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

Defunct Exchange Mt. Gox Moves $1B in Bitcoin to Two Wallets

This is the third significant on-chain movement of funds by the exchange in four weeks.

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk screenshot from conference livestream)

Markets

Binance Wallet Suspends Staff Member Over Front-Running Allegations

Binance did not name the token involved in the allegations, and confirmed that no insider trading took place.

Binance

Markets

Philippines' Largest Digital Wallet GCash Adds USDC Support

The country's largest digital wallet platform now offers support for stablecoins via USDC.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle (CoinDesk)

Markets

TRUMP Token Pops 12% After U.S. President Calls It 'The Greatest of Them All'

Donald Trump's Truth Social post sends the presidential meme coin flying.

Donald Trump speaking at the White House crypto summit. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, XRP and SOL Rise With U.S. Equity Futures as Trump Plans Targeted Action for Tariffs 'Liberation Day'

SOL leads BTC and XRP higher as SPX futures cheer reports that expected Trump tariffs on April 2 could be narrower in scope that initially expected.

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Finance

Fidelity Files for Onchain U.S. Treasury Fund, Joining the Asset Tokenization Race

Tokenized money market funds has grown sixfold in a year to 4.8 billion, currently led by BlackRock's product.

Fidelity Investments sign (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock)

Markets

Real-World Assets Cross $10 Billion in Total Value Locked: DeFiLlama

Growth comes from increases in TVL on Ethena USDtb and BlackRock's BUIDL.

A Treasury Bill

Policy

Australia Proposes New Crypto Regulation Structure, Plans to Integrate Digital Assets Into the Economy

The government's plan will direct different parts of the government to research different aspects of digital assets, including tokenization and CBDCs.

Australia's Parliament in Canberra (Social Estate/Unsplash)

Markets

Polymarket is 90% Accurate in Predicting World Events: Research

Research shows that Polymarket is 90% accurate in predicting how events will occur one month out, and 94% four hours before the event occurs.

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (Polymarket)

Policy

The Man Who Stabbed CEO of South Korean Crypto Firm Haru Invest Could Face Decade in Prison

The CEO of South Korea’s Haru Invest was stabbed in court during his fraud trial in August 2024.

South Korea flag (Planet Volumes / Unsplash)