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
Regulation & Policy
Crypto executives say the Clarity Act could finally stabilize years of shifting US digital asset rules as lawmakers, regulators and industry groups push toward a potential summer breakthrough on market structure legislation. CEO and founder of DonaFi, Joshua Kim, told DeFi Rate: “…It’s not perfect, but it finally feels like the rules might stop shifting […]
May 6, 2026
Crypto
Key takeaways: The line between prediction markets and crypto derivatives is starting to disappear as both converge around continuous trading of price and probability. Polymarket and Kalshi are both introducing perpetual-style mechanics that transform event contracts from fixed, binary bets into continuous, leveraged trading systems that behave more like crypto derivatives venues than traditional forecasting […]
April 30, 2026
Crypto
When tensions between the United States and Iran escalated earlier this month, one of the fastest places to register the shift was not social media or breaking news alerts. Instead, attention shifted to prediction markets. Odds on platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi moved in real time, pricing in the probability of escalation before much of […]
April 28, 2026
Crypto
As negotiations around the Clarity Act quietly move forward, experts say the public debate over stablecoin yield is missing deeper tensions related to “micro-level fragility” and a battle over the future of financial power. Jason Rindahl, CEO of Nebula DeFi told DeFi Rate: “In practical terms, this is about control…the real battle is over who […]
April 14, 2026
Regulation & Policy
Preliminary timelines for when the Clarity Act will finally be signed into law continue to emerge from industry insiders, only to pass without result. Now, experts point to “unresolved turf wars,” control over the rulebook, and optics ahead of midterms as key influencing factors on potential passage. Last Wednesday, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, […]
April 6, 2026