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

Negative Rates Return to Switzerland as U.S. Faces Higher Yields. What Does it Mean for Bitcoin?

The divergence in bond yields likely represents the perceived effects of Trump's trade war and could bode well for bitcoin.

Trading chart (Nicholas Cappello/Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi Leader Aave Debuts on Sony-Backed Soneium Blockchain

The deal will include Aave’s participation in upcoming liquidity incentive campaigns, including with the Astar, a blockchain prominent in the Japanese Web3 ecosystem.

Photo of Stani Kulechov in 2019 (CoinDesk archive)

Markets

Growing Stacks of Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Signals Bullish Outlook

As the bitcoin counts of long-term holders has increased, that of short-term holders has fallen.

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Markets

Blockchain Initiatives Have Been Adopted by 60% of Fortune 500 Companies: Coinbase Survey

The crypto exchange surveyed Fortune 500 company execs and decision makers at small and medium-sized firms in the U.S. to assess crypto adoption trends.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

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Markets

Trump Media and Semler Scientific Could Be Cheapest Bitcoin Treasury Companies by This Metric

The commonly used mNAV is an insufficient gauge for measuring relative valuations, argues NYDIG's Greg Cipolaro

Semler Scientific stacked additional bitcoin in third quarter (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Markets

Plasma’s XPL Token Sale Attracts $500M as Investors Chase Stablecoin Plays

The oversubscribed raise follows stablecoin issuer Circle’s massive IPO last week, underscoring investor appetite for stablecoin-related projects.

Plasma (Unsplash)

Policy

Paraguay President's X Account Hacked, Shares Bitcoin Scam

Santiago Peña's account said that bitcoin would be made legal tender.

Paraguay. Credit: Planet Volumes, Unsplash+

Markets

Red-Hot Circle Already Has Two ETFs Devoted to It in the Works

Shares are up another 9% in volatile action on Monday, now having nearly quadrupled in price since the IPO late last week.

(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Markets

Chainlink's LINK Stages V-Shape Recovery After 14% Plunge

Oracle network Chainlink's native token shows resilience with strong demand stepping in at key support levels.

LINK price on June 9 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ethereum Blockchain Is Useful Technology That 'Deserves Love,' Bernstein Says

Ether ETF inflows totaled $815 million over the last 20 days as investors have woken up to the network's value proposition, the broker said.

Abstract Ethereum blocks and dollars (Dall-E, modified by CoinDesk)