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

Asia Morning Briefing: BTC Smashes Through All-Time High With No Sell Pressure on the Horizon

A new report from CryptoQuant shows that, unlike BTC rallies of the past, there's no sell pressure building as bitcoin moves past its prior all-time high.

Bitcoin (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

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Justin Sun Wants to Make TRUMP a Global Crypto Brand With $100M Buy

"We will make TRUMP token very popular in Asia and in the rest of the world," Sun said in an interview with CoinDesk.

Justin Sun at the $TRUMP holders dinner (TRON)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Nvidia’s Rally to $4 Trillion Might Have Helped BTC, But Correlation Is Waning

The Correlation between the GPU giant's stock and BTC is down from last year.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

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'This Isn’t Decentralized,' Says Polymarket Power User as Zelenskyy's Suit Controversy Unfolds

In the wake of UMA’s controversial ruling on whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy wore a suit, one of Polymarket’s top traders says the dispute system is broken, and is costing the platform users.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Urkaine

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Robinhood Says OpenAI Stock Tokens Backed by Special Purpose Vehicle

Vlad Tenev told CNBC that these tokens are technically not equity, but provide similar exposure.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

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Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Stalls Near $109K as Market Waits for a Catalyst

As Bitcoin trades near highs, market flows are clustering into large caps and memes, with mid-tier tokens losing momentum, say market observers.

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Policy

Over 40 Firms Prepping for Hong Kong Stablecoin License Applications: Report

The number of approved applications is expected to be small, according to reports from China media.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

Markets

Eric Trump to Headline BTC Asia in August

Trump previously spoke at CoinDesk's Consensus conference in Toronto

Eric Trump, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, American Bitcoin speaks at Consensus 2025. (CoinDesk)

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Asia Morning Briefing: BTC’s Institutional Waves Are Building, Not Breaking

Despite short-term demand jitters, Saphira’s Jeff Dyment says BTC’s institutional adoption is accelerating in cyclical waves, not stalling, with options data backing up that thesis.

(Rob Miller/Unsplash)

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Hyperliquid Trader Qwatio Loses $3.7M This Week on Extreme Bitcoin, Ether Shorts

Qwatio currently has a BTC short position with 40X leverage, and a 25x leveraged short on ETH.

A bear cools itself, lying on its back in shallow water. (Unsplash, mana5280)