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

PEPE Falls 2.6% After Failing to Breach Resistance Levels

Despite the drop, PEPE's derivatives market activity remains strong, with open interest reaching $560 million and trading volume at $1.2 billion.

PEPEUSD (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Stablecoin Market Surges on U.S. Regulation, With Circle's USDC Gaining Ground: JPMorgan

The bank's analysts said the GENIUS Act has fueled a 42% jump in stablecoin growth this year, with Circle’s USDC chipping away at Tether’s dominance.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

Finance

Tether Adds $1B in Bitcoin to Reserves as USDT Supply Nears $175B, Blockchain Data Shows

The crypto firm behind the largest stablecoin has been accumulating bitcoin alongside gold over the past few years.

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Markets

Bakkt Shares Still Look Cheap After 170% Rally: Benchmark

The firm has opportunities in three areas: crypto infrastructure, stablecoin payments and its bitcoin treasury strategy.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

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Markets

Tokenized Gold Market Nears $3B as Bullion Blasts to Fresh Record Highs

Tether's XAUT and Paxos' PAXG, the two largest gold-backed tokens, posted record monthly trading volumes in September as spot gold pushed above $3,800.

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Tech

Firedancer Devs From Jump Crypto Push Solana Toward Bigger Blocks

Jump Crypto’s Firedancer development team has submitted a proposal, known as SIMD-0370, that would remove the block-level compute unit limit.

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Markets

Leveraged Bitcoin Longs are Back in Force, Trading Firm Says

BTC's perpetual open interest and funding rates are rising again, QCP Capital noted.

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Markets

Bitcoin Surges Above $114K as Traders Look Ahead to 'Uptober'

Following last week's big swoon, crypto markets returned to tracking gains in stocks and gold.

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Finance

Algorand Foundation Names Former Ripple Engineer Nikolaos Bougalis CTO

The hire marks a push to scale Algorand’s tech stack and deepen the company's U.S. presence.

Algorand Foundation Launches $300M DeFi Innovation Fund

Finance

BitMine Immersion ETH Holdings Rise to 2.66M Tokens, More Than 2% of Total Supply

Crypto, cash and "moonshot" on the balance sheet now total $11.6 billion, said the company.

Ethereum (CoinDesk)