Sam Kessler

Sam is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for tech and protocols. His reporting is focused on decentralized technology, infrastructure and governance. Sam holds a computer science degree from Harvard University, where he led the Harvard Political Review. He has a background in the technology industry and owns some ETH and BTC. Sam was part of the team that won a 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for CoinDesk's coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX collapse.

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Finance

ConsenSys to Update MetaMask Crypto Wallet in Response to Privacy Backlash

The firm clarified its data-sharing practices and said it will rebuild MetaMask’s settings page to address user concerns.

Ribbon's unsecured lending product, Lend, went live on Monday. (Pixabay)

Tech

MetaMask IP-Sharing Debacle Highlights the Scourge of Crypto Centralization

Centralized intermediaries have seeped deep into the crypto user experience, but they continue to be its main path to adoption.

Is centralization unavoidable? (Unsplash)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried Addresses Withdrawals, FTX Collapse in Newly Released Audio Interview

The FTX founder said he unpaused Bahamian FTX withdrawals to “appease” local customers and added his lawyers to the groups of people he said can “go f**k themselves.”

El ex CEO de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum R&D Firm Flashbots Shares Details About Its Next-Gen Block Builder

After teasing Suave at this year’s Devcon, Flashbots outlines how the plug-and-play solution will transform the way validators earn MEV.

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Tech

Alameda-Backed Crypto Trading Firm 3Commas Says It’s Pretty Sure It Wasn’t Breached

Users who have lost millions suspect 3Commas of leaking sensitive API credentials, but the trading bot firm insists that it is not to blame for the stolen funds “to our best current knowledge.”

(Getty Images)

Twitter Spaces: Crypto’s Lehman Moment, What FTX Means for DeFi

How will FTX’s collapse fuel the case for decentralized finance?

Twitter Spaces: FTX – 1) What

Tech

Matter Labs Nets $200M to Build zkSync Ethereum Scaling Platform

A week after zkSync V2’s “baby alpha” launch, Matter Labs said it would open-source its code and push for improved standards around rollup development.

Hermez rollup is live on Ethereum's network (Unsplash)

Tech

4 Key Takeaways from the FTX Fiasco

The real reason why the FTX failure hits so hard is not because the crypto industry was duped, but because it proved that the industry was vulnerable to being duped.

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Finance

Crypto Fund Galois Capital Has Half of Its Capital Trapped on FTX

The locked funds total around $40 million, according to co-founder Kevin Zhou.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

'FTX Has Been Hacked': Crypto Disaster Worsens as Exchange Sees Mysterious Outflows Exceeding $600M

FTX officials appeared to confirm rumors of a hack on Telegram, instructing users to delete FTX apps and avoid its website.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images)