Sofia Romero

Sofia Romero is TheWeal's Adoption Editor, covering the meeting point of crypto and the real world: regulation, payments, exchanges, institutional uptake and the policy decisions that decide what is legal where. She has reported on adoption and regulation since 2017, tracking how rules written for an older financial system are being stretched, rewritten or ignored to deal with digital assets. From Madrid she follows European and global policy closely — licensing regimes, stablecoin rules, exchange oversight and the tax treatment readers actually have to live with. Sofia is allergic to both boosterism and doom: her job, as she sees it, is to tell readers what a new rule or product genuinely changes for them, stripped of lobbying spin. She is precise about jurisdiction, because 'crypto is banned' and 'crypto is regulated' are very different sentences with very different consequences. Her coverage is built to help ordinary readers stay on the right side of the law without needing a compliance department.