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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Michael Saylor’s Strategy added $467 million in cash, made no changes to bitcoin holdings

The company raised the fresh cash via sales of common stock; its USD Reserve now stands at $3 billion.

Michael Saylor in conversation with CoinDesk's James Van Straten (CoinDesk)

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Live markets: Bitcoin, stocks, bonds sharply lower as Fed's Waller signals near-term rate hike

The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

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Stablecoin market cap has shrunk by $10 billion since May, but analyst sees no reason to panic

The market shrank by $7.7 billion in June alone, the largest dollar amount since May 2022's Terra-Luna crash, but stablecoins will likely resume their long-term growth, one analyst said.

storm, clouds, silver lining (Liu JiaWei/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital sold about half of its BTC stack

It's a sign of the times as the troubled company swaps its bitcoin treasury ambitions for AI data centers.

Cryptos reverse course

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AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it

The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerable crash out of it. It also got a pile of confident, well-written findings that were not bugs at all.

AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it (CoinDesk)

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OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents

The Genlayer Foundation is leading the 27-firm consortium that makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Live updates: Bitcoin rises to $64,000 as SK Hynix opens for trade after $26.5 billion IPO

Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot in crypto's institutional flows even as prices rallied.

1 kg gold bars set out in ranks.

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Grayscale's CFO exits after 7 years with crypto asset manager

Edward McGee stepped down after seven years, months after distribution chief John Hoffman left for Ondo Finance.

(Grayscale)

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Arbitrum jumps 19% benefitting from Robinhood's $568 million onchain trading frenzy

The brokerage's new blockchain is off to a fast start, with memecoin trading boosting activity and revenue flowing back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Robinhood's Vlad Tenev speaks at Token2049 in Singapore (Token2049)

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Billions flowing out of bitcoin ETFs and private credit funds suggest rising market risks

Redemption requests in the $2 trillion private credit market surged to $15.6 billion in the second quarter, dwarfing bitcoin ETF outflows.

Private credit funds see large redemption requests (aditya1702/Unsplash)