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

Pi rallies more than 30% after Kraken announces listing

Bybit previously declined to list the mobile crypto mining platform, with CEO Ben Zhou citing warnings from Chinese police that the project is a scam.

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Markets

Oil veteran is putting the $6 trillion crude market on blockchain

LITRO aims to modernize the $6 trillion oil market by replacing slow, paper-based settlement with 24/7, on-chain trading and redemption.

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Markets

Across's acx rockets 80%, massively beating bitcoin, on plans to dump its DAO structure

The bridging protocol's team wants to exchange ACX tokens for equity in a new U.S. C-corp or buy holders out at a 25% premium, in what would be one of the first major reversals from token to traditional corporate structure.

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Tech

Crypto code commits fall 75% as developers move to AI projects

Developers are shifting toward artificial intelligence infrastructure as blockchain ecosystems lose contributors across major networks, from Ethereum to Solana.

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Tech

Bonk.fun hacked: Domain hijacked, crypto drainer planted

The operator, known as Tom, said only users who signed a fake terms-of-service message on the compromised site after the breach were affected.

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Finance

Binance, PayPal and Ripple join Mastercard’s massive new push into blockchain payments

More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.

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Markets

Coinbase-backed AI payments protocol wants to fix micropayment but demand is just not there yet

Agentic commerce holds promise, but data shows that x402 is still in the trial phase

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Markets

Next week could spice things up for bitcoin as seven central banks face an inflation test

Seven major central banks, including the Federal Reserve, will issue rate decisions next week just as war-driven oil price spikes raise fresh concerns about global inflation.

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Policy

Senate Democrats push prediction market limits, including banning bets on war, death

One Senate Democrat's bill would write the prohibition into federal law even as the CFTC shifts toward a more permissive stance on event contracts.

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Markets

Ethereum's on fire with record activity, but ether price and blockchain fees lag

Capital outflows, even as activity surges across Ethereum’s ecosystem, highlight the growing disconnect between usage growth and ETH’s market performance, a CryptoQuant report shows.

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