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

Headline CPI Expected to Have Spiked Higher in August, but Core Rate Seen Slowing

The U.S. government on Wednesday morning will release its latest official inflation data.

The April inflation report was released Wednesday morning (JLGutierrez/Getty Images)

Markets

Trading Firms Deposit Millions in BTC, ETH and ARB to Exchanges as Crypto Sell-Off Intensifies

Bitcoin slid to a three-month low on Monday and ether tumbled to its weakest level since March.

(Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Drops Below $25K With Altcoins Bracing for Deeper Crash from FTX Crypto Sale

Alternative cryptocurrencies could take a hit as FTX looks to shed its $3.4 billion stash of digital assets, crypto services provider Matrixport noted.

BTC price on Sep. 11 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Maple Finance Nearly Imploded, but Sid Powell Wants to Bring Back Its Billion Dollar-Plus Glory

Last year’s crypto crash wiped out Maple Finance’s TVL as borrowers crumbled and lenders fled. In an interview with CoinDesk, the protocol’s co-founder and CEO lays out his plan for growth in an era of heightened risk management.

Maple Finance's Sid Powell (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Grayscale Ethereum Trust Discount Drops to Lowest in a Year Amid Spot Ether ETF Push

The fund's discount to NAV had ballooned to nearly 60% late in 2022.

Grayscale Ethereum Trust discount and ETH price (CryptoQuant)

Markets

Bitcoin Halving Is Nice, but Kickstarting Bull Run Requires Fiat Money Supply Growth

While bulls point to next year's halving as a bull catalyst, any sizable uptrend is likely contingent on major central banks boosting their year-on-year M2 money supply growth rates, past data show.

a hundred dollar bill

Finance

FASB's Crypto Accounting Shakeup Could Lure More Corporate Investment, Michael Saylor and Others Argue

The U.S. accounting standards board yesterday unanimously voted in favor of "fair value" accounting for crypto assets held on corporate balance sheets.

(Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Pantera Capital Leads $16.5M Investment in ZK-Powered DEX Brine Fi at $100M Valuation

The investment comes at a time when crypto venture capital has mostly dried up and trading volumes have plunged.

Brine Fi founders from left to right: Shaaran Lakshminarayanan, Ritumbhara Bhatnagar and Bhavesh Praveen (Brine Fi)

Markets

Bitcoin Little-Changed at $25.7K After Newsy and Volatile Session

Broader crypto markets were modestly lower late on Wednesday.

Bitcoin flat after volatile session (CoinDesk)

Policy

FASB Says Crypto Assets Should Be Marked at Current Values

The U.S. standard-setting organization for accounting has moved to insist companies use “fair-value” accounting to report their crypto holdings.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is issuing the first crypto-specific accounting standard for companies with digital assets. (Krisanapong Detraphiphat/Getty Images)