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

Ether Jumps 10% to $3.4K After Bloomberg Ups Odds of Spot ETF Approval

Markets previously had mostly priced in SEC rejections of the proposed funds beginning this week.

(gopixa)

Markets

Bitcoin Breaks Out Above $68K as Solana's 7% Gain Leads Crypto Rally

Inflows into the spot bitcoin ETFs restarted in a big way last week as the price rallied from near the $60K level.

Crypto prices rallied on Friday (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Markets

Steven Cohen's Point72 Also an Owner of Bitcoin Via Spot ETFs

Roughly 13 out of the 25 biggest U.S.-based hedge funds held the spot bitcoin ETFs at the end of March, according to data from bitcoin brokerage River.

Steven Cohen ( Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Rises Above $67K, but Lags Broader Crypto Market as ETH, SOL, LINK Post Big Gains

Softer U.S. inflation figures and big institutional interest in the spot bitcoin ETFs helped turn sentiment around.

Bitcoin and other assets rose on Tuesday. (Unsplash)

Markets

NEAR Token's 10% Gain Tops CoinDesk 20 Last Week: CoinDesk Indices Market Update

All but two cryptos in the index moved higher over the past week, with Cosmos and Aptos missing out on the rally.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

Morgan Stanley Latest Bank to Disclose Spot Bitcoin ETF Holdings for Clients

The Wall Street giant held roughly $270 million worth of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust as of the end of March, according to a filing.

Morgan Stanley (Shutterstock)

Finance

DTCC, Chainlink Complete Pilot to Accelerate Fund Tokenization with JPMorgan, Templeton, BNY Mellon Participating; LINK Gains 7%

The aim of the Smart NAV pilot was to test a process to bring and disseminate fund data on multiple blockchains, a key step for tokenization.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov speaks at the project's SmartCon conference in Barcelona. (Chainlink)

Finance

Izzy Englander's Millennium, Paul Singer’s Elliott Among Bitcoin ETF Holders

Apollo Management was also a buyer in the spot bitcoin ETF space in the first quarter.

Paul Singer, founder, president, and co-CEO of Elliott Managemen. (Thos Robinson/Getty Images for New York Times)

Markets

Bitcoin Hits $66K as Soft Inflation Data Sparks Crypto Rally

Sluggish U.S. retail sales and softer inflation reports have opened the way for the next leg up in the crypto rally, Swissblock said.

Bitcoin price on May 15 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Incoming Vanguard CEO Won't Reverse Decision Not to Launch Bitcoin ETF

The former BlackRock executive didn't address the issue of giving Vanguard clients access to any of the other spot bitcoin ETFs that are available.

Vanguard logo (John Keeble/Getty Images)