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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Chainlink Introduces CRE to Fast-Track Institutional Tokenization

CRE enables smart contracts that work across blockchains and tap into legacy financial messaging standards, with access to Chainlink's services.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Технології

Olas Launches Pearl v1, the First 'AI Agent App Store'

The new platform lets users own and control autonomous artificial intelligence agents, aiming to shift power from centralized AI providers to individuals.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

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U.S. Sanctions North Korean Bankers Over Crypto Laundering Tied to Cyberattacks

The Treasury Department sanctioned eight individuals and two entities accused of using crypto and shell companies to funnel millions into Pyongyang’s weapons programs.

North Korean flags waving in the wind.

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Bitcoin Treasury Firm Bubble Comes Full Circle as Sequans Unloads BTC to Cut Debt

Sequans sold 970 Bitcoin to redeem half of its convertible debt, reducing total liabilities from $189 million to $94.5 million.

SQNS Share Price (TradingView)

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MARA Holdings Outlines AI and Energy Shift with MPLX LOI; Q3 Results Impress

MPLX will supply natural gas from its Delaware Basin processing plants to MARA’s planned gas-fired power facilities.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

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Wall Street's Biggest IREN Bull Hiked Price Target to $142 After $9.7B Microsoft AI Deal

The bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure play received three price target raises following yesterday's news, including from Bernstein, which lifted to $125.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)

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Ripple Acquires Crypto Wallet Firm Palisade to Expand Institutional Payments Business

With the acquisition, Ripple aims to provide quickly-deployable wallets to boost fintech and corporate crypto payments, president Monica Long said in an interview.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Slides Below $106K as Cryptos Tumble, Nearing October Crash Lows

The downturn in prices rippled across derivatives markets, liquidating over $1 billion in leveraged trading positions across all digital assets Monday, CoinGlass data showed.

A bear roars

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Strive Proposes High-Yield Preferred Stock to Expand Bitcoin Holdings

The preferred shares, dubbed SATA, are set to carry an initial 12% annual dividend, payable monthly in cash.

Bitcoin (modified by CoinDesk)

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Tharimmune Stock Gains 30%, on $540M Capital Raise to Build Canton Coin Treasury Strategy

The nanocap biotech firm is pivoting into digital assets with a $540 million raise to build a canton coin–based treasury, backed by DRW and Liberty City Ventures.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)