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

Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion Newest Target of Short-Seller Kerrisdale Capital

The company's model mimics a failing playbook and lacks transparency and leadership appeal, said Kerrisdale.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee (Myunggu Han/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin and Ether ETFs Saw Big Inflows Tuesday as Investors Bought Dip

The spot bitcoin funds drew in nearly $900 million, while the ether ETFs pulled more than $400 million.

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Polkadot's DOT Consolidates After Sharp Decline

The token slumped 4% amid a wider decline in crypto markets.

DOT Price Slides 4.6% Amid High Volume as Institutional Buyers Support Key $4.07 Level

Finance

Brevan Howard-Backed Tokenization Firm Expands Funds to Sei as RWA Momentum Grows

Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are emerging as a key bridge between TradFi and DeFi.

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Finance

RWA Chain Plume Acquiring Dinero to Expand Institutional DeFi Yield Offering

The deal aims to boost Plume's institutional push offering a broader set of yield strategies including liquid staking, co-founder Teddy Pornprinya said.

Plume co-founders Teddy Pornprinya and Chris Yin (Plume)

Markets

‘Chinese’ Memecoins Raffle on BNB Chain Ecosystem as CZ’s Push Mints Millionaires

BNB Chain now accounts for 11.4% of global meme coin activity, nearly catching Ethereum’s 12%, while Solana, long the dominant meme venue, has slowed.

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Policy

Bank of England Plans Exemptions to Stablecoin Limits: Bloomberg

The BoE will grant waivers to some businesses like crypto exchanges that need to hold large amounts of the tokens.

Bank of England (Robert Bye / Unsplash / Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

IREN Declines 6% on $875M Convertible Note Offering

The hot-handed bitcoin miner turned high-performance computing play could raise as much as $1 billion in the note sale.

Data center servers (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

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Finance

CleanCore's Dogecoin Treasury Tops 710M Tokens, Booking $20M+ Gain

The company has been acquiring DOGE since early September using proceeds from a $175 million private placement.

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Markets

Bitcoin Dips to $122K as Crypto Rally Gets Overheated. What Next?

The pullback was a broad one, with altcoins like SOL, ADA, and XRP suffering even steeper declines.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)