James Hunt
James Hunt is a deputy managing editor at The Block and writer of its The Daily newsletter, covering crypto markets and industry developments for a global audience every weekday. His work sits at the junction of institutional finance, regulation and market structure, with a recurring focus on how large institutions, corporate treasuries and new trading products reshape the crypto landscape. He brings a long view to this beat, having joined The Block in 2022 after four years as a freelance writer in the crypto industry and a decade in advertising.
Institutional bitcoin and corporate treasury coverage
Hunt devotes substantial attention to institutional exposure to bitcoin and other digital assets, often using company filings and research to map how major financial players move into the market. His coverage of the bitcoin treasury firm Strategy tracks share sales, cash reserves and bitcoin holdings in detail, showing how its balance sheet decisions feed into broader market sentiment. He follows indirect institutional exposure as well, including stories on Norway’s sovereign wealth fund reaching record levels of bitcoin-linked holdings through public equities, and analyst commentary on what that means for the asset’s adoption path.
He also covers asset managers and banks as they build out crypto services, with articles on Citi’s plans to roll out bitcoin custody under its new Custody+ platform and on legacy managers launching actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETFs. These pieces emphasise infrastructure and risk frameworks rather than retail trading hype, underscoring Hunt’s focus on how traditional finance adapts to crypto. Within markets coverage, he reports on trading activity and liquidity with specificity, such as noting when perpetual futures volumes sink to multi-year lows or when large, long-dormant bitcoin wallets move hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of coins.
Regulation, policy and tax treatment of crypto
Regulatory developments and policy debates run through Hunt’s reporting and newsletter work. He covers lawmakers pressing banks over access to crypto services ahead of new regulatory regimes, capturing both the political pressure and the practical consequences for market participants. In his newsletter threads, he highlights moves such as a renewed White House push for the Clarity Act to create a federal framework for crypto, and U.S. Senate resolutions on issues like clemency for high-profile industry figures.
Tax and legal treatment of crypto instruments also feature prominently. Hunt has drawn attention to the UK tax authority’s decision to treat certain crypto lending and liquidity pool transactions as “no gain, no loss,” explaining how this defers capital gains tax until an economic disposal of the underlying assets. He reports on Japan’s legislative amendments classifying cryptocurrencies as financial products akin to stocks and bonds, placing the changes in the context of broader regulatory alignment.
Across these stories, he consistently ties policy shifts back to tangible impacts on lending, market access and product design.
AI, tokenization and trading infrastructure
Hunt’s coverage extends beyond spot and derivatives markets into the next generation of crypto infrastructure, particularly AI-driven agents and tokenization. He has reported on analyses from figures such as Bitwise’s CIO, exploring scenarios where AI agents interacting with tokenized markets drive a 10–100x increase in blockchain transaction volumes. In markets and ecosystems pieces, he tracks how blockchain firms and traditional financial groups experiment with tokenized stocks, new perpetual products and agentic trading strategies, including Robinhood’s expansion of crypto trading and the launch of Robinhood Chain alongside 24/7 tokenized equities and lighter perpetual contracts.
His stories on data center operators and mining-related firms, such as coverage of Riot’s revenue mix and a reported multibillion-dollar AI-related deal, situate crypto infrastructure within a broader compute and AI investment cycle. This thread continues in interviews he edits, like a feature on Avalanche’s ecosystem leadership discussing why subdued token prices can coexist with rising opportunities in crypto infrastructure and applications.
These pieces show Hunt’s interest in how technical capacity, AI workloads and onchain finance converge.
Newsletter wraps and regional recaps
Beyond standard news articles, Hunt is the writer of The Daily newsletter, a wrap format that pulls together key stories across markets, regulation and institutional developments each week. His newsletter threads feature items such as major bank forecasts for bitcoin reaching high six-figure prices, new spot ETF filings for assets like XRP, and corporate rebrands by prominent bitcoin-holding firms, presented as concise snapshots of what matters rather than long commentary. He regularly surfaces data points like large whale movements, futures flows and ETF performance to give readers a quick read on positioning across the ecosystem.
Hunt also produces region-focused recaps, including Asia and EMEA roundups that highlight developments such as Japan-based onchain financial markets, European digital euro pilots and enforcement actions by agencies sanctioning crypto wallets tied to sanctioned jurisdictions. These digests maintain the same emphasis as his daily newsletter: institutional moves, regulatory decisions and structural changes that could reshape how crypto markets function. Through this blend of reported stories, edited interviews and curated newsletters, Hunt’s work offers a consistent, data-heavy view of crypto as a maturing financial system rather than a series of isolated speculative events.
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Alex Dovbnya
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Alex McMurray
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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.