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

XRP ETFs attract inflows amid wallet surge. bitcoin, ether funds struggle.

Fresh inflows into XRP-linked funds and a spike in newly created wallets suggest some traders may be rotating into the token while trimming exposure to crypto’s largest assets.

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Markets

Bitcoin trades near $77,700 as analysts eye $75,000 support after liquidation wave

Open interest held steady and funding stayed subdued during the recent liquidation wave, suggesting traders were de-risking rather than capitulating, according to HashKey Research's Tim Sun.

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Markets

Binance launches SpaceX pre-IPO perps amid $2 trillion valuation bets

Binance looks to democratize pre-IPO markets, starting with SpaceX perpetual futures.

Binance founder CZ at Consensus Miami (CoinDesk)

Markets

Don't call us just a WLFI treasury company, says AI Financial

The company says it is building a broader fintech, tokenization and digital infrastructure business, but its latest SEC filing shows WLFI still dominates the balance sheet.

World Liberty Forum at Mar-a-Lago. (WLFI)

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Here's why bitcoin turned lower from the 200-day average

BTC recently turned lower from the 200-day average, a barometer of long-term trends. CryptoQuant explains why.

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Policy

Telegram group at center of Jane Street insider-trading allegations in Terra collapse

Newly unsealed filings detail a private chat dubbed ‘Bryce’s Secret’ that Terraform’s estate says gave Jane Street an informational edge before UST’s collapse.

Do Kwon (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Non-dollar stablecoins are struggling to crack 0.5% of market share

Everyone is building non-dollar stablecoins. But data shows that compared to USD-denominated stablecoins, almost no one is using them.

Fiat currencies. (Roman Synkevych/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin is falling, bond yields are rising. Yet BTC’s implied volatility, an uncertainty gauge, remains low.

BTC's implied volatility remains low despite the recent price selloff. Options specialist prefers a long straddle strategy in this scenario.

Charts, graph. (Adam Åšmigielski/Unsplash)

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BSC’s quantum defense works. The trade-off is 40% slower transaction throughput.

BSC’s quantum-security test worked, but bigger transaction data slowed network throughput by about 40%.

Stylized BNB token logo (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Echo Protocol suffers $76 million exploit in eBTC minting attack on Monad

The Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol suffered an attack whereby about 1,000 unauthorized eBTC $77 million were minted on the Monad blockchain

Hacker sitting in a room (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)