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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Tech

Atomic Wallet Users Hacked for $35M Worth of Bitcoin, Ether, Tether and Other Tokens

Atomic Wallet said Monday that “less than 1%” of its monthly active users were impacted in the weekend breach.

Wallets (RitaE/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Why Did Bitcoin's Price Hold Above $27K Over the Weekend? Two Analysts Expect Continued Resilience

ALSO: The bitcoin options put/call ratio across exchanges has sunk to 0.47, suggesting that fewer investors are seeking downside protection against price declines than they had prior to the passage of a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

Bitcoin week-long chart (CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Has Reached 'a General Accumulation Phase': Analyst

ALSO: BTC-20 tokens are pushing toward a $500 million market cap, and data from Glassnode shows that they have been a boon for miners.

Bitcoin daily price chart. (CoinDesk Indexes)

Markets

First Digital Unveils USD Stablecoin as Hong Kong Crypto Rules Kick In

The stablecoin is issued by a registered trust owned by First Digital.

Hong Kong (Unsplash)

Policy

U.S. Criminal Charges Against Sam Bankman-Fried Don’t Warrant Dismissal, Prosecutors Say

Lawyers for the disgraced FTX executive filed pre-trial motions in early May to dismiss most of the charges on technicalities or procedural issues.

Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court on February 16, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Does Crypto’s Success Depend on the Upcoming Presidential Election?

ALSO: The Commitment of Traders report shows that asset managers have increased their open long positions in bitcoin after falling in the two prior weeks.

The White House, Washington, D.C. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Tech

Arbitrum Based Jimbos Protocol Scurries for Revival After $7M Exploit

Version 2 of Jimbos protocol was attacked over the weekend for $7.3 million, just days after going live.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Finance

Singapore's Temasek to Exercise Caution in Crypto Space After FTX Nightmare

Temasek wrote down the entirety of its investment in FTX in November.

Singapore-based Vauld now has protection from its creditor until Jan. 20.  (Shutterstock)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Rises Past $28K on Debt Ceiling Deal

ALSO: A Chinese governmental agency released a paper over the weekend that outlined suggestions for China's Web3 policy, but it didn't broach must new ground. Still, the paper represented progress for a country that is keen to write the next generation of technology standards

(Pixabay)