Marisol Verhoeven

Marisol Verhoeven covers stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets and the plumbing of cross-border payments for Coingsty. Working from Rotterdam, she reports on how digital dollars and euros actually move: which reserves back them, who audits those reserves, and where a redemption can quietly break under stress. Before turning to full-time markets writing, she spent several years in payments operations, and that background shapes her approach: she treats a stablecoin as a claim on something, then goes looking for the something. Her stories lean on primary sources, from attestation reports and on-chain redemption flows to exchange proof-of-reserves and the fine print of licensing regimes across the EU, the UK and Asia. Marisol is deliberate about the line Coingsty draws between data and opinion. When a figure cannot be sourced to a filing, a contract or a verifiable on-chain event, she leaves it out rather than round it up, and she is quick to flag when a widely repeated market-size number is really an estimate stacked on an estimate. She is equally interested in the questions most coverage skips: settlement finality, banking partners, the mechanics of a de-peg and what recovery actually costs holders. Readers come to her work for context they can act on without being sold a narrative, and for a clear read on whether a new regulatory framework tightens or loosens the screws and what that means for the tokens and desks that depend on it. Off the beat, she follows the slow, unglamorous progress of instant payment rails and enjoys explaining why settled in seconds is a harder promise to keep than it sounds.