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.

Stephen Alpher

Dernières de Stephen Alpher


Marchés

Fed Holds Rates Steady, Takes Note of Elevated Inflation

Bitcoin initially fell on hawkish language in the Fed's policy statement, but later recovered.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell (House Financial Services Committee)

Marchés

Canary Capital's ETF Plans Took Shape Thanks to Trump

Opened last October by ex-Valkyrie founder and CEO Steven McClurg, Canary quickly filed back-to-back applications for four crypto-related exchange-traded funds (ETF).

Canary Capital founder and CEO Steve McClurg (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms Targeted by Second Activist Investor: Reuters

The move comes after another activist investor, Starboard, had taken a stake in the miner late last year.

(Shutterstock)

Marchés

Institutions Are Primed for MicroStrategy's Preferred Stock Sale, Say Analysts

A "near perfect" instrument is how Bitwise's Jeff Park described the new offering.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Credit: CoinDesk/Danny Nelson)

Finance

Trump Media Starts New Fintech Platform Truth.Fi Focusing on Crypto, ETFs

Truth.Fi is the latest endeavor of Donald Trump-affiliated companies into the digital asset space after World Liberty Financial and launching an "official" memecoin.

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Marchés

Bitwise Files to Launch Dogecoin ETF

The asset manager is among a number of issuers seeking ETFs for the memecoin.

Bitwise submitted an S-1 form to the SEC, a step forward for its dogecoin ETF plans. (CoinDesk)

Technologies

Quantum Startup BTQ Proposes More Energy Efficient Alternative to Crypto's Proof of Work

A new paper proposes using a method called "coarse-grained boson-sampling" to validate the proof of work process and reward successful miners.

Bitcoin ASIC miner (CoinDesk Archives)

Marchés

MOVE Jumps 20% on Trump-Linked World Liberty Fi Token Purchase, Musk's DOGE Involvement

"Our papers have never hit the DOGE desk," Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement Labs, told CoinDesk. "There's a lot of speculation in the rumors."

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Technologies

Movement Labs Unveils Developer Mainnet Ahead of February's Public Launch

The company is also introducing a multi-asset liquidity program to provide the foundation for DeFi applications

Movement Labs co-founders Cooper Scanlon and Rushi Manche (Movement Labs)

Technologies

SSV DAO Unveils “SSV 2.0” Framework, Bringing bApps to Ethereum

Based applications — bApps — will be able to leverage Ethereum validators directly from the layer-1, allowing them to avoid security and centralizing risks.

SSV Network unveils its new framework, "SSV 2.0", its most ambitious plan to date (Wikipedia)