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

Mt. Gox Postpones Repayment Deadline to 2025, Allaying Concerns of Bitcoin Selling Pressure

Crypto wallets linked to the defunct exchanges still hold $2.8 billion of bitcoin after having distributed about $6 billion worth of assets to creditors earlier this year.

Mt. Gox Creditor Kolin Burges confronts Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk)

Mercados

MicroStrategy Soars to 25-Year High, With 'NAV Premium' the Widest Since 2021

The stock has gained 4% since bitcoin hit an all-time high in March, while bitcoin itself has declined 16%.

MicroStrategy executive chairman and co-founder Michael Saylor. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RENDER jumps 6.5%, With All Index Constituents Rising

NEAR was also a top performer, gaining 5.1%

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-10-11: Leaders

Mercados

Bitcoin Tumbles Below $59K Amid Inflation Worry, Regulatory Onslaught on Crypto

Uniswap's UNI token was the only CoinDesk 20 constituent in the green over the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin price on 10/10 (CoinDesk)

Publicidad

Mercados

Nearly 50% of U.S. Investors Plan to Invest in Crypto ETFs: Charles Schwab Survey

Crypto was the leading asset class among millennial ETF investors, topping even stocks and bonds, the survey showed.

Millenials favor crypto ETFs (Unsplash)

Finanzas

Ethena Picks BlackRock's BUIDL, Mountain, Superstate and Sky's USDS for $46M Tokenized RWA Investment

The allocation fits into the growing trend of DeFi platforms and protocol foundations investing in real-world asset-backed products to earn a yield without leaving blockchain rails.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: UNI Surges 10.4%, While Index Trades Mostly Flat

Aptos was the weakest performer, falling 6.9%

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-10-10: leaders

Mercados

U.S. September CPI Disappoints, Rising a Faster Than Expected 0.2%

Bitcoin fell, with the news likely to further raise the odds of a Fed pause at the its next policy meeting in November.

U.S. inflation data for September was released Thursday morning (Frank van Hulst/Unsplash)

Publicidad

Regulación

Prosecutors Charge Four Crypto ‘Market Makers,’ Employees With Market Manipulation, Fraud

Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted to artificially inflate their trading volume, prosecutors allege.

(Shutterstock)

Finanzas

LatAm Bank Littio Ditches Ethereum for Avalanche as Demand for RWA Vaults Grows

Avalanche's low transaction fees and consistency were cited as reasons for picking that chain.

Avalanche. (Unsplash)