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.

Sam Reynolds

Latest from Sam Reynolds


Finance

BitGo CEO Says Wrapped Bitcoin’s Critics Aren’t Being ‘Intellectually Honest’ About Their Concerns

The loudest critics of BitGo’s deal with Justin Sun-affiliated BiT Global also want to see their ‘number go up.’

CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe in a chair on-stage at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Polymarket Bettors Miss Out on $270K Due to Pavel Durov's Early Release

Bettors were fairly sure the Telegram CEO would be released in September. His release on Wednesday tossed the market on its head.

(Pavel Durov interviewed by Tucker Carlson for his YouTube channel / Screenshot)

Markets

TON Back Online After Second Outage

TON says its core developer team is looking into why the DOGS token continues to crash the chain.

(Brands&People/Unsplash)

Markets

Institutional Investors Continue to Increase Digital Asset Allocation: Economist Report

The report, commissioned by OKX, shows that a growing number of institutional investors are examining new digital asset products for their portfolio

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

Advertisement

Markets

Toncoin Trims Losses, Beats Bitcoin and Ether, as TON Blockchain Comes Back Online

Toncoin's TON performed better than the CoinDesk 20 as the protocol announced its blockchain had restarted.

Horse race, gallop. (marcelkessler/Pixabay)

Markets

TON Resumes Block Production After Near Six Hour Outage

The network has gone to the DOGS as it struggles to catch up with the popularity of a new TON memcoin.

(Priscilla Du Preez/Unsplash)

Markets

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Could Be Free by October: Polymarket Bettors

A press release from French prosecutors said he could be released Wednesday, but the market isn't confident he'll be out by then.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov (TechCrunch Disrupt Europe/Creative Commons)

Markets

Did RFK Jr. Really 'Drop Out'? Polymarket Bettors Argue Over Contract Resolution

Also: Prediction market traders place bets on Telegram CEO's release from jail and on the spread of mpox.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent U.S. Presidential Candidate, speaks at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk. (CoinDesk/Shutterstock/Suzanne Cordiero)

Advertisement

Markets

AI Tokens Lead Crypto Market Ahead of Nvidia Earnings, Bitcoin Under $64K

Analysts polled by FactSet are expecting Nvidia to hit earnings of 65 cents per share, up 141% year-over-year.

(Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

Markets

Telegram Says It Is Compliant With EU Digital Services Act After Founder Pavel Durov's Arrest

The company says its CEO has nothing to hide as Toncoin's losses subside.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)