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

Ripple Partners With Chipper Cash to Boost Payments in Africa Using XRP

Chipper Cash, which claims to have five million customers across nine African countries, said the move will allow consumers to speedily receive funds from around the world, around the clock.

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Finance

Northern Trust to Provide Custody, Cash Management Services for Stablecoin Issuer Haycen

Haycen provides stablecoin-based solutions for non-bank lenders in global trade.

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Markets

GameStop Raising $1.3B Via Convertible Debt to Buy Bitcoin

The offering comes 24 hours after the company announced its intention to begin adding bitcoin to its balance sheet.

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Markets

GameStop Bitcoin Pivot Spurs Social Media Chatter as Stock Soars 16%

The gaming retailer will spend some of its $4.8 billion cash holdings to buy bitcoin and stablecoins, sparking discussions around how much it will actually buy.

A GameStop store (CoinDesk Archive)

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Markets

Bitcoin Rally Reverses Despite Supposedly Bullish GameStop News

At least one analyst questioned why GameStop's plan to buy bitcoin was necessarily a good thing.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on March 26 (CoinDesk)

Markets

99% of Crypto Tokens Are Going to Zero: Fund Manager

Money managers in crypto are able to use trading strategies that stopped working in TradFi more than a decade ago.

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Tech

Ethereum’s Final Pectra Test Goes Live on Hoodi Network

The upgrade is the last of three tests, and developers previously agreed they would schedule Pectra 30 days from Wednesday if the test ran smoothly.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitso Launches Stablecoin Business, Eyeing LatAm Cross-Border Payments

The newly established subsidiary, Juno, will first issue a Mexican peso stablecoin on Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum.

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Finance

FalconX Said to Have Suffered Wave of Senior Staff Departures, Including General Counsel, European Head

A total of 10-15 people have left the business recently, two sources said.

FalconX CEO Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)

Markets

GameStop to Add Bitcoin to Balance Sheet

Company CEO Ryan Cohen had teased possible purchases weeks ago, notably sharing a photo of himself and Strategy's Michael Saylor at a Mar-a-Lago event

(John Smith/VIEWpress)