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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Robinhood, Coinbase lead crypto stock rout as Trump rejects Iran plan

President Trump reportedly rejected Iran's offer to end the U.S. blockade and open the Strait of Hormuz, sending crude oil prices surging 6%.

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Finans

DeFi shaken by $292 million hack, but showing resilience, Standard Chartered says

The AAVE-led response and new safeguards underscore the sector's maturity as the bank maintains its $2 trillion RWA outlook.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Finans

Galaxy leads $20 million investment in Fence to overhaul back end of $6 trillion credit market

Startup Fence uses blockchain technology and tokenization in the background to automate processes that many asset managers still rely on manual workflows.

Fence co-founders Juan Montero (left) and Ignacio Rosario (Fence)

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Paul Tudor Jones calls bitcoin the 'best inflation hedge,' warns of overvalued stocks

It will be "really hard to make money" in stocks over the next decade, said the billionaire investor, noting that the S&P 500's valuation reminds him of the 2000 dot-com bubble.

Paul Tudor Jones (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin rally shows signs of fatigue as key indicators turn bearish

Cooling U.S. demand, elevated Bitfinex whale positioning and a key on chain rejection point to short term downside during the Las Vegas Bitcoin conference.

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MARA Holdings targets bitcoin quantum threat and network resilience with new foundation

Bitcoin's future is not guaranteed, said CEO Fred Thiel at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk "First Mover" screenshot)

Teknoloji

Solana developers outline plan to protect network from quantum threats

Two of the network’s core developer teams, Anza and Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, have landed on the same solution: a new type of digital signature called Falcon.

Quantum Computing Optics (Ben Wicks/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin is climbing on thin volume, leaving rally vulnerable to macro shock

Low trading volume and a lack of conviction from big-money bettors could leave the bitcoin rally on shaky ground, said 10x Research head Markus Thielen.

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys 3,273 bitcoin as it inches closer to its 1 million target

Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin in the world, now holds 818,334 BTC, which it said it purchased for nearly $62 billion at an average price of roughly $75,537 per token.

MicroStrategy executive chairman and co-founder Michael Saylor. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Five times President Trump made a statement that moved bitcoin, and why it might happen again this week

Trump’s social media posts and statements to news reporters have triggered 5% to 12% swings in the price of bitcoin, blurring the lines between policy and market manipulation.

U.S. President Donald Trump at a Republican congressional event in Florida (capture from White House video)