The desk

Analysts and reporters

Every research note on CryptoxInsights carries a named writer. These are the people behind them, the beats they cover and how they verify what they publish.

Daniel Voss
Senior Research Analyst, Digital Assets & RWA

Daniel leads CryptoxInsights' real-world-asset desk, where he audits reserve statements, custody structures and mining licences behind tokenised commodities. He has spent nine years covering gold-backed issuance and African mining finance, and has reviewed licence filings under Uganda's Mining and Minerals Act 2022.

6 articlesLondon
Anya Korolenko
Lead Editor, Crypto & Emerging Markets

Anya edits CryptoxInsights' research output and sets the publication's verification standards. She previously covered emerging-market commodity finance and now specialises in how mining and energy issuers move physical collateral on-chain.

2 articlesWarsaw
Marcus Feld
Markets Correspondent

Marcus tracks digital-asset market structure, ETF flows and listed crypto equities, with a focus on how spot products reprice the underlying assets.

5 articlesFrankfurt
Priya Nair
Regulation & Policy Reporter

Priya reports on crypto regulation across the US, EU and Asia, reading primary rule texts and consultation papers rather than press summaries.

17 articlesLondon
Tomas Reyes
Exchanges & Infrastructure Editor

Tomas covers exchange operations, custody and settlement infrastructure, and has reported on every major venue failure since 2018.

6 articlesMadrid
Lena Whitfield
Institutional Desk Analyst

Lena analyses institutional allocation into digital assets, including tokenised treasuries, money-market funds and commodity-backed instruments.

7 articlesNew York
Kwame Osei
Africa & Emerging Markets Correspondent

Kwame reports on mining, minerals policy and digital-asset adoption across sub-Saharan Africa. He has covered Uganda's mineral licensing reforms and the Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines since the 2022 Act took effect.

4 articlesKampala
Sofia Marchetti
Stablecoins & Payments Reporter

Sofia covers stablecoin issuance, reserve attestations and cross-border payment rails, with a focus on MiCA and the GENIUS Act.

9 articlesMilan
Hiroshi Tanaka
Security & On-Chain Forensics

Hiroshi investigates exchange breaches, protocol exploits and laundering flows using on-chain forensic tooling.

5 articlesTokyo
Emma Lindqvist
DeFi & Protocols Analyst

Emma follows protocol upgrades, rollup economics and DeFi risk, reading client releases and governance forums directly.

6 articlesStockholm
Rafael Duarte
Latin America Markets Reporter

Rafael covers digital-asset markets and payment adoption across Latin America, reading exchange filings and central bank consultations in the original language.

3 articlesSão Paulo
Yuki Sato
Asia Policy Correspondent

Yuki follows crypto rulemaking in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, with a focus on how licensing regimes reshape venue behaviour.

3 articlesTokyo
Hannah Weiss
Fund Flows Reporter

Hannah tracks exchange-traded product creations and redemptions, and how allocator mandates translate into on-chain positioning.

3 articlesLondon
Oliver Grant
Energy, Compute & Infrastructure Reporter

Oliver reports on mining economics, data-centre power contracts and the overlap between AI compute demand and decentralised infrastructure networks.

3 articlesEdinburgh