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

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Marchés

AI Tokens Outperform CoinDesk 20 Index Tuesday Despite Clouds Forming Over Industry

New research from Goldman Sachs and Sequoia challenges assumptions that Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models can change the world.

(Possessed Photography/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Aims to Solve Web3's User-Friendly Issue With 'Passkeys Wallet'

The new wallet is able to bypass the need for seed phrases, browser extensions or email verifications to use decentralized apps.

16:9 Wallet (Prasanta Sahoo/PIxabay)

Finance

BlackRock's BUIDL Fund Tops $500M as Tokenized Treasury Market Soars

The overall market of tokenized U.S. Treasury products has reached $1.8 billion, rwa.xyz data shows.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

Marchés

Bitcoin Drops as German Government Unloads Over $900M Worth of BTC

Wallets linked to the German government still hold some 23,788 bitcoin, meaning that it has already sold more than half of its seized assets, according to Arkham Intelligence data.

Bitcoin price on Monday (CoinDesk)

Marchés

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: 19 Out of 20 Assets in the Green

FIL and LINK emerged as top performers, driving the CoinDesk 20 index higher by 3.2%.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Marchés

Bitcoin Climbs Over $57K, With Some Saying Mt. Gox Sales Already ‘Priced In’

Markets have priced in Mt. Gox’s ongoing repayments and U.S. policies could now start influencing the market, one trading desk said.

Trader looks at lines of support and resistance (Unsplash)

Marchés

Bitcoin ETF Investors Bought the Dip on Friday, With Inflows Topping $140M

The price of the world's largest crypto has seen a very modest bounce since tumbling below $54,000 early Friday.

(Getty Images)

Marchés

Crypto Crash Pushes Fear & Greed Index to Lowest Since Bitcoin Traded at $17K in Early 2023

The widely-followed sentiment metric hit extreme greed levels earlier in March near the local top of the crypto market, but now is pushing its limits in the opposite direction.

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (Art Institute of Chicago)

Marchés

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Plunged, With All 20 Assets Declining

The CoinDesk 20 Index dropped by 5.7% since Thursday afternoon, with LTC and ATOM leading the decline.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Marchés

U.S. Added 206K Jobs in June as Unemployment Rate Rose to Highest Since November 2021

Bitcoin dipped a hair on the news but prices had already crashed over the past 48 hours as markets dealt with a crush of new supply.

The government's jobs report for January was released Friday (David McNew/Getty Images)