Focus Areas
Crypto
Journalism
Fintech
Journalism
Background
Iliana has been covering the crypto and fintech industry since the NFT boom in 2021. Throughout her career, Iliana reported on key crypto events, including Ethereum’s Merge, the FTX scandal, and regulatory developments. Before joining Defi Rate in 2026, she wrote for a number of publications in the crypto space, with bylines at CryptoNews, Techopedia, and Capital.com.
Iliana holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism from City St. George’s, University of London, and a Master’s in Communication from Gothenburg University.
When she’s not working, Iliana enjoys taking photos and experimenting with crochet projects, although she does tend to spend a lot of her free time on crypto Twitter looking for scoops.
Experience
2021
Recent Articles
Crypto
The House Ways and Means Committee held its first digital asset tax hearing in years, debating seven Republican-led bills on crypto taxation, but the session revealed as many fault lines as it did solutions.
June 10, 2026
Crypto
Cycles raised $6.4 million to build privacy-preserving clearing infrastructure for crypto markets, built on the case that stablecoins alone can't solve the industry's liquidity problem.
June 4, 2026
Crypto
The CFTC's approval of Bitcoin perps on Kalshi opens US traders to crypto's dominant instrument. Former agency counsel Peter Sanchez Guarda says the legal theory behind it has never been tested.
June 3, 2026
Crypto
The CFTC’s approval of the first U.S.-listed perpetual futures contract on Friday is already reverberating across crypto markets, with Hyperliquid-linked assets rallying as traders increasingly view the decentralized exchange as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the regulatory milestone. The CFTC approval that brings the first US-regulated Bitcoin perps to Kalshi comes as traditional financial […]
June 1, 2026
Industry
Prediction markets are no longer viewed simply as speculative trading venues. Over the past year, platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi have evolved into real-time sentiment engines, prompting growing debate over whether they can aggregate information more effectively than traditional media, polling, or social platforms. Now, a new wave of developers is attempting to push […]
May 26, 2026