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

PayPal Adding Crypto to Peer-to-Peer Payments, Allowing Direct Transfer of BTC, ETH, Others

The firm said users in the U.S. will soon be able to send bitcoin, ether and its own PYUSD stablecoin directly across accounts as part of the company's crypto payment push.

PayPal logo on iphone screen (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Lender Maple Expands to Tether-Backed Plasma

The deployment marks first syrupUSDT launch beyond Ethereum as Maple targets $5B in assets by year-end.

Maple Finance's Sid Powell (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

PEPE Price Sinks 6% Amid Market Sell-Off as Whales Accumulate

The drop in PEPE's value was part of a wider crypto market drawdown, with the CoinDesk 20 index losing 1.8% of its value, and memecoins being especially hard hit.

PEPE USD price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Ether Bigger Beneficiary of Digital Asset Treasuries Than Bitcoin or Solana: StanChart

The strongest DATs will be those with cheap funding, scale, and staking yield, which favors ether and solana treasuries over bitcoin, analyst Geoff Kendrick said.

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Markets

CoreWeave Stock Climbs 5% After $6.3B Cloud Capacity Deal with Nvidia

Nvidia agreed to purchase CoreWeave’s unused data center capacity through 2032.

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. The tech leaders testified about the global artificial intelligence race and where the United States can remain competitive. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Markets

Pantera-Backed Solana Treasury Firm Helius Raises $500M, Stock Soars Over 200%

The firm aims to accumulate Solana's SOL, competing with recently launched Forward Industries that has bought over $1.5 billion in SOL in a week.

Consensus 2025: Dan Morehead, Founder & CEO, Pantera Capital

Markets

Nvidia Drops 3% as China Says the Company Violated Anti-Trust Laws

The news could explain the weakness in bitcoin, which declined more than 1.5% over the past two hours to the current $114,900.

Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.(Nvidia/CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

NAKA Plunges 55% as PIPE Investors Ready Sales

AI-related bitcoin mining stocks extended gains as Tesla jumps on Elon Musk’s share purchase.

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Markets

Polymarket Weighs $9B Valuation Amid User Surge and CFTC Approval: The Information

That would be a massive jump as the betting platform raised funds at just a $1 billion valuation just back in June.

Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk).

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Catch Friday Afternoon Bids, Rise to Three-Week Highs

Next week is expected see the first Fed rate cut in one year.

Bull move