The XRP Ledger quietly shipped one of its most consequential updates in months. Version 3.1.2, released in March 2026, carries no new features - but that's precisely the point.
Alexander Stefanov
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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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HSBC and a Standard Chartered-led joint venture are positioned to be among the first recipients of Hong Kong licences under the city's new stablecoin regulatory framework
The U.S. Senate has drawn a hard line on the digital dollar. With an 89-10 vote, lawmakers passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act - a sweeping bipartisan housing package that buried within its text a significant financial policy decision: a temporary prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency, effective through December 31, 2030.
Metaplanet Inc. announced the launch of Metaplanet Ventures K.K., a wholly-owned subsidiary that will deploy ¥4 billion (approximately $27 million) over the next three years.
The crypto bear market has a habit of separating projects that are actually building from those that were riding price momentum. On Solana, the latest development activity rankings from Santiment tell a clear story: a handful of projects are putting in serious work on GitHub while the broader market sorts itself out.
South Korea's National Tax Service is building one of the more aggressive crypto surveillance systems seen anywhere.
Binance Research's latest cycle analysis covers U.S. midterm election years going back to 1939 for equities and across all three Bitcoin midterm cycles on record.
On March 11, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that formally ends what SEC Chairman Paul Atkins called decades of "regulatory turf wars."
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is drawing a hard line between traditional banking and digital assets. On March 11, 2026, FDIC Chairman Travis Hill announced a proposed rule that would formally exclude payment stablecoins from all federal deposit insurance.
Stani Kulechov, founder of the Aave protocol, is pushing for a structural overhaul of how decentralized autonomous organizations govern themselves - and the timing is no coincidence.
Foundry Digital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG) and operator of the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, announced it will launch an institutional-grade Zcash (ZEC) mining pool in April 2026.
