Stephen Alpher

Co-regional news chief, Americas

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.

Latest from Stephen Alpher

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Broad-Based Gains Push Index Up 8.2%

ICP led today's gains in the CoinDesk 20 Index with a 26.1% rise.

Jul 15, 2024

Policy

Conduct Versus Code May Be the Defining Question in Roman Storm Prosecution

Prosecutors and Roman Storm's attorneys met in court Friday to argue over motions to dismiss the charges against the developer and address evidentiary questions.

Jul 12, 2024

Tornado Cash's Roman Storm, second from left, and his legal team – Brian Klein (left), Keri Axel and Kevin Casey – outside court in New York. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Fed Might Focus on Weakening Labor Market Rather Than Inflation as It Mulls Rate Cuts: Economists

Thursday’s CPI report showed that prices declined on a monthly basis for the first time since March 2020, spurring hope that the Fed will finally cut rates.

Jul 12, 2024

A weakening labor market could persuade the Fed to cut rates even as inflation is not yet back to the Fed's 2% goal. (Anchalee Phanmaha/Getty Images)

Finance

MakerDAO's $1B Tokenized Treasury Investment Plan Draws Interest from BlackRock's BUIDL, Ondo, Superstate

MakerDAO's competition to allocate funds will open next month, and would give a big boost for the $1.8 billion tokenized real-world asset space.

Jul 12, 2024

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP Gains Amid Overall Index Decline

Cardano's ADA joined XRP as the only other index constituent to post an advance.

Jul 12, 2024

Finance

Morgan Creek Digital to Raise up to $500M for New Web3 Venture Capital Fund

The new fund will target early stage opportunities in AI, blockchain technology, chips and data.

Jul 12, 2024

Morgan Creek Digital to raise up to $500M for new Web3 venture capital fund. (Jason Leung/Unsplash)

Markets

Germany Almost Done Selling Bitcoin, Holding Less Than 5K Tokens After Latest Moves

Thursday was another big day of transfers to exchanges linked to German authorities, blockchain data shows.

Jul 11, 2024

German bitcoin holdings (Arkham Intelligence)

Markets

Crypto Bulls Frustrated as Bitcoin and Stocks Recouple – to the Downside

A continuing series of record highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq over the past weeks has done nothing to prop up sliding crypto prices, but Thursday saw both asset classes tumbling together.

Jul 11, 2024

Finance

Coinbase Unveils Web App to Track Personal On-Chain Wallets

The app is available on both desktops and mobile devices.

Jul 11, 2024

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: NEAR and APT Lead as Index Rises 0.2%

Fourteen of 20 assets in the gauge posted gains.

Jul 11, 2024