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

Trump Media Raising $2.5B for Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

With the move, the operator of Truth Social is joining a growing roster of publicly-traded firms to raise capital for buying crypto assets like bitcoin.

Head and shoulders photo of U.S. President Donald Trump standing behind a microphone.

Finance

Prometheum Eyes U.S. Tokenization Boom With Acquisition and Fully Regulated Stack

The firm has acquired a broker-dealer and launched a SEC-registered digital transfer agent as competition heats up in the tokenization sector.

Aaron (pictured) and Benjamin Kaplan, Co-CEOs of Prometheum, are expanding their custody scope for crypto securities. (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Chart of the Week: Bitcoin Soars, But ‘Wen Lambo’ Crowd Is Missing From the Rally

Bitcoin hit new highs, but retail investors remain on the sidelines while institutional money fuels the steady rally.

He bought a Lambo, allegedly. (Wes Tindel/Unsplash)

Markets

Strategy Slumps 6%, Leading Crypto Names Lower as Bitcoin Treasury Strategies Are Questioned

Bitcoin slumped just modestly from record high levels on Friday, but the carnage in related stocks was far worse.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Credit: CoinDesk/Danny Nelson)

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Markets

Semler Scientific Bolsters Bitcoin Holdings with $50M Acquisition

The company acquired 455 bitcoin in its third-largest announced purchase.

Bitcoin, Semler Scientific

Markets

Good Vibes Shattered as Trump Revives Trade War, Sending Bitcoin Tumbling Below $109K

The president Friday morning threatened an imminent 50% tariff on all EU imports as well as a 25% levy on imported Apple iPhones.

Donald Trump (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Markets

BlockTrust IRA Brings Quant Trading Tools to Crypto Retirement Accounts

By leveraging trading signals from Animus Technologies, BlockTrust IRA promises to beat benchmark BTC and ETH positions.

Retirement. Credit: Natalia Blauth, Unsplash

Markets

Centrifuge Expands Tokenized RWAs to Solana, Starting With $400M Treasury Fund

Solana is gaining momentum in the fast-growing tokenized real-world asset space as traditional finance and DeFi gets increasingly intertwined.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)

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Markets

Kraken to List Tokenized Version of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla Shares

The tokens will be deployed on Solana and backed by real securities held by Kraken’s partner, Backed Finance.

Kraken's homepage on a laptop (Piggy Bank/Unsplash)

Markets

First U.S. XRP Futures ETF Begins Trading on Nasdaq

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in XRP futures contracts and shares of other XRP-linked exchange-traded products.

Four of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds were among the top 20 U.S. ETF launches of all time. (Ivelin Radkov/Getty images)