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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Märkte

Bitcoin Slips Below $118K, ETH, XRP Pare Big Gains, but Rally Remains on Firm Ground, Says Coinbase

Expect pullbacks, but there's not yet the type of runaway speculation associated with tops, Coinbase analysts said.

Bitcoin price on July 18 (CoinDesk)

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Chainlink's LINK Gains on Joining SEC Crypto Task Force's Tokenization Initiative

Chainlink Labs is among the digital asset projects that have been admitted to help the regulator set frameworks for compliant asset tokenization.

Chainlink (LINK) (CoinDesk)

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BONK Slumps 8% as Sellers Overwhelm Market After Brief Bounce

BONK fell after hitting resistance, with volume spiking to 2.16 trillion tokens

BONK-USD, July 18 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Ether Demand Driven by Institutional Buying in U.S., Coinbase Premium Shows

The ETH/Coinbase premium, which tracks the price difference between ETH on Coinbase and Binance flipped positive this week.

(Hans Eiskonen/Unsplash)

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U.S. Dollar's Recent Recovery May Have Legs, but Don't Bet on Comeback, Analysts Warn

All things being equal, a stronger U.S. dollar tends to work against higher bitcoin prices.

Rolls of dollar bills of varying denominations. (NikolayFrolochkin/Pixabay)

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Coinbase, Robinhood Hit Record Highs as U.S. House Passes Landmark Crypto Legislation

Crypto-linked stocks climbed higher on Thursday bolstered by investor optimism on stablecoin and crypto market structure bills advancing.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Technologie

Wyoming Tests Instant Payments with State-Issued Stablecoin on Avalanche-Based Hashfire

The exercise aims to showcase how stablecoins and blockchain rails can cut government vendor payments from weeks to seconds.

Cheyenne, Wyoming (Pete Alexopoulos/Unsplash)

Finanzen

Adam Back's Bitcoin Treasury Firm to Go Public with 30K BTC and $1.5B in Buying Power

Named Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, or BSTR, the company is coming public via a SPAC merger with Brandon Lutnick's Cantor Equity Partners 1.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Dogecoin Finds Another Corporate Treasury as Bit Origin Aims to Raise $500M to Build DOGE Stake

The Singapore-based, Nasdaq-listed nanocap said it would be first company on a major U.S. exchange to make DOGE its core treasury asset.

Banks in Singapore (Aditya Chinchure/Unsplash)

Finanzen

Semler Scientific Becomes 14th-Largest Public Bitcoin Holder After $25M BTC Buy

The company from July 3 to July 16 added 210 bitcoin, bringing its total stack to 4,846 coins.

AI trading screens. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)