Monero led major cryptocurrencies as volume jumped 255%, but one trading pair carried most activity and THORChain’s anticipated native-XMR route remains delayed, leaving traders to judge whether momentum can last.
Kosta Gushterov
Journalist
Kosta has reported on cryptocurrency markets and blockchain infrastructure since 2020, bringing over six years of hands-on experience in the crypto industry built through daily tracking of markets, trends, and emerging blockchain developments. Specializing in Bitcoin on-chain analysis, institutional ETF flows, and digital asset price action, his work at Coindoo has been cited by other news agencies and consistently covers market developments with a focus on data-driven reporting across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. Over the years, Kosta has contributed to multiple crypto media outlets in different regions, authoring over 6,000 articles across the sector. His reporting spans cryptocurrency markets and the broader fintech industry, tracking not only price action but also the technological and regulatory forces shaping the ecosystem. To support his analysis, Kosta actively leverages on-chain data and metrics from leading platforms such as Santiment, Glassnode, and CryptoQuant, enabling deeper, evidence-based market insights. He believes in the power of transparency and the data that underpins the blockchain ecosystem. His academic background in Marketing Management from Denmark further complements his analytical approach, adding a strong understanding of communication strategy and content positioning to his work.
Latest articles by Kosta Gushterov
Cronos stopped block production after an estimated $75 million Tectonic exploit, trapping most suspected proceeds on-chain while unrelated users could no longer settle transactions across the network.
Michael Saylor has revived Strategy’s Bitcoin tracker after a run of sales, hinting that the company may be ready to add to its reserve again.
HNT more than doubled before retreating to $0.633 after Helium detailed a Texas deployment that could offer a repeatable model for expanding cellular coverage elsewhere.
Attackers converted about $5.7 million in assets taken from six Cosmos EVM networks after a reported vulnerability was misclassified and patched without an urgent warning.
Tokenized stocks generated nearly $30 billion in monthly onchain transfers while distributed value barely grew, leaving one central question: how much reflected actual investor trading?
Bitcoin’s latest push toward $80,000 is meeting two on-chain warnings, but neither rising Binance reserves nor a higher STH-SOPR proves that a sell-off has begun.
Ripple’s April roadmap is back in view as Bitcoin and Ethereum advance quantum-security work, but XRPL’s real challenge begins after an account rotates its key.
With 70 minutes left, Solana’s faster-disinflation proposal was losing. A late reversal and delegator overrides pushed it across the line by just 0.334 percentage points.
The ECB will launch Pontes in September to settle tokenized transactions in central-bank money, and Isabel Schnabel wants programmable reserves across Europe’s wholesale financial markets.
Bitcoin slipped below $79,000 while Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered an inflation-focused speech, as gold declined and major US stock indexes moved only slightly.
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP are consolidating after August's sharp rally as investors await Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech and its potential impact on Treasury yields.
