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

Cipher Mining Stock Gains 5% on Google AI Hosting Deal

Tech giant to secure equity stake through long-term partnership with Fluidstack.

Bitcoin miners (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Edges Higher as Gold Bull Takes a Breather

Despite holding similar properties, gold and bitcoin have been moving in opposite directions of late.

Close-up of stacked gold bars. (Jingming Pan/Unsplash)

Finance

BNB Chain to Slash Fees as Aster Spurs On-Chain Exchange Wars

BNB Chain is preparing to cut fees and speed up block times, with Aster overtaking rival HyperLiquid in both revenue and token momentum.

BNB Chain metrics (TokenTerminal)

Markets

Ether Treasuries Are Going Mainstream: Crypto Investment Firm Bitwise

Digital asset treasuries are now allocating to ether at scale, creating structural demand that exceeds new supply, the report said.

Ether spot ETFs to see same sources of demand as bitcoin versions but on lower scale: Bernstein. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

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Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard Fork

Also: Plasma to Launch Mainnet This Week, New Liquid Staking Token for XRP Holders, and ICP Bets Big on AI Tech Stack.

Ethereum Logo (Midjourney / Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

CZ, YZi Labs Refute Report of Opening $10B Investment Company to External Investors

"False news...with with fake/wrong/made-up info and negative narrative," said Changpeng "CZ" Zhao in response to the story.

Chanpeng "CZ" Zhao (Nikhilesh De/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Surge on Speculation of OpenAI-Driven Energy Demand

Publicly traded miners are riding the AI infrastructure boom as investors bet excess capacity can fuel high-performance computing.

CoinDesk

Markets

Bitcoin Miner IREN Has 80% Potential Upside Thanks to Big Bet on AI Cloud: Bernstein

The broker hiked its IREN price target to $75 from $20 while reiterating its outperform rating on the stock.

Bitcoin mining machines (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Elliptic Lands HSBC Investment, Extending Big Bank Backing in Blockchain Analytics

The London-based firm says the deal underscores growing institutional demand for blockchain oversight as banks move deeper into digital assets.

Elliptic CEO Simone Maini (Elliptic)

Finance

Orderly Network Introduces Build-Your-Own Perp DEX Platform

"Orderly One" allows a perp DEX to be built in a matter of minutes without requiring the writing of any lines of code, Orderly said.

DIY, plumbing (Steve Buissinne/Pixabay)