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

Cloudflare Unveils U.S. Dollar Stablecoin for AI-Powered Internet Economy

The cloud company said the token, dubbed NET Dollar, will enable instant, global transactions for autonomous agents online.

BTC faces "cloud resistance." (geralt/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Falls Below $111K, Crypto Stocks Plunge as GDP Revision Dampens Rate Cut Odds

The U.S. economy grew 3.8% in the second quarter, much higher than previously reported, sending yields higher and risk assets lower.

Ether has fallen below a key bull market trendline.  (Eva Blue/Unsplash)

Finance

SharpLink Gaming Set to Tokenize Its Equity on Ethereum With Superstate

The Ethereum-focused treasury firm is also exploring compliant trading of tokenized shares on decentralized markets as part of its partnership with Superstate.

Joe Lubin speaking at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

Markets

Cipher Mining Stock Gains 5% on Google AI Hosting Deal

Tech giant to secure equity stake through long-term partnership with Fluidstack.

Bitcoin miners (Shutterstock)

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Markets

Bitcoin Edges Higher as Gold Bull Takes a Breather

Despite holding similar properties, gold and bitcoin have been moving in opposite directions of late.

Close-up of stacked gold bars. (Jingming Pan/Unsplash)

Finance

BNB Chain to Slash Fees as Aster Spurs On-Chain Exchange Wars

BNB Chain is preparing to cut fees and speed up block times, with Aster overtaking rival HyperLiquid in both revenue and token momentum.

BNB Chain metrics (TokenTerminal)

Markets

Ether Treasuries Are Going Mainstream: Crypto Investment Firm Bitwise

Digital asset treasuries are now allocating to ether at scale, creating structural demand that exceeds new supply, the report said.

Ether spot ETFs to see same sources of demand as bitcoin versions but on lower scale: Bernstein. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard Fork

Also: Plasma to Launch Mainnet This Week, New Liquid Staking Token for XRP Holders, and ICP Bets Big on AI Tech Stack.

Ethereum Logo (Midjourney / Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

CZ, YZi Labs Refute Report of Opening $10B Investment Company to External Investors

"False news...with with fake/wrong/made-up info and negative narrative," said Changpeng "CZ" Zhao in response to the story.

Chanpeng "CZ" Zhao (Nikhilesh De/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Surge on Speculation of OpenAI-Driven Energy Demand

Publicly traded miners are riding the AI infrastructure boom as investors bet excess capacity can fuel high-performance computing.

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