Goldman Sachs has emerged as the dominant institutional player in the nascent spot XRP ETF market, holding roughly $153.8 million in exposure as of its Q4 2025 13F filing - a position that dwarfs every other disclosed institution in the space.
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 financial system wasn't built for machines. That's becoming a problem. As autonomous AI agents move from experimental tools to active economic participants, a structural mismatch is emerging: the infrastructure powering global finance - correspondent banking, card networks, ACH transfers - operates on timelines and fee structures designed for humans.
The United Arab Emirates has crossed a threshold that most financial markets are still debating. Blockchain is no longer a pilot project sitting in a bank's innovation lab. It's live infrastructure, and it's generating revenue.
Societe Generale-FORGE, the digital asset arm of French banking giant Societe Generale, has deployed its EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) stablecoin on the Stellar network - the latest move in a multichain push that now spans four major blockchains.
Trust Wallet has rolled out an AI-driven Security Scanner across its mobile app and browser extension, a direct response to a damaging supply chain attack in December 2025 that drained roughly $8.5 million from more than 2,500 user wallets.
The past few weeks handed crypto markets a blunt reality check. Bitcoin shed significant ground, leverage got flushed out of the system, and yet the on-chain picture tells a story that contradicts the panic.
Beijing didn't make headlines when it quietly crossed a threshold that took years to reach. But the numbers behind China's new 96-core blockchain acceleration chip are hard to dismiss.
TRON DAO has formalized its entry into the emerging agentic AI ecosystem, announcing it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Gold Member - a move that places the blockchain network inside one of the more consequential governance structures forming around autonomous AI development.
South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit issued a preliminary sanctions notice against Bithumb on March 9, 2026, proposing a six-month partial business suspension alongside financial penalties that could reach 50 billion won - roughly $36.5 million.
A cybersecurity firm has laid out the mechanics of a North Korean hacking campaign that quietly tunneled through the infrastructure of cryptocurrency exchanges and staking platforms - and the entry point was a front-end web vulnerability most defenders weren't watching.
The last few months have been ugly for crypto fundraising. Capital raised across the industry cratered 62% in the most recent three-month window, deals fell 38%, and the average check size nearly halved to $21.89 million.
Coinbase has rolled out crypto futures trading for users across 26 European countries, expanding its derivatives offering as the exchange pushes to build a broader multi-asset trading platform.
