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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Tech

Square Flies the Flag for the Lightning Network With 9.7% Yield on Bitcoin Holdings

Block's Miles Suter said that the firm is earning "real BTC returns from our corporate holdings...by efficiently routing real payments across Lightning"

16:9 Lightning (Nordseher/Pixabay)

Markets

CANTO Rises From the Ashes, Spiking 250% Before Crashing Back Down

The project has not posted on X since September despite claiming it would release a new roadmap.

CoinDesk

Markets

Telegram Raises $1.7B Via Convertible Bonds: Bloomberg

The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth.

Telegram app on a smartphone (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Markets

TON Under Pressure After Telegram's Pavel Durov Confirms No xAI Deal Was Signed

"No deal was signed" said Elon Musk, the xAI CEO, in response to an announcement earlier on Wednesday by Telegram's Pavel Durov

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov (TechCrunch Disrupt Europe/Creative Commons)

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Markets

Nvidia's Earnings Beat May Help AI-Linked Tokens

The company reported a 69% increase in revenue in the first quarter compared to a year ago.

Nvidia (CoinDesk Archives)

Policy

UK's FCA Seeks Views on Stablecoins, Crypto Custody to Prevent Firm Failures

The country's market regulator's proposed rules are meant to ensure stablecoins maintain their value and seek to reduce the likelihood of stablecoin and crypto custody companies failing.

UK FCA building (FCA)

Finance

Bitcoin Platform Mezo Debuts Mainnet to Build Circular BTC Economy

Mezo is built to be a Bitcoin finance platform that enables its users to unlock practical utility in BTC and thus become their own bank

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

Markets

Bitcoin Pulls Back to $107K, but NYDIG Analysis Suggests Market Far From Overheated

A number of indicators suggested the bull market has more room to run, said NYDIG.

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Finance

New Jersey's Bergen County to Tokenize $240B in Real Estate Deeds on Avalanche Network

The wealthy New York City suburb will migrate 370,000 property deeds — representing about $240 billion worth of real estate — onto an immutable, searchable blockchain ledger.

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

EToro Adds DOGE, XRP, SHIB and 9 Others in U.S. Crypto Push After Nasdaq Debut

The trading platform now offers 15 tokens in the U.S., expanding access as it settles into life as a public company.

EToro (CoinDesk Archives)