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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Mercados

BlackRock takes first DeFi step, lists BUIDL on Uniswap as UNI jumps 25%

BlackRock will make shares of its $2.2 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury fund tradable on the decentralized exchange Uniswap.

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Mercados

Analysts react as Robinhood slumps 10%, with slowdown in crypto trading weighing on results

JPMorgan and Compass Point were among the sell-side teams trimming price targets on HOOD.

Robinhood logo on a smartphone screen

Mercados

Bithumb admits to ‘serious flaws’ that left internal systems vulnerable to potential sabotage

The South Korean crypto exchange’s CEO Le Jae-won said the lack of proper controls led to the erroneous transfer of bitcoin worth more than $40 billion to customers. Most has been recovered.

Bitcoin bus (Photo: Olivier Acuna/Modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

U.S. added stronger than expected 130,000 jobs in January, with unemployment rate falling to 4.3%

Down sizably ahead of the jobs data, bitcoin rose modestly to $67,500 following the news.

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Publicidad

Finanzas

Binance teams up with Franklin Templeton to use tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral

Institutions can now use Benji-issued tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral to trade on Binance using Ceffu’s custody layer.

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Finanzas

Spark looks to build a safe bridge between onchain capital and TradFi

Spark is opening access to its $9 billion stablecoin liquidity pool for hedge funds and other institutions to bridge onchain capital with off-chain credit markets.

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Mercados

Robinhood misses Q4 revenue estimates as fourth-quarter results dinged by crypto slump

Crypto revenue fell 38% year over year to $221M, even as the company expanded token listings and crypto features across its platform.

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Tecnología

Citadel Securities backs LayerZero as it unveils ‘Zero’ blockchain for global markets

Citadel has made a strategic investment in LayerZero’s ZRO token as the interoperability firm rolls out its high-performance blockchain.

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Publicidad

Regulación

Ex-SafeMoon CEO gets 8-year prison sentence for defrauding investors

Braden John Karony had been convicted last year on several federal charges, and he's ordered to pay back $7.5 million in restitution.

The U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Regulación

Sam Bankman-Fried files for new trial over FTX fraud charges

The incarcerated former leader of the failed crypto exchange wants a new chance to defend against fraud charges.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)