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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Mercati

Fed Rate-Cut Anticipation Weighs on Crypto Markets as Week Kicks Off

PLUS: Sony’s Soneium blockchain is growing, with Circle announcing that USDC will be listed on the chain.

Fed Chair Jay Powell is set to speak after the central bank held policy steady (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Jumps Over $58K Amid Tech Stock Rally, SUI Outperforms

SUI outperformed the market, rising over 16%, possibly due to Grayscale's new Sui Trust announcement.

Bitcoin jumped over $58,000 on Thursday amid a rally in U.S. tech stocks. (Denny Luan/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin Slides, Yen Gains as Trump-Harris Debate Disappoints Markets

The yen picked up a strong bid in late July as the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates for the first time in decades, triggering an unwinding of the risk-on yen carry trades.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris debate for the first time during the presidential election. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Politiche

Harris Won U.S. Presidential Debate Versus Trump, Polymarket Betting Suggests

Crypto was once again not mentioned in the second 2024 debate, the first between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Politiche

Former FTX Executive Caroline Ellison's Sentencing Hearing Set for Sept. 24

Ellison ran Alameda Research, the FTX-affiliated hedge fund, and testified that she committed fraud at founder Sam Bankman-Fried's direction last year.

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)

Finanza

Tron, Tether and TRM Labs Start Financial Crime Fighting Force

The T3 Financial Crime Unit is looking to clean up USDT issued on Tron, a blockchain favored by bad actors.

Justin Sun (CoinDeskTV)

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Bitcoin ETFs Post $28.7M Inflows After Record Losing Streak

BTC exchange traded funds (ETFs) inflows are back in the green, despite BTC's price slipping.

Wall Street has bitcoin mining mergers on its mind. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Analisi delle Notizie

Kamala Harris Will 'Win' First Debate With Trump, Polymarket Traders Are Betting

Also, there are now prediction market contracts about other prediction market contracts.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - SEPTEMBER 02: Flanked by labor union leaders, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to union workers during a campaign event on September 02, 2024 at Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan. Harris is scheduled to host another event in Pennsylvania later in the day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Mercati

Bitcoin 'Grossly Undervalued' at Current Prices, Traders Say Ahead of CPI, Trump-Harris Debate Week

The asset and broader crypto market tend to move on the release of U.S. economic figures and political developments.

(16:9 CROP) Bull and Bear (Rawpixel)

Finanza

Mt. Gox Wouldn't Have Happened With Modern Tools, Mark Karpeles Says

As the former Mt. Gox CEO launches his new exchange and ‘Ungox’ venture, he reflects on what he wishes he could have done differently a decade ago.

Mark Karpeles (left), Former CEO of Mt. Gox, talking to CoinDesk's Sam Reynolds at Korea Blockchain Week on Sept. 4. (Parikshit Mishra/CoinDesk)