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

Javier Milei Faces Charges in Argentina Over LIBRA: AP

Milei deleted posts promoting the token and claimed he was unaware of its development.

Argentina's President Javier Milei at Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 (Getty Images)

Finance

Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders' Pocket $87M

Milei deleted his original promotional tweet and revealed that he wasn't aware of its details.

(Planet Volumes/Unsplash)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Justin Sun on Mars, Tropico, Game of Thrones, and That Banana

Sam Reynolds meets TRON's founder at home in Hong Kong.

Crypto's Justin Sun (Tron)

Markets

Bitcoin Miner Riot Adds New Board Member to Push AI Pivot

Riot also announced it has hired investment banks Evercore and Northland Capital Markets to lead discussions with potential AI and HPC partners.

mining rig. (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

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Markets

LinksDAO Plans to Launch a Community Token on Base

LinksDAO began by selling NFTs, but the market has moved on in the time since.

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Markets

Fireblocks Adds Support for Sony's Soneium, First Step in Provision of Custody Services

Support for Soneium is a precursor for firms to use Fireblocks' technology to provide crypto custody services on the month-old blockchain.

Sony (CoinDesk Archives)

Policy

Hong Kong Confirms Bitcoin, Ether Can Be Used to Prove Wealth for Investment Visa

Hong Kong's New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme, a visa targeting wealthy migrants, accepts crypto as a means to prove required net worth, a spokesperson confirms.

Hong Kong's skyline (Chris Lam/CoinDesk)

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Hong Kong’s Patient Approach to Regulating Crypto Will Pay Off: LegCo's Duncan Chiu

Devising clear rules for the industry is important, but it can also help to wait for others to move first, argues Chiu.

Duncan Chiu

Markets

Polymarket Bettors Punt $1.1B on Superbowl Results, Despite Regulatory Overhang

The Philadelphia Eagles won the Superbowl, but the Kansas City Chiefs were the early favorite on Polymarket.

A football placed on a field. (Dave Adamson/Unsplash)