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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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)

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)

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Finance

Coinbase Alum-Founded Turnkey Raises $30M Series B to Grow Engineering Team

The funding round was led by Bain Capital Crypto and included contributions from Lightspped Faction and Galaxy Ventures

Turnkey co-founders Jack Kearney and Bryce Ferguson (Turnkey)

Markets

Michael Saylor's Strategy Added 1,045 Bitcoin for $110M Last Week

The company now holds a total of 582,000 tokens purchased at an average price of just over $70,000 each.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De)

Markets

HIVE Digital Capacity Crosses 10 EH/s in May, Aims to More Than Double That by Year-End

The firm’s hydropowered Paraguayan facilities fuelled a 58% monthly hashrate jump.

Paraguay. Credit: Planet Volumes, Unsplash+

Finance

Polymarket Partners Up With Elon Musk's xAI

Shayne Coplan, the prediction market's CEO, said that the two "truth-seeking apps" would be stronger together.

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

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Finance

Stablecoin Fever With Circle Soaring Another 40%: Apple, X Among Those Reportedly Wanting In

According to Fortune, the tech giants are in early talks with crypto firms to add stablecoin payments to reduce fees.

(A.C./Unsplash)

Markets

U.S. Added 139K Jobs in May, Roughly In Line With Forecasts

The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.2%, also matching economist forecasts.

The U.S. released January jobs numbers Friday morning (Ernie Journeys/Unsplash)