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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Policy

SEC's Paul Atkins grilled on crypto enforcement pull-back, including with Justin Sun, Tron

The U.S. agency's chairman said in a House hearing that he's open to a confidential briefing for lawmakers on the topic.

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Markets

JPMorgan bullish on crypto for rest of year as institutional flows set to drive recovery

After bitcoin fell below its estimated production cost, the bank said stronger fundamentals and rising institutional inflows could lift crypto in 2026.

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Finance

Institutional crypto platform BlockFills said to halt withdrawals, restrict trading

It's shades of 2022, when any number of crypto platforms were forced to suspend withdrawals as prices crumbled.

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Markets

Cryptos crumble, bitcoin falls through $66,000, as Friday's bounce fades

With so many other asset markets in rally mode, investors for the moment appear to have moved on from crypto.

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Markets

BlackRock takes first DeFi step, lists BUIDL on Uniswap as UNI jumps 25%

BlackRock will make shares of its $2.2 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury fund tradable on the decentralized exchange Uniswap.

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Markets

Analysts react as Robinhood slumps 10%, with slowdown in crypto trading weighing on results

JPMorgan and Compass Point were among the sell-side teams trimming price targets on HOOD.

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Markets

Bithumb admits to ‘serious flaws’ that left internal systems vulnerable to potential sabotage

The South Korean crypto exchange’s CEO Le Jae-won said the lack of proper controls led to the erroneous transfer of bitcoin worth more than $40 billion to customers. Most has been recovered.

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Markets

U.S. added stronger than expected 130,000 jobs in January, with unemployment rate falling to 4.3%

Down sizably ahead of the jobs data, bitcoin rose modestly to $67,500 following the news.

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Finance

Binance teams up with Franklin Templeton to use tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral

Institutions can now use Benji-issued tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral to trade on Binance using Ceffu’s custody layer.

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Finance

Spark looks to build a safe bridge between onchain capital and TradFi

Spark is opening access to its $9 billion stablecoin liquidity pool for hedge funds and other institutions to bridge onchain capital with off-chain credit markets.

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