Stephen Alpher

Stephen is CoinDesk's managing editor for Markets. He previously served as managing editor at Seeking Alpha. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Stephen went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, majoring in finance. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Markets

Tether's $770M XAUT Backed by 7.7 Tons of Gold in Swiss Vault, Says Company

Tether reported the first attestation report for its Tether Gold product under new El Salvador regulations as gold demand surges globally

Gold breaks $3,000 an ounce (shutterstock)

Markets

Coinbase Targeting 4%-8% Returns With New Bitcoin Yield Fund

The Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund opens for business on May 1 and promises returns initially from basis trading, with lending and options strategies to be used in the future, according to launch partner Aspen Digital.

Coinbase. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin to Hit New All-Time High Around $120K in Q2, Standard Chartered Says

Strategic allocation away from U.S. assets is likely to be the catalyst for move to a new record.

Standard Chartered, majority owner of Zodia Custody. (Shutterstock)

Tech

Ethereum Could Supercharge Transaction Speed to 2,000 TPS Thanks to Bold New Proposal

A new proposal hopes to increase gas fee limits by 100-fold, which theoretically would bump transactions per second to 2,000 in the coming years.

Retro gas pump (unsplash)

Markets

Strategy Adds Additional $1.42B of Bitcoin With Latest Purchase

The company stack is worth more than $52 billion at bitcoin's current price of $95,000.

Photo of Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches FX Perpetual Futures, Offers 24/7 Trading in Forex Majors

The first contracts, EUR/USD and GBP/USD, are now live on Kraken Pro.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin in Standstill at $85K as Trump Increases Pressure on Fed's Powell

A sharp plunge in the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index coupled with rising prices added to U.S. stagflation fears amid the tariff war.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on April 17 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Hidden Road, Set to Be Acquired by Ripple, Wins U.S. Broker-Dealer License

Issued by FINRA, the license will allow the company to broaden fixed income prime brokerage services for institutional clients.

FINRA (Credit: Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock)

Markets

LayerZero's ZRO Jumps 10% as VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Buys $55M Worth

The venture capital firm's ZRO acquisition follows previous investments in the protocol.

LayerZero co-founders CTO Ryan Zarick and CEO Bryan Pellegrino (Chung Chow, BIV)

Markets

Crypto Stock Tracking ETF Coming Soon From VanEck

The VanEck Onchain Economy ETF (NODE) is expected to start trading on May 14th with a management fee of 0.69%.

Jan van Eck, president and CEO of VanEck speaks at Consensus Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)