of the borrowing position that left depositors unable to withdraw from a DeFi lending pool.

Consensus 2025: Zak Folkman, Eric Trump

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Bank of Korea calls for stock-style circuit breakers on BTC exchanges

Crypto's 24/7 global trading across hundreds of venues makes it difficult for any single country to halt the market.

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

Markets

StarkWare cuts jobs in reorganization as Starknet revenue plunges 99% from peak

Days after unveiling a quantum-safe bitcoin method, a StarkWare researcher was tapped to lead a new applications unit as Layer-2 revenue dries up.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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Alameda moves $16 million in Solana's SOL token for possible creditor distribution

Alameda unstakes $16 million worth of Solana's SOL token, according to Arkham.

Caroline Ellison, the government's star witness in their case against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, leaving court on Tuesday, Oct. 11 following her first day of testimony. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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WLFI threatens legal action against Justin Sun after he accuses Trump-linked project of deceptive DeFi deals

Trump-backed crypto project says it has ‘contracts’ and ‘evidence’ after Sun accused it of exploiting users.

Justin Sun of TRON and Zak Folkman of World Liberty Financial speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Strategy signals another bitcoin buy as company needs just 2% annual BTC growth to cover dividends

The company bought nearly three times more bitcoin than miners produced in March and is signaling it isn't done, even as its holdings remain billions underwater.

Michael Saylor

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Tron’s Justin Sun slams Trump-backed WLFI for treating users as ‘personal ATM’ after $75 Million DeFi loan

Once WLFI's largest outside backer, Sun is going public days after the Trump-family venture borrowed $75 million against its own token on a DeFi protocol advised by one of its own insiders.

World Liberty Financial's Zak Folkman (Right) at Consensus Hong Kong on Feb. 19. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)