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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Finance

New Jersey's Bergen County to Tokenize $240B in Real Estate Deeds on Avalanche Network

The wealthy New York City suburb will migrate 370,000 property deeds — representing about $240 billion worth of real estate — onto an immutable, searchable blockchain ledger.

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

EToro Adds DOGE, XRP, SHIB and 9 Others in U.S. Crypto Push After Nasdaq Debut

The trading platform now offers 15 tokens in the U.S., expanding access as it settles into life as a public company.

EToro (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

Conduit Raises $36M to Expand Stablecoin-Based Cross-Border Payments Beyond SWIFT

Stablecoins are one of the fastest-growing sectors in crypto and an increasingly popular tool for global payments, attracting interest from venture capital investments.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Privacy Crypto Dero Targeted With New Self-Spreading Malware

The malware spread like a worm and spawned malicious containers after infecting fresh devices.

A hooded figure sits typing on a laptop in a darkened (Pixabay)

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Tech

Square Pilots Real-Time Bitcoin Payments in Vegas, Plans Full Availability to Customers in 2026

The feature would still need regulatory approval in order to be made available to all customers.

Apple Pay image via Wikimedia Commons

Markets

KindlyMD Acquires 21 Bitcoin Ahead of Merger with Nakamoto

The firm now symbolically owns one millionth of the total bitcoin circulating supply, but its objective is to have one million BTC.

A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin, is displayed in Graphisoft Park on September 22, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. The statue's creators, Reka Gergely and Tamas Gilly, used anonymized facial features, as Nakamoto's true identify remains unconfirmed. (Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

Markets

Can Bitcoin Break Conference Curse at This Week's Las Vegas Event?

Bitcoin has been on a heater over the past few weeks, but previous years' conferences have proven to be decent selling opportunities.

Bull and bear (Shutterstock)

Markets

SharpLink Gaming Soars 400% as Joseph Lubin's Consensys Leads $425M Funding for ETH Treasury Strategy

The Ethereum co-founder will also be joining the SharpLink board as its chairman.

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the CEO of ConsenSys, speaks at SXSW 2019.

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Finance

Wall Street Giant Cantor Debuts Bitcoin Lending Business With First Tranches to FalconX, Maple

The financing will help Maple Finance, a major crypto lending platform itself, to speed up its growth, CEO Sidney Powell said.

Brandon Lutnick (CoinDesk)

Markets

Trump Media Raising $2.5B for Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

With the move, the operator of Truth Social is joining a growing roster of publicly-traded firms to raise capital for buying crypto assets like bitcoin.

Head and shoulders photo of U.S. President Donald Trump standing behind a microphone.