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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.

Sam Reynolds

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Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Drop Over 5% in Massive Sell-Off as Market Continues to Digest Silvergate

Bitcoin plunged to $22,277 and ether hit $1,563 as crypto tumbled during the opening hours of East Asia's trading day.

Hong Kong (Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Continues to Look East for Strength

ALSO: CoinDesk columnist Glenn Williams Jr. writes that on-chain indicators show that 70% of Bitcoin addresses are profitable

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Finance

Binance's Custody Arm Ceffu Will Apply for Singapore License: Report

Binance rebranded its custody arm to Ceffu earlier this month.

Merlion Park in Singapore (Pixabay)

Finance

Voyager Digital's Reward Program Lost $58M in 2022: Court Filing

Rewards program included high-yield interest accounts, a refer-a-friend scheme and a mechanism to share in the spread of trades should they execute at a lower asking price.

Right after Voyager CEO Stephen Ehrlich received a letter this week from U.S. regulators accusing his company of misleading customers, the FDIC issued a broader warning to banks to not let it happen again. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Finance

Institutions in Asia Aren’t Interested in Liquid Staking: Hex Trust

Liquid staking has become the second biggest DeFi vertical, but Asia-based institutions are not impressed.

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Markets

First Mover Asia: NFTs Have a ‘Digital First Sale’ Problem

ALSO: Short interest is rising on China tokens while bitcoin treads water just above $23,000.

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Finance

Non-Custodial Liquid Staking Platform Ether.Fi Closes $5.3M Fundraise

The round was co-led by North Island Ventures, Chapter One and Node Capital and included participation from BitMex founder Arthur Hayes.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Core Developer Luke Dashjr Calls Out Unauthorized Ordinal NFT With His Name

The auction for the ordinal was being hosted at Scarce.City, a new ordinal marketplace.

Ordinals is exploding on Bitcoin (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Stays Rooted Near $23.5K

ALSO: Sam Reynolds writes about the complicated relationship between layer 1 blockchain Coinflux’s CFX token and China and asks if it has triple-digit growth potential.

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Finance

French Police Arrest Duo Involved in Platypus Crypto Exploit

Flash loan exploit drained protocol of over $9 million in assets and knocked Platypus USD (USP) off its peg.

Paris, France (allewollenalex/Unsplash)