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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Custodia Bank Appeals Court Loss in Fed Master Account Lawsuit

Custodia filed a notice of appeal on Friday after a judge last month ruled it did not have the right to a Fed master account.

Caitlin Long, Founder and CEO, Custodia Bank and Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Franklin Templeton Upgrades $380M Tokenized Treasury Fund to Enable Peer-to-Peer Transfers

The new feature helps to expand the utility of the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund's BENJI token and make it more interconnected with the digital asset ecosystem.

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Bitcoin Dips to $63K as Rate Cut Hopes Dim Following Disappointing U.S. Inflation Report

Increasing concerns about sticky inflation hit risk assets across all markets, cryptos included.

Bitcoin price on April 25 (CoinDesk)

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KPMG Survey Finds 39% of Canada’s Institutional Investors Had Exposure To Crypto Assets in 2023

Of those 39%, three quarters owned crypto currencies directly.

Canada's regulatory situation is both clear and more conservative than in the U.S. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

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Spot Bitcoin, Ether ETFs Get Official Approval in Hong Kong; 'Potential Fee War' Unfolding, Says Analyst

One of the issuers waived management fees for the first six months, undercutting rival offerings.

Spot bitcoin ETFs could soon be coming to Hong Kong (Allan Watt/Flickr)

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Bitcoin Halving Is Not a Bullish Event, Says 10x Research Analyst

Markus Thielen, co-founder of 10x Research, said that previous post-halving bull run cycles weren’t a result of the halving, but of the macro environment.

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Ondo Finance Brings Tokenized Treasuries to the Cosmos Ecosystem with Noble Integration

Introducing Ondo Finance's offerings to Cosmos "will bring vastly improved utility and liquidity to appchains and their users, all while offering exposure to yielding instruments," Ondo's founder Nathan Allman said.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

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Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Likely Not Available for Mainland Chinese Investors: Bloomberg

Analyst expectations of as much as $25 billion in fresh demand may have to be tempered.

Hong Kong (Ruslan Bardash / Unsplash)

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Bitcoin Tumbles Below $60K, Ether Under $3K; Correction Not Over, Says Strategist

Large bitcoin investors haven't started to buy the dip yet, suggesting that the correction may continue for a while, an LMAX Group strategist noted.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on April 17 (CoinDesk)

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Tokenized Credit Platform Centrifuge Plans Institutional RWA Lending on Coinbase's Base, Raises $15M in VC Investment

CFG, the protocol's native token, spiked as much as 14% after the announcement before paring gains and outperformed other DeFi tokens.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)