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: Traders Focused on Liquidity, FOMC as Asia Opens Its Business Day

Crypto prices remain flat ahead of the FOMC's rate decision.

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Markets

ARK Invest Sells $13.5M Coinbase Shares After Steady Buying Streak

The crypto exchange's shares saw a five-day gain of 22.09%.

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Crypto VC Funding Was Resilient in the Bear Market; It’s Now Powering Through This Mini-Bull Cycle

A Crypto Rank team of analysts wrote that “despite the inherent volatility of the cryptocurrency market, venture capitalists…continue to pour significant investments into the industry.”

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Markets

Open Interest in Bitcoin Futures Hits Yearly High of $12B

An uptick in open interest alongside a price rally is said to confirm an uptrend.

La recuperación alcista de bitcoin logró que el interés abierto alcance máximos anuales. (Will Ess para Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Policy

Taiwan’s Crypto Industry Welcomes Regulatory Announcement

The Financial Supervisory Commission’s chairman confirms the island’s top financial watchdog will regulate crypto.

Taipei skyline (Lisanto/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Hovers Over $28K Amid Banking Instability

ALSO: Bitcoin’s surge over the past week reflects a "flight to quality" but liquidity remains an issue.

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Markets

Wallet Tied to Euler Exploit Sends 100 Ether to Lazarus Group

Lazarus Group was behind the $625 million exploit of Axie Infinity’s Ronin network in March 2022.

Lazarus Group, a cybercrime organization run by the North Korean government, may have links to this week's exploit of Euler Finance. (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Asia Pushes Bitcoin Past $25K

ALSO: The Shibarium community is debating whether a chain using the same chain ID number 917 as the Rinia Testnet amounts to plagiarism or an open-source code that has been recycled.

Arrow Up (Unsplash)

Tech

Plagiarism, Fork or Simple Mistake? Shiba Inu Community Debates the Origin Story of Shibarium

SHIB is down 8% and millions have been unstaked over allegations that the Shibarium code was stolen.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Dips Below $25K as Market Worries About Liquidity

ALSO: CoinDesk's Shaurya Malwa writes that higher-than-usual market volatility affected bulls and bears alike as crypto futures racked up $300 million in liquidations over a 24-hour period earlier this week.

Decentralized derivatives platforms have a liquidity problem, Sam Reynolds writes. (Unsplash)