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

Coinbase, Robinhood Hit Record Highs as U.S. House Passes Landmark Crypto Legislation

Crypto-linked stocks climbed higher on Thursday bolstered by investor optimism on stablecoin and crypto market structure bills advancing.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Tech

Wyoming Tests Instant Payments with State-Issued Stablecoin on Avalanche-Based Hashfire

The exercise aims to showcase how stablecoins and blockchain rails can cut government vendor payments from weeks to seconds.

Cheyenne, Wyoming (Pete Alexopoulos/Unsplash)

Finance

Adam Back's Bitcoin Treasury Firm to Go Public with 30K BTC and $1.5B in Buying Power

Named Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, or BSTR, the company is coming public via a SPAC merger with Brandon Lutnick's Cantor Equity Partners 1.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Markets

Dogecoin Finds Another Corporate Treasury as Bit Origin Aims to Raise $500M to Build DOGE Stake

The Singapore-based, Nasdaq-listed nanocap said it would be first company on a major U.S. exchange to make DOGE its core treasury asset.

Banks in Singapore (Aditya Chinchure/Unsplash)

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Finance

Semler Scientific Becomes 14th-Largest Public Bitcoin Holder After $25M BTC Buy

The company from July 3 to July 16 added 210 bitcoin, bringing its total stack to 4,846 coins.

BTC bulls look to scale key resistance. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

XRP Nears Record High of $3.40 as Futures Open Interest Hits $10B

The token has climbed more than 10% over the past 24 hours and 34% over the past seven days.

(Minku Kang/Unsplash+)

Markets

Bitcoin Consolidates Below Record High, With Everyone From Shrimps to Whales Accumulating

On-chain data shows almost every wallet group is stacking BTC, with smaller holders alone now absorbing more than the monthly issuance.

Trend Accumulation Score by Cohort (Glassnode)

Policy

DPRK-Linked Hacks Drive Potential Record Year for Crypto Thefts, Chainalysis Says

Hackers have already stolen $2.17 billion from crypto companies this year, more than was swindled throughout the entirety of 2024 — and it’s only July.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un (Getty Images/Contributor)

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Tech

Coinbase Wallet Becomes ‘Base App’ in Major Rebrand

The company is introducing a suite of consumer and developer tools that expands the Base App's scope far beyond its origins as an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin's 4-Year Cycles May Be Over as the Asset Matures, K33 Analysts Say

Macroeconomic forces matter more now for BTC than the quadrennial mining reward halvings.

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