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Digital assets desk · Est. 2026

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Every story carries a named byline. These are the people who report and edit them.

  • Portrait of Amara Nwosu

    Amara Nwosu

    Global desk correspondent

    Amara covers digital-asset adoption and central bank policy outside the United States, reporting from Lagos, London and Singapore. She previously covered emerging-market currencies.

    Expertise: Emerging markets, CBDCs, cross-border payments

    amara.nwosu@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Dana Whitfield

    Dana Whitfield

    Markets correspondent

    Dana has covered exchange-traded products and market structure for nine years, first on a fixed-income desk and since 2021 for digital asset markets. She reports on fund flows, custody and the plumbing behind crypto pricing.

    Expertise: ETFs and fund flows, market microstructure, custody

    dana.whitfield@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Elena Vasquez

    Elena Vasquez

    Senior markets editor

    Elena edits the markets desk and writes a weekly column on liquidity and derivatives. She spent eleven years on an equities trading floor before turning to journalism and still reads order books for fun.

    Expertise: Derivatives, liquidity, exchange listings

    elena.vasquez@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Jonah Reinhardt

    Jonah Reinhardt

    Investigations reporter

    Jonah investigates fraud, treasury mismanagement and offshore structures in digital assets. His filings-driven reporting has traced funds across four jurisdictions.

    Expertise: Enforcement actions, corporate filings, forensic onchain analysis

    jonah.reinhardt@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Marcus Oyelaran

    Marcus Oyelaran

    Policy and regulation reporter

    Marcus reports on financial regulators and Congress. He previously covered banking supervision for a trade publication and reads charter applications so readers do not have to.

    Expertise: Bank charters, securities rulemaking, congressional process

    marcus.oyelaran@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Priya Ramanathan

    Priya Ramanathan

    DeFi and yield reporter

    Priya writes about onchain credit, staking economics and stablecoins. She trained as an economist and spends most of her week reading governance forums and validator dashboards.

    Expertise: Staking economics, stablecoins, onchain lending

    priya.ramanathan@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Ruth Kaneko

    Ruth Kaneko

    Technology correspondent

    Ruth reports on cryptography research, zero-knowledge systems and the infrastructure that keeps networks online. She holds a masters in applied mathematics.

    Expertise: Zero-knowledge proofs, cryptography, node infrastructure

    ruth.kaneko@coastalledger.org

  • Portrait of Tomas Bergh

    Tomas Bergh

    Protocols and infrastructure reporter

    Tomas covers client software, upgrade schedules and the engineers who ship them. He was a backend developer before moving into journalism in 2020.

    Expertise: Consensus clients, network upgrades, scaling research

    tomas.bergh@coastalledger.org