Ian Allison
Ian Allison connects the worlds of traditional finance and digital assets, focusing on how major institutions adopt cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. His reporting follows the shift from experimentation to live products, tracking tokenized funds, stablecoin payments and enterprise blockchain deals rather than retail trading or hype. He is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, where his work combines business coverage, market structure and investigative sourcing across the crypto industry.
Institutional Crypto And Tokenized Funds
Allison’s core beat is institutional and enterprise adoption of crypto, with a consistent focus on how established financial firms build and deploy blockchain-based products. He covers asset managers, banks and infrastructure providers as they launch tokenized vehicles and custodial services, such as a Baillie Gifford fund that introduces Solana and Ethereum-based tokenized exposure in partnership with Bank of New York Mellon.
His stories typically centre on concrete launches, mandates and partnerships, explaining how on-chain structures sit within existing regulatory, fund administration and custody frameworks.
He treats crypto as part of broader capital markets plumbing, mapping the routes through which pensions, endowments and professional investors access digital assets via regulated structures rather than speculative trading platforms. Headlines and coverage on enterprise blockchain underscore a preference for tangible deployments and commercial rollouts, not proofs of concept.
FTX, Exchange Balance Sheets And Risk
Allison is widely recognized for his scoop on FTX and Alameda Research, where he exposed a balance sheet that revealed concentrated, illiquid holdings backing the trading firm and triggered a crisis of confidence in the exchange. That investigation, published in November 2022, became a pivotal moment in crypto markets and garnered major industry and journalism awards, including Polk and Loeb prizes and recognition from the New York Press Club.
His subsequent work has revisited the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire, documenting how the collapse reshaped industry attitudes to risk, transparency and the reliability of exchange-provided information. Across this strand of coverage, he focuses on hard data, financial statements and sourced documents, using them to test the claims of exchanges and trading firms rather than repeating marketing narratives.
This investigative approach extends to other platforms, where he highlights governance, leverage and balance-sheet exposures that matter to institutional counterparties.
Enterprise Blockchain, Payments And Market Infrastructure
Before joining CoinDesk, Allison reported on fintech for International Business Times and Newsweek online, building a background in payments, digital banking and financial technology that now informs his crypto coverage.
At CoinDesk, he applies that lens to enterprise blockchain and payments infrastructure, including stories on networks like Visa Direct enabling USDC and other dollar-backed stablecoins for real-world transactions. He follows how banks, payment processors and technology firms integrate stablecoins and tokenized assets into existing rails, often focusing on settlement, compliance and treasury management rather than consumer speculation. His archive includes coverage of companies like Kraken as they restructure and shed hundreds of jobs ahead of a planned initial public offering, showing an interest in how crypto-native firms prepare to engage public markets and mainstream investors.
This mix of fintech roots and business reporting produces stories that treat exchanges, custodians and infrastructure providers as operating companies with revenue, costs and strategic tradeoffs, not just price charts.
Recognition And Standing In Crypto Journalism
Allison’s work has earned sustained recognition within business and financial journalism.
He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017 and was runner up the following year, reflecting the strength of his reporting on data-driven finance and technology. His coverage has also brought an honourable mention for CoinDesk in the SABEW Best in Business awards, underlining the outlet’s role in serious financial reporting on digital assets. The FTX investigation and its aftermath have further cemented his position, with the scoop winning a Polk award, a Loeb award and New York Press Club honours for its impact and rigor.
Across these strands, his reputation rests on careful sourcing, attention to institutional detail and a willingness to test the claims of major market participants against hard numbers and documents.
4 more crypto journalists.
Alex Dovbnya
Alex Dovbnya is a staff writer at U.Today who covers the pressure points where crypto markets, regulation and security risk meet, with a focus on institutional fund flows and major infrastructure failures. He writes as both a trader and journalist, producing clear, data-led stories that track how digital assets move, break and get governed. Under the byline Alex Dovbnya and the alias AlexMorris, he has authored more than a thousand pieces for U.Today, CryptoComes and other fintech outlets. His work centers on XRP ETFs and institutional capital flows, crypto legislation and U.S. policy fights, large-scale security breaches and infrastructure risk, and market sentiment in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Across these strands he relies on precise on-chain, ETF and sentiment metrics, treating regulation, hacks and macro commentary as market catalysts rather than occasions for personality-driven coverage.
Alex McMurray
Alex McMurray is a technology and fintech journalist at eFinancialCareers who focuses on the people behind change in finance. He covers crypto leadership, digital asset firms, AI teams, software development, quantitative investing, high frequency trading and technology hiring. His reporting links job titles, skills, reporting lines and compensation to wider shifts in business models and organisational strategy. He has written about JPMorgan’s crypto lab, senior moves between banks and crypto firms, HSBC’s shift from operations to technology, fintech hiring, engineering and quant careers, diversity programmes, university routes into fintech, and banking executives who build startups. He also covers Python and C++ in trading, machine learning specialists and unconventional pay structures. Writing for eFinancialCareers since 2022 and in his current role since 2024, he produces short and long-form stories for specialist audiences, driven by exclusive information, confidential tips and career-focused angles.
Andrew Hayward
Andrew Hayward links crypto markets reporting with Web3 culture and gaming, using two decades in the tech and games press to give his beat a clear business-first lens. He most recently served as managing editor at Decrypt, after earlier roles there as culture editor, hub operations lead, and senior writer, and he now pursues new editorial leadership and content management roles while remaining open to freelance work. His coverage spans news, features, educational explainers, and interviews on crypto, NFTs, AI, gaming, and broader tech trends. He focuses on how listed firms and miners manage Bitcoin treasuries, balance sheets, refinancing, and risk, and how crypto tools and tokens show up in everyday gaming and digital life. He also reviews laptops and hardware for Tom’s Guide and has written on games and technology for more than 100 publications since 2006.
André Beganski
André Beganski covers the business side of cryptocurrency, focusing on how digital asset markets connect to traditional finance, regulation, and tax policy. He is a journalist at Decrypt. His core beat is how professional investors and major financial institutions interpret and move crypto markets. He writes often about Bitcoin and other major tokens, price cycles, analyst calls, and institutional sentiment. His work ties market moves to decisions made by banks, exchanges, and lawmakers, with attention to liquidity, trading costs, and structural pressures. He reports on U.S. legislative efforts that would reshape how digital assets are taxed and reported, and on policy debates as material market factors. He also writes across the wider crypto and blockchain landscape, including altcoins, Ethereum, NFTs, platforms such as Coinbase and FTX, and the legal regimes that govern them.