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

Solana, Avalanche, Chainlink Tumble 8%-12% as Crypto Rally Cools Amid Fake BlackRock XRP Trust Filing

Some analysts have warned that recent gains for crypto left markets vulnerable to a pullback.

Solana price (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bogus BlackRock XRP Filing Spoofs ETF Watchers, Crypto Traders

The fake filing sent XRP higher by more than 10% before the token gave back those gains.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Markets

CPI Report Tuesday Could Provide Next Bitcoin Catalyst

The U.S. government tomorrow will report on October inflation data.

The April inflation report was released Wednesday morning (JLGutierrez/Getty Images)

Markets

Crypto Fund Inflows of $293M Bring Yearly Total Above $1B: CoinShares

It's not just bitcoin as ether-related funds saw their largest weekly inflow in more than a year.

A third straight week of strong inflows (CoinShares)

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Finance

Ethereum Wallet Drainer Steals $60M in Six Months

Hackers are using a piece of code called Create2 to bypass security alerts when users sign malicious signatures.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Policy

IRS 'Raided' by Crypto Investors as Industry Puts Up Fight Against U.S. Tax Proposal

The proposal to establish a U.S. tax regime for digital assets has drawn a stunning 120,000 comments and will be the focus of an IRS hearing today.

The U.S. is weighing crypto tax rules, and a hearing today will hear from industry representatives worried about the government going too far. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk.)

Finance

Hacker Steals $27M in Tether From Wallet Linked to Binance Deployer

The funds were then bridged to bitcoin on the THORChain bridge.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Fund Holdings Hit All-Time High as Spot ETF Excitement Entices Crypto Investors

Digital asset funds surpassed $1 billion in net inflows this year, with money overwhelmingly flowing into BTC-focused investments, CoinShares reported.

Bitcoin held by funds (ByteTree)

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Markets

Coinbase, Ether Liquid Staking Tokens Lido, RocketPool Surge on BlackRock ETH ETF News

The iShares Ethereum Trust was registered as a corporate entity in the state of Delaware earlier Thursday.

LDO price (CoinDesk)

Markets

ETH Soars Above $2K as BlackRock iShares Ethereum Trust Registered as Corporate Entity in Delaware

BlackRock declined to comment on the filing mentioning the iShares Ethereum Trust.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)