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

Laywer pops up on Arbitrum DAO forums seeking funds for victims of decades-old North Korean terrorist acts

Families holding decades-old judgments against North Korea are trying to seize 30,765 ETH frozen after last month’s rsETH exploit, citing alleged links between the attack and DPRK-linked hacking groups such as Lazarus, and invoking a New York restraining notice that could block Arbitrum from releasing the funds.

North Korea flag

Finance

Coinbase boosts Solana trading with DFlow integration

Coinbase adding DFlow as its primary router will mean eight times less trade failures.

Coinbase logo shown on a laptop screen

Markets

Recovery in bitcoin ETF inflows is real. It is just not complete yet.

While ETF inflows have resumed, the recovery has yet to match last fall’s peak.

ETFs (Markus Winkler/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Strategy raised $82 million last week but holds off on bitcoin buys ahead of earnings

Michael Saylor says the company will resume purchases next week, but the pause lands as analysts focus on losses and the growing complexity of Strategy’s preferred-stock funding machine.

Michael Saylor

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Markets

Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as flows build, but traders hedge and doubt a breakout

Strong ETF inflows and rising leverage are lifting prices, yet CryptoQuant data shows weak spot demand and Polymarket odds put just a 23% chance on $90,000 this month.

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Markets

The Green Beret was just the start: New data suggests military insider trading crisis on Polymarket

New data shows unusually high win rates in defense bets, building on research that 3% of traders drive prices and under 1% capture most profits.

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Markets

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial races toward 62 billion token unlock with near-unanimous vote

Proposal introduces vesting for 40.7 billion insider tokens after 2-year cliff, even as voting power remains concentrated among a handful of large holders

Consensus 2025: Zak Folkman, Eric Trump

Markets

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token could be its prediction market weapon, Arthur Hayes says

HIP-4 could become a dominant prediction-market venue because Hyperliquid users can get economic exposure to platform usage through HYPE, unlike users of Polymarket or Kalshi.

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Markets

A tiny group is winning on Polymarket as under 1% of wallets take half the profits

After research showed a small minority moves prices, new data suggests an even smaller group captures roughly half of all gains.

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Policy

Fake Hong Kong stablecoins start trading as real ones remain absent

Tokens using ‘HKDAP’ and ‘HSBC’ tickers are circulating even as the HKMA says no licensed stablecoins have been issued

Hong Kong view over Victoria Harbour.