Our journalists

Ruth Caldwell

Executive Editor / London, United Kingdom

Ruth runs the DC10AUDIO newsroom and sets its standards for sourcing, corrections and disclosure. She spent fourteen years editing financial coverage at wire and trade newsrooms before joining DC10AUDIO, and still edits the desk's most sensitive investigations line by line.

Covers: Editorial standards · Market structure · Investigations

Marisol Vega

Markets Editor / New York, United States

Marisol covers digital-asset markets, exchange-traded fund flows and exchange structure. She spent nine years on a fixed-income desk before turning to reporting, and reads issuer filings so readers do not have to.

Covers: ETF flows · Derivatives · Exchange structure

• Spot crypto ETF flows turn positive after a six-week drought
• On-chain lending markets quietly tighten risk parameters
• Volatility compresses as options open interest clusters near round strikes
• Koinly review: the crypto tax tool that does the boring part properly

Daniel Hsu

Senior Markets Reporter / Singapore

Daniel reports on Asian trading hours, market makers and the plumbing that moves liquidity between venues. He previously covered FX and commodities from Hong Kong and Singapore.

Covers: Asia trading · Market making · Liquidity

• The 5 best Pi Network alternatives in 2026, tested
• Asia-hours liquidity thins as market makers consolidate desks
• Index providers tighten eligibility rules for digital-asset benchmarks

Emeka Okafor

Policy Correspondent / Washington, D.C., United States

Emeka reports on financial regulation and legislation from Washington, with a focus on digital-asset rulemaking, congressional markups and agency guidance. He reads the docket in full and quotes it precisely.

Covers: US regulation · Legislation · Agency rulemaking

• Treasury opens a 60-day comment window on digital-asset broker rules
• Stablecoin settlement outpaces card rails in two remittance corridors
• Senate committee advances a market-structure bill after a marathon markup
• EU supervisors publish the first MiCA enforcement statistics

Amara Bello

Enforcement & Courts Reporter / Chicago, United States

Amara covers litigation, enforcement actions and bankruptcy proceedings involving digital-asset firms. She works from primary court filings and attends hearings in person where she can.

Covers: Litigation · Enforcement · Bankruptcy

• Appeals court narrows agency authority over secondary token sales

Johanna Lindqvist

Infrastructure Reporter / Stockholm, Sweden

Johanna covers mining, energy markets and the physical infrastructure behind public blockchains. She has toured more than forty data centres across the Nordics, Texas and the Gulf.

Covers: Mining · Energy markets · Data centres

• Hashrate keeps migrating toward curtailment-friendly grids
• Trezor Safe 5 review: open source finally gets a touchscreen
• Interconnection queues lengthen for large flexible loads
• Mining heat-reuse projects move from pilot to procurement

Lars Mikkelsen

Energy & Mining Reporter / Austin, United States

Lars reports on grid interconnection, demand response and the industrial economics of proof of work. He previously covered utilities and wholesale power markets in ERCOT and the Midwest.

Covers: Grid policy · Demand response · Hashprice

• Hashprice slips to a multi-year low as difficulty grinds higher
• Public miners shift capital spending toward owned substations

Priya Raman

DeFi & Protocols Reporter / Bengaluru, India

Priya covers decentralised finance, protocol governance and on-chain risk. A former smart-contract auditor, she reads the diff before she reads the announcement.

Covers: Protocol governance · Smart-contract risk · Liquidity design

• Capygram review: the social network that finally makes token mining make sense
• Ledger Nano X review: still the easiest hardware wallet to live with
• MetaMask review: indispensable, and still asking too much of its users
• Restaking protocols face their first real slashing test

Tomás Ferreira

Payments & Stablecoins Correspondent / São Paulo, Brazil

Tomás reports on stablecoins, cross-border settlement and the banks and processors that connect them to local currency. He covers Latin American corridors from the ground.

Covers: Stablecoins · Cross-border payments · Latin America

• Stablecoin issuers move reserve attestations to a shorter cycle
• Banks pilot tokenised deposits as stablecoin competition intensifies
• Euro stablecoin supply grows from a small base as venues add pairs
• Payment processors add on-chain refund and dispute tooling