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.
A 25-year-old former government contractor was arrested Wednesday on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from wallets managed on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service - wallets that held assets seized in some of the federal government's highest-profile digital asset cases.
The days of buying almost any altcoin and watching it double during a crypto bull run may be finished. That's the assessment of Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, who argues that the mechanics driving previous altcoin seasons have fundamentally broken down.
The numbers are hard to spin. According to the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report, illicit cryptocurrency transactions reached at least $154 billion in 2025 - a 162% jump from the revised 2024 figure of $57.2 billion.
The first U.S. spot ETF tracking Polkadot's native token launched Thursday, as 21Shares began trading TDOT on the Nasdaq — a regulatory milestone that gives institutional investors direct, regulated exposure to DOT for the first time.
Kazakhstan's National Bank has carved out a portfolio of up to $350 million from its gold and foreign exchange reserves - now totaling $69.4 billion - for investment in cryptocurrency-linked instruments.
In mid-2025, TMTG deployed roughly $2 billion to build what it called a "Bitcoin Treasury," acquiring approximately 11,500 BTC at an average price somewhere between $115,000 and $118,000 per coin.
The U.S. labor market took a sharp and unexpected turn in February, shedding 92,000 nonfarm payroll jobs - a stark reversal from consensus forecasts that had projected gains of 50,000 to 60,000.
Vancouver's experiment with a municipal Bitcoin reserve is effectively over before it began.
Crude oil is surging - and the inflation conversation nobody wanted to revisit is turning up again.
Russian authorities are pushing to overhaul the country's cryptocurrency landscape with a sweeping regulatory framework set to take effect by mid-2026 - one that would lock out foreign platforms and funnel billions in trading activity toward state-supervised domestic exchanges.
The European Central Bank finds itself navigating one of its more uncomfortable policy junctures in recent memory. A surging euro, a Middle East-driven oil spike, and an unpredictable U.S. trade regime have converged in the first weeks of March, leaving policymakers with few clean options.
The US private credit market, long insulated from the volatility that routinely hammers public markets, is now confronting something it has largely avoided since its explosive post-2008 growth: a genuine stress test. And Blue Owl Capital is where that pressure is most visible.
