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

Trump Media Discloses $2B Bitcoin Stack

The company roughly two months ago completed a capital raise of $2.5 billion with intensions on building a bitcoin treasury.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking Friday in the White House's East Room ahead of signing the GENIUS Act into law. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Michael Saylor's Strategy Added Another $740M of Bitcoin Last Week

The company stack now stands at 607,770 BTC worth roughly at $72 billion at bitcoin's current price just above $118,000.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor in 2021 (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Insurance Broker Native Introduces ‘Risk Collective’ Backed by Lloyd’s Underwriters

The Native Risk Collective brings together Lloyd’s of London underwriters Mosaic Insurance and Chaucer, with security vendors to set a new standard for digital asset insurance.

Native leaders: In order from left to right, these are James Asaad (Chairman), Dan Ross (CTO) and Ben David (CEO). (Native)

Markets

Gordon Brown Redux? UK Reportedly Mulls Sale of 5B Pounds in Bitcoin

Facing a budget hole of perhaps 20 billion pounds, the country's Home Office is working with the police to perhaps sell billions of seized crypto, according to The Telegraph.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Bullish Files for U.S. IPO

The company plans a NYSE listing under the ticker “BLSH.”

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Policy

Trump Signs GENIUS Act Into Law, Elevating First Major Crypto Effort to Become Policy

President Donald Trump made it official during a White House ceremony, affixing a signature to the stablecoin regulation bill before a crowd of crypto insiders.

President Trump at GENIUS bill signing (Nik De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Slips Below $118K, ETH, XRP Pare Big Gains, but Rally Remains on Firm Ground, Says Coinbase

Expect pullbacks, but there's not yet the type of runaway speculation associated with tops, Coinbase analysts said.

Bitcoin price on July 18 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Chainlink's LINK Gains on Joining SEC Crypto Task Force's Tokenization Initiative

Chainlink Labs is among the digital asset projects that have been admitted to help the regulator set frameworks for compliant asset tokenization.

Chainlink (LINK) (CoinDesk)

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Markets

BONK Slumps 8% as Sellers Overwhelm Market After Brief Bounce

BONK fell after hitting resistance, with volume spiking to 2.16 trillion tokens

BONK-USD, July 18 2025 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Demand Driven by Institutional Buying in U.S., Coinbase Premium Shows

The ETH/Coinbase premium, which tracks the price difference between ETH on Coinbase and Binance flipped positive this week.

(Hans Eiskonen/Unsplash)