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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Finance

Ledger Unveils Second New Wallet of 2024

"Ledger Flex", like the Stax wallet which launched in May, incorporates touchscreen technology to "redefine the experience of self-custody," CEO Pascal Gauthier said

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RNDR's 12% Gain Leads as Index Rebounds

CoinDesk 20 Index jumped 4.4% fueled by RNDR's 12.6% rise and NEAR's 7.7% advance.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-26: leaders

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Broad-Based Decline Hits All 20 Assets, Sending Index Lower by 4.4%

The CoinDesk 20 fell nearly 100 points in overnight trading, with all assets in the red, including a 6.6% drop in ETH.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-25 - laggards

Markets

Bitcoin Holds Up as Tech Stocks Plunge, Ether Sinks a Day After ETF Launch

Solana's SOL and Ripple's XRP were notable outperformers.

Bitcoin price on July 24 (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Bitcoin Rewards App Fold Eyes Nasdaq Listing Via $365M SPAC Deal

The post-transaction entity will also have more than 1,000 BTC ($67 million) on its balance sheet

16:9 Fold (FotoRieth/Pixabay)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP and NEAR Help Push Index Upward

XRP and NEAR lead today's CoinDesk 20 gains with 5.6% and 3.3% increases, respectively.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

Ether ETFs See $107M Inflows on Day One as Trading Volume Tops $1B

Daily cumulative net inflow hit $106.78 million, with most ETFs in the green on the first day of trading.

BTC bulls need to act to avoid record ETF outflows. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Finance

BlackRock's $500M Tokenized Fund Pitches for Ethena's RWA Investment Plan; ENA Rallies 22%

Ethena's proposal to allocate funds to tokenized real-world assets for yield follows similar actions by crypto lender MakerDAO and Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum's development organization.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Slips to Near $65K as Mt. Gox Creditors Receive Assets on Kraken

Bitcoin cash led with a 7% decline, while Solana's SOL, Ripple's XRP and Cardano's ADA also dropped 4%-5% as the news of the Mt. Gox distribution weighed on sentiment.

Bitcoin price on July 23 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Spot Ether ETFs See $600M in Volume In First Half Day of Trading

Funds from Grayscale, BlackRock and Fidelity have seen the most volume, though analysts believe that Grayscale’s high amount comes from heavy outflows.

The eight recently launched spot ETH ETFs posted nearly $600M of volume in the first half of their first day of availability. (Charlie Harris/Unsplash)