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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Tecnologie

XRP Ledger rolls out members-only DEX for regulated institutions

A permissioned DEX amendment creates controlled versions of XRPL’s built-in exchange, letting approved entities decide who can place and take orders.

XRP News

Mercati

Abu Dhabi wealth funds bitcoin ETF holdings topped $1 billion at end of 2025

Both Mubadala Investment Company and Al Warda Investments lifted investments in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) in the fourth quarter.

Abu Dhabi skyline

Finanza

Gold firm Elemental Royalty to pay out dividends in Tether's tokenized gold

The company claimed the bragging right of being the first to let investors opt for dividend payments in a cryptocurrency, backed by gold.

Gold (Unsplash/Zlataky/Modified by CoinDesk)

Mercati

Trading platform eToro shares jump 14% after posting record Q4 profit despite crypto revenue drop

The results were particularly notable given the struggles at peers Robinhood and Coinbase.

EToro (CoinDesk Archives)

Pubblicità

Finanza

Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto to acquire BTC Inc and UTXO in $107 million all-stock deal

Some reacted with concerns about dilution for existing shareholders due to the stock price decline and the related-party nature of the transaction.

Business deal handshake (Radission US/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Mercati

Bitcoin slips below $67,000 as software stocks continue to plunge

The most important indicator for bitcoin's price direction at the moment is the iShares Tech-Software ETF, and it's down another 3% on Tuesday.

A sign warning of a danger of slipping stands on a wet floor. (zhu difeng/Shutterstock)

Finanza

BitMine adds $90 million in ETH — Tom Lee says crypto sentiment reminiscent of 2018 and 2022 bottoms

The Ethereum treasury firm continues its buying spree with its largest weekly ETH purchase in token terms this year.

Thomas Lee, chairman of BitMine and CIO of Fundstrat, on the main stage during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (David Paul Morris/Consensus, modified by CoinDesk)

Mercati

Michael Saylor's Strategy purchased $168 million in bitcoin last week

The company's stack is now 717,131 bitcoin acquired for $54.52 billion, or $76,027 per coin. Bitcoin's current price is $68,000.

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR)

Pubblicità

Politiche

Crypto execs Armstrong, Garlinghouse among many named to U.S. CFTC advisory group

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's new chief, Mike Selig, repurposed the agency's previous CEO innovation council, almost tripling its members.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Mercati

Coinbase misses Q4 estimates as transaction revenue falls below $1 billion

"Crypto is cyclical, and experience tells us it’s never as good, or as bad as it seems," said the company.

Coinbase