James Okafor

James Okafor is the founding Editor-in-Chief of TheWeal, where he sets editorial standards across crypto news, live-market data and the publication's price-prediction work. He has reported on financial markets since 2009, beginning on the equities desk before moving full-time into digital assets in 2016 as institutional money first entered the space. James has overseen coverage of every major market cycle since — from the 2017 retail mania and the 2018 winter through DeFi summer, the 2021 highs and the deleveraging that followed. His editorial philosophy is unfashionably simple: explain what is actually happening, show the reader the data behind it, and never dress up a guess as a fact. Based in London, he is responsible for the never-list that governs what TheWeal will and will not publish, for the corrections process, and for the human review that sits behind every model-based prediction the site produces. He is accountable for everything that carries the TheWeal masthead. James reads every reader correction personally and considers a published mistake, promptly and visibly fixed, more trustworthy than one quietly buried.