After months of stalled negotiations, Washington's long-awaited stablecoin legislation has a working compromise.
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
Something is quietly breaking in Bitcoin's mining sector, and most retail investors aren't watching closely enough.
The FBI's New York Field Office issued a high-priority warning on March 19, 2026, alerting cryptocurrency users to a coordinated phishing campaign exploiting the Tron (TRC-20) blockchain.
The debate over whether digital assets belong in mainstream finance is effectively over. What started as a fringe experiment - Bitcoin wallets, crypto exchanges, speculative altcoin bets - has quietly matured into a structural shift in how the world's largest financial institutions think about payments, treasury management, and asset distribution.
Ethereum is flashing a familiar warning sign. The same technical setup that preceded a 40% collapse last November is back - and traders are watching $2,000 like a hawk.
The FTX Recovery Trust confirmed on March 18, 2026, that its fourth major creditor distribution - roughly $2.2 billion - will begin on March 31.
The Bank of Korea's second phase of Project Hangang is no longer a controlled experiment. Launched in March 2026, the expanded pilot now includes nine commercial banks - Kyongnam Bank and iM Bank joining the original seven - operating a system where the central bank issues wholesale CBDC to lenders, which then distribute deposit tokens directly to consumers.
Kraken's long-anticipated public debut is on hold. The crypto exchange, valued at $20 billion after a November 2025 funding round, has quietly shelved its plans to list on public markets - at least for now.
The machinery of American capital markets shifted on March 18, 2026. The SEC formally approved Nasdaq's proposal to allow securities to be traded and settled in tokenized form - a regulatory green light that opens the door to blockchain settlement inside the world's most scrutinized national market system.
Morgan Stanley filed its second amendment to an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on March 18, 2026 - a move that marks a decisive shift for the bank from merely distributing third-party crypto products to becoming a direct issuer in its own right.
The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday, confirming what markets had already priced in but were hoping to avoid: no relief in sight for risk assets.
Bitcoin is trading at $71,350, off 3.42% in the past 24 hours with its market cap sitting at $1.43 trillion with $42 billion in daily volume - numbers that reflect a market in compression, not collapse, but one that is visibly struggling to find direction.
