Maple booked $21 million of protocol revenue over 12 months and Lido’s staking unit stayed profitable, yet SYRUP and LDO fell this year while HYPE more than tripled.
Alexander Stefanov
Editor-in-Chief
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
Latest articles by Alexander Stefanov
The GENIUS Act guarantees that compliant stablecoins can be redeemed for dollars, but the offshore users who rely on these tokens most may struggle to collect them.
Aave’s Core market doubled its USDe deposit limit after a November 6 risk review, and within two days nearly all the new room sat with five suppliers.
A Bitcoin position bought as a modest 5% slice of a portfolio can swell to about 17% after a fourfold rally, without the investor buying a single extra coin.
Galaxy Research says sovereign funds absorbed what hedge funds sold during Bitcoin's slump, but quarter-by-quarter filings from two of its named holders show both sides buying through December.
Solana is trading near $90 after sellers pushed it through the $92 area into support where its 200-day moving average meets the floor of an October downtrend channel.
A Hyperliquid Strategies subsidiary has applied to become a futures commission merchant for Hyperliquid’s planned permissioned markets, a step toward regulated U.S. access that still needs two separate approvals.
Almost four weeks after XRP Ledger delegation went live, a fix now stops burn-only delegates from overshooting into minting, and the code’s own test shows who carried that risk.
Within a day of winning both chambers, Democrats named the lawmakers expected to run investigations into Trump’s crypto businesses and sketched what they plan to examine first.
Ethereum jumped more than 7% on Wednesday, lifting it from the $2,270s to just beneath the band where its October rebounds kept stalling, with the daily candle still open.
Democrats have won the Senate that blocked crypto’s market structure bill in September, leaving the industry weeks to revive the current text before Democratic negotiators set the terms.
LayerZero’s ZRO has rallied 9% today to press the level it lost in late October, after a wick near $1.42 marked the low of the three-week pullback so far.
