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

S&P’s New Index Blends 15 Cryptos With 35 Crypto-Linked Stocks

Dinari will issue a blockchain-based token that tracks the performance of the index on-chain.

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Markets

Bitcoin Miner IREN Jumps 9% After Securing New Multi-Year AI Cloud Contracts

AI and HPC stocks are moving higher again, with IREN, Bitfarms, and Hive Digital extending their rally on rising GPU and cloud momentum.

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Markets

Newly Public Crypto Exchange Gemini Gets Lukewarm Reception From KBW

Though liking the long-term prospects for the Winklevoss-led company, KBW placed a market perform rating on the stock, expecting GEMI to remain unprofitable for the time being.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss at the White House on July 18, 2025. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

XRP Retail Sentiment Flips Bearish, Flashing a Contrarian Buy Signal

Retail traders are showing their most bearish tilt since the panic surrounding Trump’s tariff announcements bank in April.

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KindlyMD Partners with Antalpha on $250M Bitcoin-Backed Financing Deal

The deal aims to expand Naka's bitcoin treasury and strengthen long-term balance sheet flexibility.

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BNY Mellon Trials Blockchain Deposits to Overhaul $2.5T Payments Processing

The effort aims to enable near-instant settlement and potentially reduce transaction costs, with tokenized deposits moving over a blockchain.

The Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon Corp (River North Photography/Getty Images)

Finance

Ex-BlockFi CEO Zac Prince Returns to Crypto Spotlight to Lead Galaxy Digital’s New Banking Platform

Prince's BlockFi became a symbol of crypto’s lending boom and bust, offering interest-bearing accounts, before collapsing when FTX’s failure left it short of liquidity.

Zac Prince, CEO de BlockFi, en Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Leap Therapeutics Shares Jump on $59M Winklevoss-Led Crypto Deal

The penny stock name said the investment will be used to purchase cryptocurrency to be held on the company balance sheet.

Cryptocurrency prices seen on phone and monitors. (Sajad Nori/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Options Market Now Big Enough to Move Spot Prices, FalconX Says

Options flows now shape price direction more than spot trades as institutions lean on Deribit and IBIT to position around volatility.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

AI/HPC Bitcoin Miners Rally as AMD Soars 30% on OpenAI Deal

OpenAI’s multi-billion-dollar chip agreement with AMD fuels sector-wide gains across artificial intelligence and high-performance computing stocks.

Racks of mining machines.