Payward plans to give approved U.S. clients access to regulated perpetual-futures markets running on Hyperliquid, combining public-blockchain execution with identity checks and CFTC-regulated clearing.
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
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Solana’s sharp recovery has compressed into a declining range, creating a bull-flag setup whose credibility now depends on $98 support and a clean move through $110.
U.S. inflation met headline forecasts in August, but a faster core reading clouds the Federal Reserve outlook following Thursday’s firmer producer-price report and shifts crypto’s focus to rate expectations.
Crypto wealth can be visible onchain and still fail a traditional source-of-wealth review because transaction history does not automatically prove who originally controlled the money.
Solana is gaining ground in tokenized assets and automated payments, but its tokenized-stock trading and validator infrastructure remain concentrated among a small number of providers and locations.
After a year of delays, the most closely watched crypto bill in Washington is one vote away from stalling until 2027.
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