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

Metaplanet Brings Bitcoin Holdings to More Than 20K With Latest Purchase

The firm Monday announced a modest acquisition of 136 BTC.

Rising candle chart on monitor screen (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

Finance

CoinShares to Go Public in U.S. Through $1.2B SPAC Deal With Vine Hill

Europe’s largest digital asset manager by market share will shift its listing from Sweden to Nasdaq.

CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti (CoinShares)

Markets

Bybit Resumes Full Crypto Trading in India After Paying $1M Fine, Securing Compliance

The exchange had suspended most services in January 2025 due to operating without proper registration under anti-money laundering rules.

Bybit lost roughly $1.5 billion in crypto to a theft Friday. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Markets

Worldcoin’s WLD Surges 25% as $250M Treasury Deal Fuels Momentum

More than 530,000 new users verified in the past seven days, the highest jump in weeks, lifting the total above 33.5 million.

(Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Tether CEO Dismisses Suggestions Company Sold Bitcoin to Buy Gold

Paolo Ardoino said Tether, issuer of the world's largest stablecoin USDT, "didn't sell any bitcoin."

Tether 's logo painted on a wooden background.

Finance

Bitcoin and Stablecoins Dominate as India, U.S. Top 2025 Crypto Adoption Index

USDT and USDC continue to lead global stablecoin flows, but EURC and PYUSD are rising fast as institutional rails expand

Indian flag (Naveed Ahmed/Unsplash)

Tech

Popular DEX Hyperliquid Moves Forward to Launch Proprietary Stablecoin

A proprietary stablecoin could reduce Hyperliquid's dependency on USDC and potentially capture a part of the revenues from reserve assets.

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

Finance

SOL Strategies Wins Nasdaq Listing, Shares to Trade Under ‘STKE’

The Toronto-listed digital asset firm is focused on the Solana blockchain and will continue to trade there under the HODL symbol.

Solana sign and logo

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Markets

Ether Enthusiasm Cools as ETFs Shed $505M in 4-Day Slide

The spot bitcoin ETFs saw $284 millions of inflows over the same period, signaling a stark divergence in investor sentiment.

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Markets

Ether Leads Crumbling Crypto Prices in Shocking Reversal From Early Rally

Soft U.S. jobs numbers released Friday cemented the case for an imminent Fed rate cut and provided what turned out to be only a brief jolt higher to crypto markets.

Ether has fallen below a key bull market trendline.  (Eva Blue/Unsplash)