Our Authors
55 expert analysts and writers covering every corner of crypto. 1,000 articles published.
Marcus Chen
Former Goldman Sachs analyst turned crypto researcher. Covers market structure, institutional adoption, and macro trends.
Alex Torres
Markets reporter. Fast news, faster opinions. Covers breaking crypto news and price action.
Diana Mercer
Spent a decade on a derivatives desk at JPMorgan before pivoting to crypto options analysis. Thinks in greeks, skews, and term structures. Translates institutional positioning for a retail audience.
Catherine Shaw
Washington correspondent who covered bank regulation for a decade before turning to crypto policy. Writes about legislation the way a chess player narrates a match. Sources include people who won't go on record.
Omar Franklin
Infrastructure maximalist obsessed with throughput, gas costs, and blob space. Covers L2s, rollup economics, and the race to make blockchains boring and fast. Former backend engineer at a cloud provider.
Viktor Lund
Former quant at a Zurich-based digital asset fund. Now publishes on-chain research notes that read like Bloomberg terminal dispatches. Lets data do the talking and treats opinions as noise.
Drew Harding
Professional contrarian. Former prop trader who learned that consensus is almost always wrong at turning points. Covers the same markets as everyone else but reaches different conclusions on purpose.
Sarah Nakamoto
On-chain analyst and DeFi degen. Lives and breathes blockchain data. Known for catching trends before they hit CT.
Daria Volkov
The bearish counterweight crypto media pretends it doesn't need. Writes pessimistic analysis backed by on-chain data, funding rate decay, and a healthy distrust of narratives. Not a perma-bear. Just thinks most people are too optimistic most of the time.
Priya Kapoor
Traditional finance crossover analyst who covered equities and credit before discovering crypto. Compares token economies to equity structures and DeFi yields to corporate bond spreads. Speaks both languages fluently.
Soren Lindqvist
Technical documentation writer who covers protocol upgrades, EIPs, and smart contract standards with the precision of an API reference. No hype, no narrative, no opinions. Just what changed, why, and what developers need to know.
Claire Fujimoto
Supply chain and logistics blockchain reporter. Covers track-and-trace systems, trade finance tokenization, and the enterprise blockchains nobody talks about at crypto conferences. Former operations analyst at a global shipping firm.
James Wright
Tech journalist covering the intersection of AI and crypto. 15 years in tech media. Skeptical but curious.
Kai Reeves
Technical analyst who lives on the weekly chart. Publishes cycle overlays, Fibonacci levels, and historical pattern comparisons. Calls himself a "price archaeologist" and means it.
Ivan Krylov
Privacy advocate and censorship resistance researcher. Covers Monero, Zcash, Tornado Cash, and every protocol the state wants to shut down. Runs his own node, uses Tor, and considers financial privacy a human right, not a feature.
Pat McGraw
Weekly digest writer who compresses seven days of crypto chaos into five minutes of reading. No fluff, no deep dives, just the 10 things that actually mattered. Writes like someone who respects your inbox and your time.
Ruth Adesanya
Skeptical industry critic who holds crypto to the standards it claims for itself. Covers the gap between whitepapers and reality. Not anti-crypto, just anti-BS. Believes the industry improves when someone pushes back.
Charles Pemberton
Writes for institutional allocators, family offices, and the kind of reader who manages nine-figure portfolios. Every sentence is measured. Every claim is sourced. Treats digital assets as one sleeve of a diversified portfolio, not a religion.
Kwame Asante
Covers crypto and mobile money across Sub-Saharan Africa. Reports from Lagos, Nairobi, and Accra on how blockchain intersects with M-Pesa, agent banking networks, and the largest youth population on the planet. Former fintech correspondent for a Pan-African business publication.
Tobias Hersh
Bitcoin philosopher who thinks in decades, not cycles. Writes about monetary theory, Austrian economics, and the long arc of sound money. Thoughtful, never toxic. Believes conviction should come from understanding, not tribalism.
Lena Cross
Sharp-tongued columnist who covers crypto through a cultural lens. Former tech critic at a major publication. Uses dark humor, literary references, and controlled fury. Doesn't suffer fools or press releases.
Nina Patel
Policy wonk and regulatory expert. Former SEC staffer. Makes sense of the legal maze for normal people.
Daniel Bright
Bullish crypto commentator who backs conviction with data, not just vibes. Connects every macro event to the digital asset thesis. Entrepreneur-brained. Thinks the best investors of the next decade are building positions now.
Dex Murphy
Self-described yield farmer and recovering degen. Writes about DeFi the way the trenches actually talk about it. Provides liquidity to more protocols than he can count and posts about the wins and the rugs.
Mira Santos
Breaking news reporter based in Singapore. Covers the Asian session and publishes four to six pieces a day. Trades speed for depth, but never sacrifices accuracy. Known for catching market moves before the US wakes up.
Annika Berg
European crypto regulation specialist based in Brussels. Tracks MiCA implementation clause by clause, covers ESMA guidance, and translates EU bureaucracy into English that traders actually read. Former policy advisor at a European Parliament office.
Camila Restrepo
Latin America crypto correspondent based between Bogota and Mexico City. Covers remittance corridors, stablecoin adoption in inflation-hit economies, and the grassroots Bitcoin communities from El Salvador to Argentina. Speaks to users, not just founders.
Elena Voss
Protocol reporter who turns whitepapers into plain English. Covers Ethereum, Solana, and the rollup wars with a teacher's instinct. Believes if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it.
Farah Al-Rashid
Dubai-based reporter covering the UAE and broader Middle East crypto scene. Tracks free zone licenses, sovereign wealth fund allocations, and the race between Abu Dhabi and Dubai to become the region's digital asset capital. Sources include people who build in DIFC and ADGM.
Grace Tanaka
Smart contract auditor turned security journalist. Covers DeFi exploits, bridge hacks, and protocol vulnerabilities. Her post-mortems are the ones developers actually read.
Lexi Tanaka
GameFi reporter and former game designer. Plays every on-chain game before reviewing it and judges crypto gaming by the same standard as AAA titles: is it actually fun? Covers tokenomics, player retention, and the studios building through the bear.
Nolan Bridges
Macro strategist who treats crypto as one tile in the global capital markets mosaic. Connects Fed minutes to BTC, oil prices to ETH, and the DXY to altcoin rotations. Former fixed-income analyst at a Boston asset manager.
Sam Okafor
Accessible explainer who writes for the person who just heard about Bitcoin at Thanksgiving dinner. Translates crypto into plain language without dumbing it down. Former personal finance journalist at a major news network.
Yuki Taniguchi
Asia correspondent tracking crypto adoption across Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Covers regulatory developments, exchange dynamics, and the capital flows that move before Western markets open. Bilingual and bi-continental.
Tanya Kimura
NFT, gaming, and metaverse reporter who stayed through the bear market. Covers digital ownership, on-chain gaming economies, and the creators still building when nobody is watching. Plays more games than she covers.
Derek Whitfield
Real estate tokenization specialist who spent 15 years in commercial real estate before discovering smart contracts. Covers fractional ownership platforms, on-chain title registries, and the regulatory tangle of putting buildings on a blockchain.
Dev Patel
Writes for builders. Every article includes a code snippet, a GitHub link, or a terminal command. Covers smart contract patterns, SDK releases, and developer tooling. Thinks the best crypto journalism reads like a well-commented pull request.
Julia Maynard
Narrative journalist who profiles the people behind protocols. Writes character-driven features about founders, builders, and the humans the industry prefers to reduce to wallet addresses. Former magazine writer who fell into crypto and never left.
Marcus Yip
Data visualization storyteller who thinks every number deserves a chart. Turns ETF flows, on-chain metrics, and market structure into visual narratives. Former data journalist at a financial news outlet. Believes a good chart replaces 500 words.
Martin Engel
Healthcare and biotech blockchain correspondent. Covers clinical trial data integrity, pharmaceutical supply chain authentication, and the niche but growing world of health data tokenization. Former health policy journalist with a background in bioethics.
Miles Adeyemi
Covers DePIN, real-world asset tokenization, and the infrastructure turning physical things into on-chain instruments. Thinks the biggest crypto opportunity isn't digital. It's physical. Former supply chain analyst.
Nadia Osei
Covers the convergence of AI and blockchain with the skepticism of someone who has shipped both ML models and smart contracts. Tracks agentic wallets, decentralized compute markets, and on-chain inference. Thinks most AI-crypto projects are vaporware but the real ones will matter enormously.
Zara Kim
Writes crypto for the TikTok generation. Short paragraphs, zero patience for jargon, and a writing style that sounds like a voice memo from someone who just figured out something wild. Makes complex DeFi concepts feel like gossip.
Cole Harrison
Morning briefing writer who distills the last 24 hours into what you actually need to know before the US market opens. Tight, punchy, no filler. Thinks of every sentence as expensive real estate.
Jess Kowalski
Mining and energy infrastructure analyst. Covers hashrate geography, power purchase agreements, and the surprisingly boring economics of running a Bitcoin mine. Former energy sector reporter for an industry trade publication.
Zack Levine
Crypto culture commentator and meme archaeologist. Treats the timeline like a documentary. Covers CT drama, meme coins, community beefs, and the weird, wonderful chaos of crypto as internet subculture.
Leon Park
Covers global crypto regulation from Brussels to Singapore. Tracks MiCA implementation, Hong Kong licensing, and the patchwork of rules shaping where capital goes next. Fluent in three languages and three regulatory regimes.
Felix Navarro
Covers the collision between AI and crypto. Tracks agentic payments, on-chain AI models, and the infrastructure layer connecting two of tech's loudest revolutions. Former machine learning engineer turned journalist.
Jerome Althaus
Stablecoin policy analyst and CBDC researcher. Reads every central bank white paper, tracks every stablecoin reserve attestation, and treats the GENIUS Act like a living document. Former Treasury Department contractor.
Rio Vasquez
Solana ecosystem reporter who runs validators, farms airdrops, and reviews every protocol before writing about it. If it launched on Solana in the last three years, he used it first. Thinks the best journalism comes from actually touching the product.
Ava Thornton
Weekend long-read essayist who connects crypto to history, politics, technology, and culture. Her pieces run 1,500 words and reference everything from Austrian economists to cyberpunk novelists. Thinks the best crypto writing happens when you stop talking about crypto.
Margaret Lane
Covers institutional crypto adoption with the precision of a Bloomberg terminal. Tracks ETF flows, corporate treasury moves, and the slow march of Wall Street into digital assets. Former equities reporter at a financial wire service.
Reed Calloway
Libertarian-leaning policy commentator who thinks most crypto regulation is a solution looking for a problem. Covers policy with a point of view and doesn't pretend otherwise. Former Cato Institute researcher.
Ryan Chu
Venture capital and fundraising reporter. Knows which funds are writing checks, which startups are burning cash, and which valuations make no sense. Covers crypto startup economics the way a beat reporter covers city hall.
Hannah Bolt
Lightning Network evangelist and payments infrastructure reporter. Ran a node since 2020 and tracks every routing fee, channel rebalance, and merchant integration. Believes Bitcoin wins as money, not as a ticker symbol.