Sam Kessler

Sam Kessler

Sam is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for tech and protocols. His reporting is focused on decentralized technology, infrastructure and governance. Sam holds a computer science degree from Harvard University, where he led the Harvard Political Review. He has a background in the technology industry and owns some ETH and BTC. Sam was part of the team that won a 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for CoinDesk's coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX collapse.

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Protocol Village is CoinDesk's living column chronicling blockchain tech project updates (CoinDesk)
Protocol Village: Radix Launches 'RadQuest,' Eclipse Mainnet Opens to Builders
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of July 25-31.
Protocol Village is CoinDesk's living column chronicling blockchain tech project updates (CoinDesk)
Ben Leventhal, Blackbird founder (Blackbird)
Blackbird, Web3 Startup From Resy Co-Founder, Wants Diners to Pay for Meals in Crypto
Blackbird Pay would allow diners to pay for their food using $FLY, the cryptocurrency that doubles as loyalty points in Blackbird's restaurant rewards system.
Ben Leventhal, Blackbird founder (Blackbird)
Hyperbolic CEO Jasper Zhang (Hyperbolic)
Polychain, Lightspeed Lead $7M Fundraise for Math Olympian's Blockchain-Based AI Platform
Hyperbolic's blockchain-based cloud platform aims to make AI affordable to startups, researchers and builders squeezed by surging GPU prices.
Hyperbolic CEO Jasper Zhang (Hyperbolic)
Rolled up paper (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)
Rollup-in-a-Box Startup Caldera Raises $15M From Peter Thiel's Venture Fund
As Ethereum's Layer-2 ecosystem booms, Caldera's "Metalayer" aims to help developers quickly launch applications across multiple networks.
Rolled up paper (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)
Richard Kim pitched Zero Edge as a crypto casino that would level the playing field between gamblers and the house (Carl Raw/Unsplash)
Crypto Casino Founder Apologizes for Gambling Away Investor Funds
Galaxy says it has reported a former general partner, Richard Kim, to the authorities for misappropriating at least $3.67 million of company funds belonging to Zero Edge, Kim'...
Richard Kim pitched Zero Edge as a crypto casino that would level the playing field between gamblers and the house (Carl Raw/Unsplash)
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Exponential.fi Wants to Make It Easier to Invest in DeFi
The platform aims to make it easy to identify opportunities, bridge fiat, assess risk, and invest in crypto all-in-one.
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Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant (Ritual)
Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company
Polychain says Niraj Pant broke the fund's policies by secretly accepting "adviser" tokens from Eclipse.
Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant (Ritual)
The Protocol Wide
The Significance of User-Owned AI and NEAR Protocol's Emphasis on Practical Applications
NEAR’s co-founder Illia Polosukhin shares the need to shift from corporate-owned AI to models that benefit individuals and communities.
The Protocol Wide
Distributed validator technology involves splitting up the job of running a validator on blockchains like Ethereum. (Onasill/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)
Obol Labs Forms Industry Group to Push for Decentralized Validator Technology
As blockchain projects push to further decentralize, the developer Obol Labs has formed a group of companies working in the Ethereum ecosystem to concentrate on the growing fi...
Distributed validator technology involves splitting up the job of running a validator on blockchains like Ethereum. (Onasill/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)
Bitcoin logo (Getty Images)
Bitcoin Could Get Ethereum-Style Restaking as Startup Lombard Raises $16M
Lombard is partnering with staking startup Babylon to let users earn interest for "restaking" with Bitcoin – using the asset to secure other crypto networks.
Bitcoin logo (Getty Images)