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

Cathie Wood’s ARK Loads Up on Ether Treasury Bet Bitmine Immersion

ARK Invest deepens its ether exposure, buying 4.4 million shares of Tom Lee- and Peter Thiel-backed Bitmine Immersion Technologies, while trimming its holdings in Coinbase, among others.

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

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Bittensor Infrastructure Firm xTAO to Debut on Canada's TSX Venture Exchange

The listing follows TAO Synergies', another listed company's, recent $10M purchase of the TAO token.

AI agent tokens has garnered significant mindshare among crypto traders, growing into a multibillion dollar asset class. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: U.S. BTC ETF Inflows Dwarf Hong Kong's as Local Investors Stick With Stocks

Hong Kong crypto ETFs saw just $14.1 million in inflows last week while the U.S. brought in $4.36 billion. However, Hong Kong issuers may be waiting for a door to open to mainland China.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Miners and Whales Dumping BTC Amid Rally May Signal 'Local Top'

BTC’s rally to all-time highs triggered the largest miner sell-off since April, with 16K BTC moved to exchanges.

(André François McKenzie/Unsplash)

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Crypto Market Cap Crosses $4T After XRP, ETH Rally

Achievement comes as the CoinDesk 20 crosses all-time high.

Exuberance. (Creative Commons)

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Asia Morning Briefing: The Altcoin Season Ramps Up as BTC Rotation Begins

Analysts at market maker Enflux see the altcoin market heating up as traders take profit from BTC and rotate into ETH.

Statue of a bull (ianproc64/Pixabay)

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Uniswap Labs President Mary-Catherine Lader Steps Down After Four Years

Lader helped steer Uniswap through rising scrutiny toward a more favorable U.S. regulatory climate.

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Policy

Polymarket Odds on Jerome Powell's Ouster Jumps as Congresswoman Says It's 'Imminent'

Significant legal challenges would arise from an attempt to remove Fed chair Jerome Powell, but Polymarket bettors are warming to the idea – even if it's still a longshot.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 30, 2022. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Asia Morning Briefing: BTC Pulls Back as Market Isn't 'Invincible', But Google, Meta Lift AI Tokens

PLUS: Maple Finance is now crypto's largest on-chain asset manager.

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