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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Tech

The Protocol: Staked ETH exit queue moves down to zero

Also: Neobanks trending, DVT staking proposal and Solayer $35M fund

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Finance

Fast-food chain Steak n Shake to pay hourly workers a bitcoin bonus

This follows news from a few days ago that the company added $10 million worth of bitcoin to its corporate treasury.

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Finance

Ondo Finance Brings 200+ Tokenized U.S. Stocks and ETFs to Solana

The expansion comes as tokenized real-world assets continue to gain traction across crypto markets.

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Markets

Wall Street analyst defends Michael Saylor's Strategy after stock trades 64% below his lofty price target

Analyst Lance Vitanza noted the role of the company’s preferred equity in last week’s $2.1 billion bitcoin purchase.

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Tech

Vitalik Buterin proposes simpler ‘distributed validator’ staking for Ethereum

The aim is to make staking more resilient while dramatically reducing technical complexity for large ETH holders.

Vitalik Buterin (CoinDesk)

Tech

Blockchain technology can accelerate global GDP growth, Citizens says

The bank said the technology is shifting from experimentation to real-world deployment, with implications for capital markets, governments and global GDP.

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Markets

Chainlink is one of crypto’s most undervalued infrastructure bets: Bitwise

Chainlink is a dominant software platform quietly powering stablecoins, tokenization, DeFi and institutional adoption across crypto, said Matt Hougan.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Not all crypto is equal: Schwab maps where the money actually is in digital assets

A new report from Schwab breaks crypto into 3 layers — networks, infrastructure and products – and says most value is still concentrated at the base.

Charles Schwab building (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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Finance

Chainlink expands data streams to cover multitrillion-dollar U.S. stock market

The upgrade uses a "pull" model for sub-second updates, allowing more advanced trading logic and avoiding high gas costs.

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Markets

Bitcoin plunges below $90,000 amid global risk asset selloff

Ether is the worst performer among the major cryptos, down more than 6% over the past 24 hours and tumbling below $3,000.

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