Newsroom
Staff and contributors
Every story on CCSUniversity.org is written by a named journalist. Here is who they are and what they cover.
Maya Orsini
Markets Editor
Maya covers digital asset market structure, ETFs and derivatives. She previously spent eight years on a fixed-income trading desk and edits the newsroom's markets coverage.
Daniel Okafor
Policy Correspondent
Daniel reports on crypto regulation, stablecoin legislation and enforcement actions across the US, EU and Nigeria. He has covered financial rulemaking for a decade.
Hana Lindqvist
Protocol Reporter
Hana writes about Ethereum research, rollups and validator economics, with a background in distributed systems engineering at a European cloud provider.
Victor Reyes
Mining & Energy Reporter
Victor covers bitcoin mining, grid contracts and the energy economics of proof-of-work infrastructure. He previously reported on power markets for a trade publication.
Priya Raghunathan
Asia Markets Correspondent
Priya reports from Singapore on Asian exchange flows, tokenised money-market products and the region's licensing regimes. She trained as an accountant before moving into journalism.
Tomás Beltrán
DeFi & Data Journalist
Tomás builds the newsroom's onchain datasets and writes data-led analysis of lending, perpetuals and stablecoin liquidity. He publishes his queries alongside each story.
Elena Kovač
Security & Investigations
Elena investigates protocol exploits, custody failures and illicit finance. She works with independent security researchers to verify incident timelines before publication.
Marcus Whitfield
Institutions Reporter
Marcus covers banks, custodians and settlement infrastructure entering digital assets. He spent six years in post-trade operations before joining the newsroom.