SEPA unified European payments, but the infrastructure underneath it has not fundamentally changed in decades - and a new class of digital assets is exposing exactly how much ground public payment systems have lost on speed and programmability.
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
A 10-year asset class comparison published by Fidelity Digital Assets lays out what crypto advocates have argued for years and what traditional allocators have spent years dismissing: Bitcoin was not just the best-performing asset of the past decade, it was not close.
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has closed its acquisition of Bitnomial, a Chicago-based crypto derivatives exchange, for up to $550 million in a mix of cash and equity.
Santiment's top-10 DeFi projects by development activity shows ChainLink with a score of 211.53, more than double second place DeepBook at 104.23. Seven of ten projects show rising development activity month over month. The sector is not in maintenance mode.
Four years after shutting down its Novi crypto wallet and offloading the Diem project for $182 million, Meta is making another move into digital asset payments.
Five cryptocurrencies posted double-digit weekly gains as broader market sentiment improved following lower-than-expected U.S. inflation data in late March and reduced regulatory uncertainty across key jurisdictions.
Recently, the total value of stablecoins circulating across public blockchains crossed $325 billion - a number that, stripped of context, means little.
Stable (STABLE) has climbed more than 25% over the past seven days, settling around $0.033-$0.034 with a market capitalization of $734 million as of April 24, 2026.
When federal legislators passed the GENIUS Act in July 2025, they handed Wall Street's largest institutions a blueprint for extracting revenue from a crypto market that had spent years operating outside their reach. Morgan Stanley did not wait long to act on it.
Cardano has spent years being dismissed as an academic exercise - long on research, short on results.
Most of the attention this month has gone to Bitcoin. Meanwhile, three altcoins are quietly going through real developments - upgrades, institutional integrations, and liquidity unlocks that have nothing to do with market sentiment.
For years, stablecoins occupied an awkward middle ground in financial debates - too small for central banks to treat seriously, too large for regulators to ignore comfortably.
