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

First Mover Asia: The Renminbi Rises; Cryptos Suffer Another Lost Weekend

The value of RMB payments gained over 10% compared to December amid an inauspicious test of the digital yuan at the Winter Olympics. Bitcoin and major altcoins tumbled as tensions continued mounting on the Ukraine border.

Chinese President Xi Jinping

Finance

Frax Finance Is Preparing to Airdrop a CPI-Linked Stablecoin

An algorithmic stablecoin tied to U.S. consumer prices will be given to holders of cvxFXS, veFXS stakers, participants in the FXS liquidity pool and tFXS stakers.

Frax Finance's Sam Kazemian (Michael Allen/Wikiedia Commons)

Finance

Hackers Behind AscendEX Breach Move $1.5M Ether to Uniswap

Security research firm PeckShield points to on-chain data that shows 516 ether is on the move

Hackers, data

Finance

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Slips Below $43K as Ukraine Shadows Financial Markets

The latest moves in crypto markets in context for Feb. 17, 2022.

First Mover banner

Finance

DeFi Project Ref Finance Closes $4.8M Round Led by Jump Crypto

Alameda Research and Dragonfly Capital also participated in the round.

Digital $10 bill (Wikimedia Commons, modified using PhotoMosh)

Markets

Bitcoin Traders Preparing for Tumultuous March, Glassnode Says

Traders are de-leveraging because of expected turbulence coming from rate hikes and the potential conflict in Ukraine.

Federal Reserve building (Paul Brady Photography/Shutterstock)

Finance

Housecat Raises $3.4M to Help Bridge DeFi, Investment Management

Ville Vesterinen, CEO and co-founder, calls it the “Substack of asset management” with a crypto twist.

(svklimkin/Flickr Creative Commons)

Markets

GALA Jumps 20%, Leads Metaverse Index Gains

The gains came on the back of a $5 billion investment plan announcement by Gala Games and other major deal and event news.

Captura de Legacy, un título de Gala Games (CoinDesk)

Finance

DBS Plans to Launch Retail Digital Assets Trading Desk by Year End

DBS CEO Piyush Gupta says there’s a lot of work to be done, but the bank expects platform to be live by end of 2022.

Piyush Gupta, chief executive officer of DBS Group Holdings

Markets

Vietnam-Based Summoners Arena Raises $3M

The funding round for the video game developer was led by Pantera Capital.

(Getti Images)