Crypto Journalistsin the USA

Alex Carchidi treats crypto as a long-term investment class for retail investors, focusing on portfolio construction rather than short-term trading noise. He is a healthcare and cryptocurrency analyst at The Motley Fool whose crypto analysis is carried by Yahoo Finance, with a beat centered on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and AI-driven crypto projects. His coverage of Bitcoin emphasizes cyclical behavior, halving cycles, momentum, and sentiment, and what those mean for allocation, time horizons, and volatility. He explains how protocol design and new use cases in Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and AI-focused tokens can translate into durable investment theses. He writes in a straightforward, explanatory style, giving practical guidance on crypto exposure, dollar-cost averaging, risk management, and market structure. His broader work includes equities and thematic investing in biotech, pharma, cannabis, and digital asset companies, grounded in prior experience as a bench scientist and science writer in biopharma and biomedical research.

Allie Garfinkle covers the people, capital, and technology moving private markets, with crypto treated as part of dealmaking around AI and frontier startups. She is a senior writer and editor at Fortune and edits Term Sheet, its weekday newsletter on venture capital, private equity, and startup funding. Her reporting focuses on new funds, rounds, exits, software, infrastructure, AI, cybersecurity, climate tech, health tech, consumer brands, and private-market risk. She has covered Laravel, insurtech funding, OpenAI, Demis Hassabis and Isomorphic Labs, Nikesh Arora, and the role of AI in climate-tech deals. She also hosts the Term Sheet podcast, contributes to BBC’s Business Matters, co-chairs the Brainstorm conference series, and moderates industry events. Earlier, she covered Amazon, Google, and Meta and helped produce PBS Frontline business documentaries. She explains wider market shifts through individual companies, deals, data, and investor perspectives.

Anastasia Chernikova covers crypto and digital assets as financial and business infrastructure, with equal focus on market structure and the people inside it. She writes for Forbes on crypto markets, digital asset infrastructure, fintech rails and the human impact of 24/7 trading. Her work sits at the intersection of crypto, artificial intelligence and mental health, linking technical trends to leadership and long‑term resilience. She reports on altcoins, DeFi losses, prediction markets, tokenized real estate, institutional adoption and distribution platforms that could accelerate mainstream use. A second strand tracks how AI and automation reshape crypto and financial workflows, from AI agents acting like employees to social trading feeds and stablecoin rails. She runs Vivid Minds, a newsletter publication on resilience and the psychological costs of high‑pressure careers, and draws on extensive founder and investor interviews to build narrative‑driven features.

Anushka Basu covers the points where digital assets, listed companies and policy decisions meet, with crypto markets stories driven by hard numbers rather than hype. She is a crypto markets reporter and staff writer at Stocktwits, and her work on Yahoo Finance centers on Ethereum treasuries, crypto-linked capital raises and how altcoins move against the larger market. She spends repeated time on Bitmine Immersion Technologies and other crypto-treasury names, tracking ETH holdings, staking levels, capital stacks and funding choices to show how companies finance digital asset accumulation. Her beat runs through crypto-linked equities and mining infrastructure, treating index moves, listings, contracts and preferred dividends as catalysts for equity and income investors. Alongside company coverage, she reports on altcoin performance, market cycles, token flows and regulatory risk, translating on-chain and market structure concepts into clear, accessible, technically detailed stories.

Ayanfe Fakunle covers the junction of crypto lawmaking and market structure, turning dense legislation and rulemaking into clear, practical narratives for digital asset markets. She writes on crypto, blockchain, and digital assets for Disruption Banking, with a focus on how policy choices shape exchanges, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and trading behavior. Her beat centers on the CLARITY Act and U.S. crypto policy, MiCA’s impact on European exchanges, South Korean and U.S. platform economics, and SEC moves that reshape market structure. She reports on stablecoin yield negotiations, tokenized equity, and competitive dynamics between major stablecoin projects. Fakunle also covers hacks, hardware wallet flaws, exchange closures, and operational strains to show how technical and governance issues create real financial risk. Her reporting blends policy analysis, market structure coverage, and platform case studies across crypto and fintech outlets including Bybit, Crypto.news, Monitalks, and Reiz Tech.

Ben Weiss covers the pressure points where crypto markets, complex trading products, and political power intersect. He reports on digital assets and prediction markets, with a beat built around derivatives, perpetual futures, market structure, and the CFTC. He currently covers cryptocurrencies and prediction markets, and previously reported on the industry for Fortune and a specialist crypto newsroom, alongside contributions to wider technology, science, and business publications. His work mixes exclusives on new exchanges and regulatory shifts with data-heavy market pieces that lean on options flows, liquidations, open interest, and on-chain activity. He uses scripts, filings, court records, hearings, and academic work to map how derivatives venues, prediction platforms, Trump-linked ventures, and big tech stablecoin projects are funded, governed, and regulated. His features give space to protocol teams, exchange founders, and the engineers behind cryptography, AI, and uncensored systems.

Bobby Allyn is a technology correspondent at NPR who focuses on how emerging crypto platforms and prediction markets intersect with big tech, political power and ordinary people’s money. He covers the business strategies and social impact of Silicon Valley firms, the fast‑moving world of digital assets and the overlap of crypto, artificial intelligence and politics. His reporting often centers on crypto scams and consumer loss, combining narrative case studies with regulatory data and enforcement actions. He has carved out a niche on prediction platforms like Polymarket, using on‑chain analytics, government paperwork and on‑the‑ground checks to test corporate claims. Allyn also reports on big tech experiments with crypto and AI, including Meta’s internal prediction market app plans and Worldcoin’s biometric sign‑up model, consistently tracing how these tools reflect and concentrate power.

Brenda Medina is a bilingual investigative reporter at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. She covers how secrecy and regulation around money, medicine and technology affect institutions and ordinary people. Her work focuses on cancer drug pricing and access, crypto regulation and money laundering risks, offshore finance, corporate deals, environmental harm and press freedom. She has reported on the Cancer Calculus, Coin Laundry, Pandora Papers and Cyprus Confidential investigations. Her stories examine patent strategies, lobbying, shell companies, sanctions, financial enablers and laws that restrict watchdog journalism. She works on cross-border collaborations and individual investigations. She uses leaked records, legal and financial documents, court actions and interviews with patients, doctors, officials, bankers, lawyers, executives and reporters. Before joining ICIJ, she reported on local government, immigration, public corruption, housing and labor for regional newsrooms.

Camila Grigera Naón is a crypto-focused fellow at Fortune who investigates how digital assets, market power, and ethics intersect in finance and politics. She covers concentrated Bitcoin holdings, prediction markets, and stablecoins, using concrete figures, clear chronology, and an investigative lens to track how money and influence move through the crypto ecosystem. Her reporting on Strategy’s record Bitcoin sales examines how corporate treasuries and crypto whales affect concentration risk, liquidity, and market sentiment. She treats prediction markets as regulated crypto-linked speculation, focusing on clashes over compliance, legal constraints, and reputational risk. Her work on Trump family stablecoins and UFC bonuses probes ethics gaps around conflict-of-interest rules. Beyond Fortune, she has reported and hosted a podcast at a crypto publication, and previously worked in newsrooms including BeInCrypto, Clarín, Infobae, and Latino Rebels.

Clem Chambers is a long-standing markets commentator and entrepreneur who treats Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as one trading asset within a wider risk and opportunity landscape. He is a prolific financial columnist with decades of contribution at Forbes and other financial outlets, including specialist trading, business, engineering and technology titles. He covers global markets, stock markets, money and markets, crypto, indices such as the Nasdaq and themes like artificial intelligence. His Bitcoin work focuses on cycle tops, bottoms and inflection points, with chart signals, price history and technical structures used to set specific levels, timelines and clear thresholds. He writes for private investors and retail traders, explaining when he exits and re-enters Bitcoin, linking crypto winters, equity drawdowns, volatility suppression and central bank behaviour in a direct, prescriptive style. He also appears frequently on podcasts and video channels on crypto and investing.

Daniel Kuhn stands out for covering crypto’s financial infrastructure rather than token prices or retail sentiment. He is a journalist and editor at The Block who reports on how crypto technology and markets connect with mainstream finance. His beat includes clearing, custody, settlement, stablecoins, banking, regulation, Ethereum, decentralized finance and trading platforms. He has covered a joint paper by DTCC, Clearstream and Euroclear on digital ledgers and securities settlement, institutional views of Ethereum’s value, and JPMorgan executives’ comparisons between yield-bearing stablecoins and shadow banking. He also appears on The Block’s audio programming, discussing trading venues, policy and DeFi. Before The Block, he worked on opinion and feature content at another major crypto publication. He combines news reporting with deep context, careful structure and editorial oversight, and also edits other reporters’ work.

David Yaffe-Bellany is a technology reporter at The New York Times whose distinct beat is crypto’s intersection with political power, financial regulation and criminal scrutiny. He covers Trump-linked coins, the Clarity Act, prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, Binance, sanctions and the collapse of FTX. He has reported on crypto since 2022, after writing about the food industry and general business news on the business desk. His earlier work chronicled crypto market crashes, criminal cases and Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction. He also writes features for Sunday Business and The New York Times Magazine. His reporting examines who profits from digital assets, how industry lobbyists shape laws and how regulators respond. He combines investigations, data, documents, legal analysis and on-the-ground reporting, including coverage filed from the Bahamas and the United Arab Emirates.

Derek B. Johnson reports on how government decisions about cybersecurity, elections and emerging cryptographic technologies affect real systems and infrastructure. He is a reporter at CyberScoop covering cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. His work focuses on AI security, AI hacking, model safeguards, election administration, voting systems and the networks that support them. He also covers federal privacy policy, quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography, nation-state hacking and telecom security. His election reporting examines mail-in ballot rules, voting technology, voter data programs, election cybersecurity and deepfake-driven threats. His AI reporting explores agentic hacks, distillation attacks, encryption bypasses and legal oversight. He has provided award-winning cybersecurity coverage across the public and private sectors since 2017. He favors reported analysis, drawing on officials, technologists, lawyers and researchers to explain technical systems, policy decisions and institutional risk.

Dominic Basulto stands out for forward-looking crypto coverage built on specific price scenarios and clear timelines. He is a contributing crypto analyst at The Motley Fool. He covers cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and crypto-related companies, with a real beat centered on Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Bittensor, and MemeCore. He writes on bull cases, downside risk, adoption trends, network effects, regulation, reliability, ecosystem development, token design, use case, and investor psychology. His style is direct and thesis-driven, tying price targets to catalysts. He has also worked as a technology and innovation journalist at The Washington Post and Fortune, and he is the founder of Tiger Crypto.

Dr. Guneet Kaur is a numbers-first crypto reporter for Yahoo Finance. She writes at the point where Bitcoin price action, regulatory risk, and institutional positioning meet. Her beat is Bitcoin and the wider digital asset market, with close attention to crash narratives, downside ranges, support levels, the CLARITY Act, Federal Reserve policy, inflation, and macro crosswinds. She often stress-tests zero-price claims with historical drawdowns, on-chain context, and scenario analysis. She also covers tokenized assets and institutional crypto infrastructure, including Avalanche and BlackRock’s BUIDL fund. Before Yahoo Finance, she served as Senior Editor at CCN.com, Head of Learn at Cointelegraph, and a Science Fellow at Exponential Science.

Hakyung Kim explains market puzzles by testing financial behaviour against economic data. She is a markets reporter at the Financial Times and contributes regularly to its Unhedged coverage. Her beat spans equities, bonds, currencies, crypto, credit and macro trends. She covers labour data, GDP, consumer spending, inflation, interest rates, war, index concentration, investor positioning and portfolio strategy. Her reporting examines why markets move against the economic story, how technology stocks reshape major indices, why emerging markets have become more concentrated, and whether bonds or crypto can still diversify risk. She also reports on currency moves and global risk appetite. Kim appears regularly on the Unhedged podcast, where she discusses consumer credit, household balance sheets, growth and cross-asset positioning. She uses data, charts, historical context and clear explanations to connect market moves with changes in the economy, policy and investor expectations.

Hannah Lang covers how digital assets enter U.S. policy, politics and markets. She reports on financial technology and cryptocurrency for Reuters, with a focus on rules, regulators, legislation and money. Her core beat is U.S. crypto policy, including the Clarity Act, SEC guidance, stablecoin rules, agency exemptions and the balance of power between regulators. She also covers crypto lobbying and campaign spending, bitcoin and listed companies that hold it, tokenized stocks, market reactions to Federal Reserve policy and Treasury yields, and quantum computing risks to crypto infrastructure. Before Reuters, she covered bank regulation and the Federal Reserve for American Banker. Her reporting explains legislative detail and regulatory mechanics, follows industry money, and connects crypto markets with broader financial conditions, investor behavior, technology and traditional finance.

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk known for digging into the institutional plumbing behind digital assets. He tracks how cryptocurrency and blockchain move into mainstream finance and large enterprises, covering banks, exchanges, infrastructure providers and corporate projects. His core beat is institutional crypto and enterprise blockchain, from custody, trading and lending desks for professional investors to tokenization and cloud platforms that serve both AI and digital asset workloads. He is closely associated with coverage of crypto exchanges and balance sheets, including a November 2022 FTX scoop that led to the platform’s collapse and major legal consequences. He reports on regulators, bank access and institutional gateways, and produces features, interviews, newsletters and video segments that stress factual detail, balance-sheet data and regulatory filings.

Ivan Wu is a crypto researcher at The Block who anchors fast-moving market narratives in specific metrics like total value locked, shielded supply and market capitalization. He focuses on data-led analysis of digital asset infrastructure and capital flows, linking on-chain indicators with institutional adoption and funding trends. His coverage of Ethereum scaling and privacy-focused cryptocurrencies tracks ecosystem health and liquidity using clear, concrete numbers. He also maps how crypto venture capital is maturing, highlighting structural shifts in deal activity and investor mix through simple, transparent calculations. Before joining The Block in 2024, he worked as a consultant advising financial institutions on blockchains, tokenization, stablecoins and dapps. He now produces long-form digital asset research and outlooks and appears as an expert guest connecting his quantitative work to broader industry developments.

Jack Kubinec covers how crypto markets, institutional finance, and emerging financial technology move into mainstream business and policy for Fortune. His beat includes banks and asset managers adopting Bitcoin and digital assets, crypto infrastructure, exchanges, funding rounds, regulation, market integrity, AI-driven finance, payments, and autonomous financial agents. He has covered Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETFs, Harvard’s changing crypto exposure, Bitcoin’s response to the CLARITY Act, MoonPay’s acquisition of DFlow, Variational’s funding, and World Liberty Financial’s token collapse. He also reports on founders, traders, startups, and consumer companies building blockchain and fintech products. His reporting follows money and market structure, using filings, blockchain data, loan records, and company funding to connect institutional decisions with risks for investors and consumers. He previously reported and hosted podcasts for Blockworks.

Jamie Redman is a long-tenured bitcoin specialist known for sustained, high-volume reporting on the protocol, its data, and the politics around uncensorable money. As News Lead at Bitcoin News, he covers bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets through onchain metrics, open-source infrastructure, decentralized applications, mining, forks, upgrades, and code-level disputes. He tracks hashrate, difficulty, miner revenue, wallet histories, dormant coins, layer-1 activity, and market behavior, linking technical details to economic theory and freedom-tech themes. He also reports on regulation, censorship, financial access, and the limits placed on permissionless value exchange. Redman has covered bitcoin since 2011 and has written professionally since 2010. His work has appeared in Cointelegraph, Let’s Talk Bitcoin, Bitcoinist, and Coingecko, and has been cited by Motherboard Vice. He reports through news, analysis, and features.

Jason Nelson covers cryptocurrency through the lens of regulation, market infrastructure and frontier technology. He is a reporter at Yahoo Finance, focusing on stablecoins, their oversight and their role in the financial system, including detailed work on Tether’s audited financial statements and Circle’s licensing and product expansion. He connects stablecoin coverage to equities and ETFs, explaining how Ark Invest’s stakes in SpaceX and Circle fit into innovation-focused portfolios. Nelson also reports on crypto enforcement and alleged misconduct, walking through fraud charges, complaints and how regulators frame investor protection and transparency. His Yahoo Finance work builds on earlier reporting at Decrypt on DAOs, cybersecurity, policy and decentralized finance, and on his Crypto Insights Journal channel and podcast, making complex topics in Bitcoin, Web3, AI, quantum computing, robotics and other emerging technologies accessible to wider audiences.

Jeff John Roberts stands out for covering crypto as a finance story, not a trend story. He is Finance and Crypto editor at Fortune, where he writes and edits coverage of banking, blockchain, prediction markets, and technology’s effect on finance. A former attorney, he examines regulation, enforcement, lawsuits, corporate governance, market structure, and intellectual property. His beat includes stablecoin issuers, exchanges, banks, investment firms, listed companies, crypto infrastructure, and investor risk. He explains products and markets while challenging hype, scams, memes, and flawed narratives. He also writes profiles and long-form stories about the people and firms shaping crypto, focusing on incentives, character, and systemic impact. His work has appeared in Reuters, the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and The Economist. He is the author of Kings of Crypto and has received national business writing awards.

Jeff Stein covers how cryptocurrency, financial regulation and political power shape the financial system. He reports for NOTUS on stablecoins, crypto bank charters, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency policy and the regulators, lobbyists and political leaders influencing digital money. His work treats crypto as an economic and governance story, with attention to institutional incentives, payment flows and the effects of U.S. power. He previously reported on economic policy and public service investigations, including a multi-part series on the unintended consequences of U.S. sanctions and efforts to reshape the federal workforce. At The Washington Sun, he covers AI regulation, AI safety, technology and international economic and security relationships. He tracks legislative maneuvers, interviews policymakers and former regulators, and uses detailed process reporting and ground-level work to show how decisions affect people, institutions and the broader economy.

Jen Wieczner is a features writer at New York Magazine who investigates how money, power, and reputation collide. She covers Wall Street, business, cryptocurrency, and the ties between crypto, politics, regulation, and traditional banking. Her long-form reporting follows opaque financial schemes, crypto ventures, fraud, market turmoil, and fallen financiers through original documents and interviews with the people involved. She writes about specific bets and the people making them, treating markets as lived experiences rather than abstract events. Her work includes stories on World Liberty Financial, Polymarket, Three Arrows Capital, Coinbase, and Elliott Management, as well as profiles of Steve Cohen, Paul Singer, and Meg Whitman. Before New York, she wrote for Fortune and The Wall Street Journal about finance, health care, and large businesses. She has received awards for business and financial reporting.

Joanna Glasner tracks how money moves through startup and venture markets, with data-driven coverage of funding rounds, sector surges and liquidity events. At Crunchbase News, she covers the intersection of startups and capital, including crypto, blockchain, AI, fintech, cybersecurity, space tech, cleantech, energy, gaming, semiconductors, marine technology and other capital-intensive sectors. Her recurring column, “The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds,” ranks major financings and examines investor priorities, sector mix and links to IPOs, M&A and public markets. She also reports on global funding trends, unicorn formation, exits, valuations and investor sentiment. Her work relies heavily on Crunchbase data and compares deals across regions, stages and multiple quarters or years. Previously, she reported on venture capital for Reuters, PE Hub and Venture Capital Journal, wrote for Wired and freelanced for business and technology publications.

Joe Wilkins covers technology as an already dystopian system, treating AI, infrastructure, platforms, and speculative assets as machinery that concentrates power and reshapes everyday life. He reports for Futurism on money, policy, and governance around emerging technologies, with recurring focus on labor, transit systems, and how ordinary people are exposed to risk in tech-driven markets, including crypto. His beat is the intersection of technology and power, grounded in economics, history, and politics. He writes on AI’s impact on jobs, the national economy’s dependence on an AI bubble, biased medical AI, surveillance technologies, and computing and transit infrastructure. His coverage of hype-driven markets and populist crypto schemes tracks who gains and who loses, with a direct, unsentimental tone that ties abstract systems to unemployment, precarity, and loss of autonomy.

John Tamny uses crypto and money debates to challenge standard views of markets and political power. He is an economics columnist, longtime Forbes contributor and editor of RealClearMarkets. He also works at The Parkview Institute, where he explores trade, money, work and economic progress. His beat covers money, Bitcoin, markets, prediction platforms, monetary policy, tax, trade, technology, energy and regulation. He examines whether money reflects production, whether markets reveal useful information and how policy affects economic freedom, investment and growth. He treats crypto as a test of what money must do and whether new technology improves market signals. He connects local legal disputes over energy and emissions to global effects on production and innovation. His work on artificial intelligence and currency circulation questions technocratic management. He reports through columns and books that separate economic signals from political narratives about currency, debt and risk.

Jose Antonio Lanz is a crypto markets reporter at Yahoo Finance known for stress-testing every Bitcoin and major token rally against hard data. He focuses on whether price surges are durable, weighing headline moves against trading volumes, derivatives positioning, ETF flows, and chart structures. His beat is crypto as a specialist field, built on years covering digital assets, blockchain, Web3, DeFi, NFTs and altcoin ecosystems for crypto-focused outlets. Lanz’s work foregrounds bull traps, fragile rallies and macro shocks, linking Bitcoin moves to geopolitical events, central bank expectations, equity benchmarks and cross-asset correlations. He highlights patterns like rising wedges and bear pennants, maps precise support and resistance levels, and dissects realized profit spikes, stablecoin liquidity shifts and ETF outflows. His bylines also include short video explainers that translate charts, flows and on-chain signals into clear, data-driven takeaways.

Justin Doubleday tracks how federal cybersecurity and oversight decisions become rules, contracts and staffing changes, with a focus on cryptography and emerging technology risks. He is a reporter for Federal News Network covering cybersecurity, homeland security and the intelligence community. His work examines post-quantum cryptography policy, cyber directives, artificial intelligence security, agency automation, critical infrastructure and the effects of budgets and staffing on oversight. He has reported on federal mandates for post-quantum keys and signatures, the costs and timelines of the transition, gaps in cyber enforcement, major homeland security contracts and congressional AI security proposals. He also covers the Do Not Pay tool, disaster-response staffing, Freedom of Information Act backlogs and inspector general funding cuts. His reporting connects policy and procurement decisions to operational security, fraud prevention, public access and government resilience.

Kamina Bashir tracks the catalysts that move liquidity across crypto and related markets. She is a journalist at BeInCrypto and writes for Yahoo Finance on token unlocks, altcoin cycles, market structure, and cross-asset flows. Her coverage follows whales, trading signals, listings, price reactions, regulation, security incidents, infrastructure, and institutional decisions. She has written about Ethereum drawdowns, Spark’s airdrop phases, Bitcoin and gold, oil, the Nasdaq-100, and the S&P 500. Notable pieces include “3 Token Unlocks to Watch in the Second Week of February 2026,” “3 Token Unlocks to Watch in the Fourth Week of July 2025,” and “13.4 Million Altcoins Dead: How SEC Regulation Turned Crypto Into a Graveyard.” She reports in concise, brisk briefs that lead with events and numbers, then explain their effects on sentiment, liquidity, and price.

Kyle Baird treats crypto as part of the wider capital markets, tracking how bitcoin, exchange-traded products and listed companies move together as regulation, liquidity and sentiment shift. He is a reporter and editor at The Block, covering markets, exchange-traded funds and crypto-related equities after earlier roles at DL News, BeInCrypto and Bitcoinist. His core patch is bitcoin-linked investment products and the publicly traded firms tied to them, with a focus on assets under management, percentage moves and index weights. He builds coverage around weekend and off-hours price action, pairing spot and derivatives metrics with brief catalysts. Alongside this he reports on regulation, enforcement and crypto crime, treating fines, sanctions and seizures as market drivers. Editing roles across outlets reinforce a consistent, clipped, metrics-driven style grounded in repeatable indicators and long-view cycle analysis.

Kyle Torpey is a Bitcoin-focused crypto writer at Gizmodo whose work centers on how digital money collides with politics, regulation, markets, and internet infrastructure. He has covered Bitcoin and crypto for more than a decade and has focused on Bitcoin specifically since 2014. Torpey reports on how Bitcoin and crypto money flow through political campaigns, lobbying operations, and regulatory fights, tracking issues like industry spending in elections, Donald Trump’s crypto fortune, public trust in his agenda, and federal debates over stablecoins and identity checks. He also covers the machinery beneath crypto markets, including miners, data centers, AI workloads, Bitcoin ETFs, stablecoin designs, quantum risk, forks, airdrops, and AI systems that hack smart contracts. His reporting on crime and exploits links bots, smart contracts, and darknet markets to real-world victims. Beyond Gizmodo, his Bitcoin research and analysis have appeared in major business and technology publications.

Lane DeGregory is an enterprise reporter at the Tampa Bay Times who covers crypto and other complex subjects through deeply reported stories about ordinary people. Her beat includes digital assets, meme coins, games, public health crises, crime, and neighborhood change. She looks for people living in the shadows and uses their experiences to put a face on news events and current issues. Her narrative features focus on private struggles, quiet triumphs, helpers, and hope. Recent work includes Florida’s first recorded dengue fever death, the demolition of “The Murder House,” and Waddles, a celebrity pig turned video game character and meme coin. She has written for newspapers across the East Coast and the Tampa Bay Times for more than two decades. She won a Pulitzer Prize for a story about a feral child and her adoptive family, and hosts a podcast about reporting and nonfiction storytelling.

Lawrence Delevingne is a Reuters financial enterprise reporter known for sustained coverage of Donald Trump’s family crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. He examines its ownership stakes, token structures, revenue flows, regulation, legal disputes and links to artificial intelligence. His reporting has covered the venture’s takeover of a crypto firm, a major backer tied to Aqua 1, stablecoin market stress, a bank charter application, lawsuits over WLFI tokens and a collaboration involving restricted Chinese AI models. He joined Reuters in 2015 after reporting for CNBC.com and Absolute Return. He also covers global markets, including stocks, bonds, oil, currencies, Big Tech and AI spending. He writes enterprise stories rather than brief market flashes, using corporate documents, court filings, regulatory correspondence and financial disclosures, often with other reporters, to explain how power and money move through finance.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a cybersecurity reporter and editor who connects hacking and surveillance to victims, power, and infrastructure. He works at TechCrunch and in freelance roles, covering hackers, governments, companies, human rights, and digital espionage. His reporting includes crypto breaches, government spyware, surveillance technology, privacy, and the people behind security failures and covert operations. He has written about stolen funds from Polymarket users, a digital security helpline for journalists and activists, the Careto hacking group, Window Snyder, and a defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia. He is also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. He reports through quick incident briefs, profiles, investigations, and long-form features, combining technical detail with political context, independent analysis, company statements, and testimony from victims.

Luis Blanco connects crypto, AI and financial cycles through reporting on bubbles, governance and investor risk. He is lead correspondent for Latin American coverage at BeInCrypto and editor in chief of its Spanish-language edition. His core beat covers digital assets, protocol governance, community votes, treasury proposals and token-holder power. His syndicated work at Yahoo Finance extends to AI valuations, open-source competition, capital intensity and the durability of technology moats. His published work includes coverage of the cancelled Cardano Summit 2026 and billionaire investor Nikhil Kamath’s AI bet. Blanco has produced thousands of articles, including more than 5,000 attributed to him in the Spanish-language edition. He also covers business, finance, culture, lifestyle trends, activism and insurance. He favors timely, fact-rich news that ties technology to market cycles, concrete outcomes and structural risks rather than hype.

Marc Guberti is a Certified Personal Finance Counselor and contributing investing analyst who focuses on individual stocks at the intersection of crypto, cloud infrastructure, and long-term wealth building. He covers publicly traded crypto-related companies rather than tokens, with a focus on former and current miners that offer stock-based exposure. His work on names like Nebius and IREN shows how mining, infrastructure, and cloud capacity translate into volatility, risk-reward, and shareholder outcomes. He also writes about volatile growth stocks at inflection points, weighing fundamentals, valuation, and long-term prospects after sharp drops. Guberti covers big-tech catalysts when major spending or strategy shifts change earnings power. Across finance and investing outlets, he explains products such as annuities, credit cards, and business financing in clear language, grounding stock ideas in practical wealth-building, portfolio construction, and risk management.

Matt Peterson is a senior economics writer at CNBC known for linking policymaking and political power to market consequences. He covers public policy, economics and financial markets, including the Federal Reserve, the White House, interest rates, Treasury yields, credit, asset prices and regulatory reports. He also covers crypto when it intersects with political campaigns, regulation and market risk, such as companies tied to Trump-backed tokens. His reporting uses deep sourcing inside economic institutions and administrations. He explains rate decisions, jobs data and market moves in plain terms, then traces their effects on investors and businesses. He writes for CNBC’s digital platforms and provides television commentary. Before CNBC, he was a senior editor at Barron’s and The Atlantic and chief of staff at Eurasia Group. His work includes reporting on the Trump administration, the Fed and financial markets.

Mehab Qureshi is a senior editor at TheStreet Crypto whose beat is how digital assets behave under pressure, from market shocks and bankruptcies to regulatory fights and retail adoption. He focuses on the collision between crypto and traditional finance, covering tokenized treasuries, stock-market reactions, central-bank decisions and cross‑asset moves in Bitcoin, gold, silver and oil. His reporting tracks volatile markets, liquidations, restructurings, creditor recoveries and security failures as real events for traders, platforms and users. He covers DeFi and platform risk through incidents, exploits and governance fights, often using his own decisions as a case study in risk management. Qureshi also reports on tokenized finance, political spending, institutional infrastructure and real‑world usage, including field reporting, and has contributed to The Defiant, Benzinga, Bloomberg Quint and The Express.

Mija Markovic reports on how cryptocurrency risk, crime and security affect ordinary users and investors, giving her work a case‑file feel grounded in specific incidents. She is a journalist at Yahoo News covering the intersection of digital asset markets, infrastructure failures and consumer protection. Her beat includes crypto crime and scams, with regular reporting on multi‑million‑pound frauds, offenders posing as police officers, and frontline staff such as cashiers intercepting bitcoin scam payments. She details how criminals present themselves, move funds and what happens at conviction and sentencing. Another strand is security breaches and hardware wallet risks, where she traces data leaks at logistics firms and how exposed customer records become physical threats. She also writes on daily crypto market moves and policy friction with banking, linking price action, regulation and access to accounts for crypto businesses.

Miles Klee covers the internet’s stranger corners as systems of hype, grievance, and grift. He is a senior writer at WIRED, where he reports on digital culture for the culture desk. His beat spans crypto economies, generative AI, synthetic media, online subcultures, gender politics, the manosphere, social surveillance, entertainment, theme parks, fandom, and internet fame. He examines how platforms shape behavior, identity, authorship, power, and everyday life. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone and Mel magazine. He is the author of the novel Ivyland and the story collections True False and Double Black Diamond, cowritten with artist Mads Gobbo. He writes reported, narrative-driven pieces that connect platforms and personalities to larger economies of attention, outrage, and speculative profit. He focuses on how hype and technology mask exploitation, risk, and identity.

Molly White is a sharp critic of crypto and the wider tech world. She publishes Citation Needed, an independent newsletter on cryptocurrency, technology, and tech policy. Her beat is how crypto and web3 systems work in practice, with attention to disasters, wrongdoing, regulation, political spending, and the impact on people’s lives. She is best known for Web3 is Going Just Great, which tracks failures, scams, and structural problems in the crypto and web3 space. Her reporting is skeptical, research-driven, and rooted in her work as a software engineer. She writes detailed explainers in a recurring issue format and links technical claims to policy, power, and real-world consequences.

Nikhilesh De is a crypto reporter and editor who tracks how policy, regulation and political power shape digital assets. He is CoinDesk’s managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering lawmakers, regulators and institutions. His “State of Crypto” column follows bills, agency actions and legal cases over time, explaining effects on exchanges, stablecoins, prediction markets, token issuers and market structure. He also reports on enforcement, elections, geopolitics, security and traditional finance’s adoption of crypto. His work examines sanctions, cyber operations, banking, reserves and the political forces behind legislation. De focuses on institutional behavior rather than short-term price moves, showing how hearings, enforcement choices, comment periods and court rulings reshape the industry. He combines news, analysis and enterprise reporting, and contributed to award-winning investigations into the FTX collapse.

Nikos Baxevanis writes about Ethereum protocol security from the inside. He contributes to the Ethereum Foundation Blog and focuses on AI-assisted security research, fuzzing, and property-based testing across the Ethereum stack. His beat is protocol-level security, not markets. He covers consensus clients, networking libraries, cryptographic components, validators, and other core code. He reports through concrete experiments, reproducible failures, and careful human triage of false positives. His work stresses how automated systems uncover and validate vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-34219 in the libp2p gossipsub networking layer. He also writes on testing strategy for blockchain components, from stateless checks for encoding and wrappers to stateful tests for fork choice, finality, replay, reorgs, and epoch boundaries.

Nina Bambysheva is deputy editor at Forbes, leading the masthead’s crypto coverage and focusing on how digital assets, regulation and emerging technologies intersect with mainstream finance. She reports on industry-defining trends, major deals and shifting policy across the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem. Her beat spans cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, blockchain security and broader financial technology. She writes Crypto Confidential, Forbes’ weekly crypto newsletter, and co-edits the Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance list. Her coverage emphasizes regulation, institutional behavior and long-running corporate sagas, including distressed crypto conglomerates and their leaders. She reports on exchanges, lending platforms, custody providers, DeFi protocols, hacks and failures, and new blockchain use cases in finance and enterprise. She also follows emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and fintech, connecting crypto to adjacent digital finance and automation trends.

Olga Kharif is a senior crypto reporter at Bloomberg News who stands out for tracing how digital assets turn political power, regulation, and market structure into financial risk. She covers cryptocurrencies and related technologies, with a focus on Trump-linked ventures, stablecoin legislation, major exchanges, enforcement, and cross-border compliance. Her notable stories include “Trump’s $1.4 Billion Haul Comes Back to Haunt Crypto Industry,” “World Liberty Ties Enriched Trump as Investors Lost,” and “Trump Memecoin Dinner Returns as Democrats Threaten Scrutiny.” She follows token sales, memecoins, investors, insiders, regulators, and government conflicts over crypto assets. She also reports on exchange listings and public offerings. In “Robot Crypto Traders Are the New Flash Boys,” she explains how bots, AI agents, privacy tools, and protocol design can affect liquidity, oversight, and fairness. She translates technical research and legal developments into clear accounts of who profits, who loses, and where risks emerge.

Patrick J. Schena covers crypto for Fortune with a sovereign wealth fund and global capital markets lens, treating digital assets as questions of governance, capital allocation, and social impact rather than market speculation. He is BLR Professor of Practice in the Department of Economics at Tufts University and holds appointments in international business and finance that ground his reporting in institutional practice and policy. His beat spans crypto, AI, sovereign wealth funds, and public wealth vehicles, focusing on how large investors manage innovation, risk, and regulation. He writes on AI and labor displacement, using macroeconomic risk, social justice, and institutional design to examine who owns and benefits from new technologies. He has written extensively on sovereign wealth fund governance standards, infrastructure investment, and accountability, and he consistently links investment decisions to real-world social and economic effects.

Paul Kiernan is an economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal whose distinctive beat examines how financial regulation and crypto markets shape the broader economy. He covers SEC enforcement, digital-asset firms, investors, traditional finance and the political fight over crypto in Congress, including the fallout from FTX and debates over which regulators should oversee cryptocurrencies. He also reports on private funds, hedge funds, market structure, monetary policy and investor risks. He currently covers California’s economy, immigration, labor and housing, including its startup and venture-investment boom. Earlier, he reported on economics, financial regulation and monetary policy. His work has appeared in articles, newsletters and audio journalism. He explains complex rules and policy battles clearly, focusing on how regulators, lawmakers and institutions affect markets and the people who use them.

Paul L. stands out for turning AI models, prediction charts, and analyst calls into specific price targets, timelines, and risk levels. He is a news reporter at Finbold covering cryptocurrency, stocks, finance, and technology. His crypto beat centers on forward-looking XRP and Bitcoin forecasts, including support and resistance zones, probability-based targets, on-chain signals, supply mechanics, and model-driven projections. He also covers Ethereum, Solana, Zcash, and other digital assets. In equities, he reports on large-cap technology stocks, analyst targets, insider selling risks, technical breakdowns, metals, indices, and thematic companies. His work includes macro warnings tied to debt, gold, Bitcoin, and market breadth, plus stories on digital money, space-linked funds, and AI products. He reports by translating technical indicators, machine-learning outputs, prediction markets, and expert views into clear levels, percentage changes, and defined time horizons.

Paul R. La Monica is a senior markets analysis writer at Barron’s whose core focus is stocks and the economy. He covers macro investing trends, stock market cycles, earnings, interest rates, sentiment, and headline stocks. He also examines how artificial intelligence, crypto, tariffs, inflation, wars, and AI spending reshape portfolios. His work links major trades to underlying economic and policy forces, then turns them into clear takeaways for investors. He writes about sectors, funds, ETFs, index moves, sector rotations, and risks building beneath popular trades. His AI coverage treats the theme as an investment question, while his crypto reporting focuses on liquidity, market structure, investor behavior, and recurring boom-and-bust cycles. He previously wrote daily about markets and the economy at CNN Business and has worked for Red Herring, SmartMoney.com, American Banker, and Financial World. He also moderates and joins Barron’s Live discussions with managers, strategists, and economists.

Rosemary Misdary is a health and science reporter at Gothamist whose distinct beat connects climate policy, energy systems and environmental regulation to daily life. She covers grid reliability, renewable energy mandates, utility costs, transmission, data centers and crypto mining as high-energy industries. She also reports on climate leadership, wildlife, contamination, pipelines, recycling, extreme heat, seasonal weather, astronomy and household sustainability, including solar panels and off-grid living. Her notable work includes coverage of Endangered Species Act changes, radiation readings near Buffalo, a river otter’s return to the Bronx River, and local climate and energy laws. She explains technical subjects through scientific data, technical reports, lawsuits, regulatory filings, audits, forecasts, public comments and interviews. Her reporting focuses on how policy and infrastructure affect public health, ecosystems, affordability and everyday choices.

Spencer Woodman investigates how crypto, offshore structures and banks enable crime and hide wealth. He reports for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, focusing on stablecoins, exchanges, money laundering, scams and the limits of law enforcement. He led Coin Laundry, a collaborative investigation that traced crypto wallets tied to criminal activity and mapped illicit funds across the ecosystem. His reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and The Intercept. He has also worked on the Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Cyprus Confidential and FinCEN Files, covering offshore trusts, political donors, sanctions, oligarchs and banking failures. Earlier work examined corporate practices, immigration detention, pretrial detention, capital punishment, voting rights and political influence. He relies on court filings, leaked records, interviews, data and on-chain analysis to expose system-level patterns.

Steve Muchoki stands out for turning fast-changing crypto signals into clear price narratives and explicit upside and downside targets. He is a crypto news analyst at Coinpedia. His beat centers on Bitcoin, major altcoins, crypto-related stocks, market cycles, technical patterns, institutional flows, macro drivers, and sentiment. He covers bull market targets, Q4 rallies, altcoin breakouts, corporate adoption, crypto stocks, regulation, stablecoins, security failures, hacks, AI risks, and blockchain resilience. His notable past publication includes a Finbold article using ChatGPT to project Bitcoin’s price for December 31, 2026. Muchoki connects price levels, chart structures, historical patterns, sentiment metrics, institutional products, partnerships, policy changes, and security events. He uses these factors to explain market direction, identify breakout conditions, frame risks, and show where assets could move next.

Todd Shriber covers the financial edge where crypto, prediction markets, betting, and gaming stocks meet. He is a senior news reporter at Casino.org, focused on gaming financials, casino business, stocks, corporate bonds, and mergers and acquisitions. His broader work includes sector and international ETFs, thematic funds, and derivatives-linked strategies for finance publications and financial services firms. He began as a financial markets reporter at Bloomberg News and later traded sector and international ETFs at a long/short hedge fund. Shriber reports on spot bitcoin ETFs, crypto market structure, onchain trading, sportsbook competition, casino balance sheets, analyst calls, leverage, capital allocation, and funding costs. He also covers regulation, advertising standards, and policy. His news-driven reporting relies on market data, research, surveys, operator commentary, and regulatory documents, with product mechanics and investor impact ahead of hype.

Tomiwabold Olajide follows the engineering and market life of major crypto networks with a technician’s eye, with close, repeated coverage of XRP Ledger and the Ripple ecosystem. He is a Web3 journalist and cryptocurrency analyst who covers cryptocurrencies for U.Today as a research-driven analyst. His beat centers on XRP Ledger engineering, RippleX leadership and senior engineers, quantum readiness, tokenization and agentic workflows, and how security upgrades reshape micropayments and transaction flows. He tracks on-chain metrics, DeFi protocols, stablecoins and broader crypto market structure, treating protocol features and governance changes as drivers of market behavior. His work includes coverage of Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, meme tokens, listings, delistings and adoption milestones. He reports in a straight news and analysis format, grounded in concrete statements and technical detail, informed by prior experience in currency trading, fund management and technical analysis.

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter at Forbes who covers cryptocurrency within a wider business and markets beat, using fast-turn, data-heavy stories that center on clear numbers and market drivers. His core crypto coverage tracks bitcoin across rallies and selloffs, explaining how large holders, leverage, options flows, corporate decisions, policy shocks and security failures translate into sharp price moves and financial risk. He reports on bitcoin price swings, institutional balance sheet exposure, hackers exploiting software flaws and regulatory action on projects like Worldcoin and politically linked tokens, with a focus on precise price, valuation and loss figures. Beyond crypto, he covers earnings-driven stock moves, billionaire net worth shifts, tech, retail, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, private payrolls, geopolitics, autos and sports money. Before joining Forbes in 2022, he reported at USA Today and at university and smaller outlets.

Will Canny is a finance reporter at CoinDesk who covers the intersection of crypto markets and traditional finance with a balance-sheet and trading-floor lens. He focuses on how trading firms, lenders and financial institutions structure deals, funding and market infrastructure, centering company names, deal terms and ownership over token hype. His reporting on crypto market makers and trading firms tracks ownership changes, strategic options, market structure and the plumbing of liquidity. He covers DeFi lenders, stablecoins and institutional deals as parts of a broader financial system, emphasizing contractual relationships, distribution rights and institutional access to on-chain assets. He also reports on leadership moves at crypto infrastructure and protocol companies as corporate strategy stories. An experienced markets reporter with a long financial services and journalism background, he also contributes market data and price movement coverage on cryptocurrency and blockchain markets.

William M. Peaster is a crypto reporter whose primary interest lies in stablecoins, payment rails and the business logic of yield platforms rather than day-to-day token prices. He covers cryptocurrency and digital asset markets for Yahoo Finance, focusing on how stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure are reshaping mainstream payments and corporate deal-making. His Stripe–PayPal reporting treats the bid as a stablecoin and infrastructure play, detailing offer terms, committed financing and account counts to show the scale of payments consolidation. He explains Stripe’s build-out of a stablecoin infrastructure stack around assets like PYUSD and USDC and tooling such as Bridge, and how PayPal’s wallet base could slot into that system. In his EtherFi coverage, he uses the project to interrogate the “casino economy,” asking whether crypto yield platforms can build durable, less speculative models. His work tends toward explanatory features that unpack deal terms, infrastructure and market structure.

Yogita Khatri is a senior reporter at The Block who stands out for tracking how capital flows shape crypto’s structure and cycles, not just who raised what. She authors The Funding newsletter, a regular series on fundraising conditions, valuations and investor behaviour in digital asset markets, with each edition built around a specific question about crypto venture capital and how money is raised and deployed. She combines high-volume daily reporting with longer analyses of deals, fund formation, limited partner expectations and evolving deal structures, plus deep dives on major investing firms and their strategies. She has published around 3,000 articles and covers breaking news, scoops and exclusives across exchanges, protocols, regulatory actions, product launches and market structure. Before The Block, she wrote on crypto and personal finance, experience that informs her focus on incentives, risk and practical implications for capital allocators and users.

Zack Abrams is a data journalist and Weekend Editor at The Block, where he combines real-time crypto news, data analysis and investigative reporting. He covers crypto markets, ETF flows, regulation, legal cases, DeFi security, protocol design and technical roadmaps. He reports from courtrooms, parses court documents and technical details, and uses quantitative data to explain capital flows and market activity. On weekends, he publishes breaking updates, curates the homepage and edits other reporters’ work for clarity and accuracy. Before The Block, he was Head Writer at Coinage. His past work includes a co-reported story on Do Kwon that won a Best in Business Journalism award, an investigation into a major crypto theft, and a deep dive into Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense based on exclusive documents. His writing is direct, structured and sober.