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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Finance

Solana Company starts building high-speed infrastructure to prepare SOL for next 'super cycle'

The initiative targets institutional demand across Asia-Pacific, offering DeFi tools, liquid staking, and execution services designed for traditional finance firms entering the crypto space.

Solana portfolio shown on a laptop (Amjith S/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin rebound fades as software and private equity rout drags stocks and crypto lower

Crypto has been nearly perfectly correlated with a key software sector ETF, and that gauge has tumbled another 5% Monday to a new 52-week low.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Feb. 23 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Anthony Pompliano led Procap Financial dips toe into buybacks

The company, which has raised more than $750 million from investors, repurchased about $350,000 worth of its stock.

Anthony Pompliano. (CoinDesk)

Finance

BitMine Immersion added $98 million of ether last week as losses balloon to more than $8 billion

Tom Lee's Ethereum-focused firm continues buying into the crypto market weakness, now 4.42 million ETH tokens, or about 3.66 percent of the total supply.

Thomas Lee, chairman of BitMine and CIO of Fundstrat, on the main stage during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (David Paul Morris/Consensus, modified by CoinDesk)

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U.S. Treasury may boost T-Bill issuance as stablecoins eye $2 trillion market cap: StanChart

The bank said stablecoins may generate up to $1 trillion in fresh Treasury bill demand by 2028, allowing the government to ramp up issuance and suspend 30-year bond auctions.

The U.S. Treasury Department. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Pantera leads $11.5M round in Based, a Hyperliquid-powered crypto app

The company said the fresh capital will be used to expand into new markets and build out its onchain financial infrastructure.

Paul Veradittakit of Pantera Capital at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas remains bullish on bitcoin after plunge

Salinas has previously said he has 70% of his liquid assets in bitcoin.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

Strategy logs 100th bitcoin purchase announcement, adding 592 coins last week for $39.8 million

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company now holds 717,722 bitcoin, purchased at an average price of $76,020 per coin, for a total of $54.56 billion.

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR)

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Markets

Bitcoin slides 5%, tumbling below $65,000 as whale selling grows and recent buyers lock in losses

On-chain data from Glassnode and CryptoQuant shows large holders dominating exchange inflows while short-term investors continue to sell at a loss, pointing to a fragile base-building phase.

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Finance

To freeze or not to freeze: Satoshi and the $440 billion in bitcoin threatened by quantum computing

As quantum computing inches closer to reality, nearly 7 million bitcoin, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million coins, are potentially at risk.

Bitcoin bus (Photo: Olivier Acuna/Modified by CoinDesk)