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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Uber Is Once Again Considering Crypto Payments, Years After Mulling BTC as Payment Method

Uber also made these claims in September 2021 and February 2022

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Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Bulls Eye $120K Despite Trump-Musk Turmoil

PLUS: $TRUMP token slumps on Trump-Musk drama and wallet fallout

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Policy

Hong Kong Set to Allow Crypto Derivatives Trading

Crypto derivatives are a much larger market than spot trading.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Vitalik's Plan Can Bring ETH to $3K and Crypto 'More Popular' Than Stocks in South Korea

Left-leaning Lee Jae-myung won't change the nation's crypto policies, Hashed CEO Simon Kim said in an interview with CoinDesk

South Korea's flag (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash)

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Circle Prices IPO at $31 Per Share, Valuing Stablecoin Issuer at $6.9 Billion

Circle’s IPO exceeds expectations with a surge in demand, pushing shares above the marketed range.

(Sandali Handagama/ CoinDesk)

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Hybrid Crypto Exchange GRVT Debuts Onchain Retail Price Improvement Orders, Bridging DeFi and TradFi

The system matches retail traders with non-algorithmic traders, ensuring fair play and a balanced trading environment.

GRVT launches retail price improvement orders. (ArtfulColorWorks/Pixabay)

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s Social Media Firm Truth Social to Launch Spot Bitcoin ETF

NYSE Arca, an arm of the New York Stock Exchange, submitted paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump  (The White House)

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Asia Morning Briefing: ETH On-Chain Metrics Signal Potential Bull Run Ahead

Bizantine Capital is all-in on ETH as Ethereum prepares to take on Solana and return to layer-one dominance.

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Coinbase Moves to Bring Oregon Securities Suit to Federal Jurisdiction

Coinbase slams Oregon's lawsuit as a 'regulatory land grab,' accusing the state's attorney general of trying to override federal crypto guidelines.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Crypto Industry 'Unprepared' For Quantum Threat Says Analyst

PLUS: BTC is developing a correlation with Japanese 30-year bonds.

Quantum Computing Optics (Ben Wicks/Unsplash)