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

Ethereum Foundation stakes additional $42 million of ether

About 20,470 ETH, or roughly $42 million, flowed from Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets into the Beacon Chain in a series of coordinated deposits Monday, marking one of the largest visible batches in its ongoing staking rollout.

Vitalik Buterin speaking at ETHDenver in February 2022

Markets

Yield-hungry bitcoin holders may be keeping BTC stuck in a sideways grind

Yield hungry investors seem to have influenced market flows such that they limit price swings.

Daytrading bitcoins financial markets at a coffeeshop. (Austin Distel/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin recovers to $67,400 after dipping below $65,200 as Houthis enter Iran war

The conflict's fifth week brought its widest expansion yet, with Iran-backed forces opening a new front and U.S. ground troops arriving in the region.

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Markets

Hyperliquid traders in Tokyo get 200-millisecond edge, Glassnode research shows

Hyperliquid’s validators cluster in AWS Tokyo alongside Binance, BitMEX and KuCoin, giving nearby traders a latency advantage, Glassnode data shows

Tokyo, Japan (Jaison Lin/Unsplash)

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Policy

Canada moves to ban crypto donations for election campaigns following UK

Bill C-25 follows years of warnings from Canada's Chief Electoral Officer about the risk that crypto donations could pose to electoral integrity.

Mark Carney (Liberal Party)

Markets

Investors yank $171 million from bitcoin ETFs in largest single-day outflow in three weeks

ETFs show institutional demand for bitcoin is cooling after a strong start to the month.

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Markets

Bitcoin macro risks spike as Ukraine messes with Trump's plan to stabilize oil markets

Ukraine’s disruption of Russian oil flows has added fresh uncertainty to already strained energy markets, complicating inflation outlooks and keeping pressure on risk assets including bitcoin.

Oil tanker at sea. (Gerhard Traschütz/Pixabay)

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Tether hires KPMG for USDT audit, brings in PwC as it gears up for U.S. expansion

FT identifies KPMG as auditor as stablecoin giant eyes fundraising and expansion under new U.S. rules

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino at White House

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Bitcoin DAT trade is concentrating in Michael Saylor’s Strategy as treasury demand fades elsewhere

Strategy accounted for nearly all recent BTC digital-asset treasury purchases, with other firms’ share dropping from 95% to about 2%, CryptoQuant data show.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

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There's a huge $14 billion bitcoin options expiry this Friday and it points to $75,000 as price magnet

Bitcoin options worth billions of dollars will expire on Deribit this Friday at 8:00 UTC.

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