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

Good Vibes Shattered as Trump Revives Trade War, Sending Bitcoin Tumbling Below $109K

The president Friday morning threatened an imminent 50% tariff on all EU imports as well as a 25% levy on imported Apple iPhones.

Donald Trump (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Markets

BlockTrust IRA Brings Quant Trading Tools to Crypto Retirement Accounts

By leveraging trading signals from Animus Technologies, BlockTrust IRA promises to beat benchmark BTC and ETH positions.

Retirement. Credit: Natalia Blauth, Unsplash

Markets

Centrifuge Expands Tokenized RWAs to Solana, Starting With $400M Treasury Fund

Solana is gaining momentum in the fast-growing tokenized real-world asset space as traditional finance and DeFi gets increasingly intertwined.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)

Markets

Kraken to List Tokenized Version of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla Shares

The tokens will be deployed on Solana and backed by real securities held by Kraken’s partner, Backed Finance.

Kraken's homepage on a laptop (Piggy Bank/Unsplash)

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Markets

First U.S. XRP Futures ETF Begins Trading on Nasdaq

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in XRP futures contracts and shares of other XRP-linked exchange-traded products.

Four of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds were among the top 20 U.S. ETF launches of all time. (Ivelin Radkov/Getty images)

Finance

Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Buys BUILDon Token, Sending the Price Up 1,340%

The token had a market cap of just $40 million before the purchase.

(World Liberty Financial)

Finance

Bitcoin Project Roxom Global Raises $17.9M to Build BTC Treasury, Create Media Network

RoxomTV is being built as a media network backed by a 100% bitcoin treasury and currently holds 84.72 BTC

16:9 TV (Pexels/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Sold Record Amount of BTC Ahead of May's Price Surge

With hashprice hovering near break-even levels, miners liquidated 115% of April production.

bitcoin miner (Shutterstock)

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Markets

Bitcoin Backs Off Quickly From Record High as Interest Rate Surge Hits Risk Assets

An already under pressure bond market took a further hit following a weak auction of long-term U.S. Treasury debt.

A do not wall crosswalk. (Kai Pilger/Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Solana to Get Major Design Overhaul

Also: New Eth Nodes Proposal, Solana Seeker Phone, World Token Sale

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