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

Binance’s Market Share Fell Further in June

The crypto exchange still remains the world’s largest by a significant proportion.

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Finance

Mastercard Is Piloting Tokenized Bank Deposits in New UK Testbed

The company is launching what it calls a Multi-Token Network (MTN), which will begin by testing tokenized bank deposits and move onto experiments using stablecoins and CBDCs.

(Alina Kuptsova/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: First Leveraged Bitcoin ETF in U.S. Trades $5.5M on Day One

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 28, 2023.

(Wance Paleri/Unsplash)

Finance

Maple Finance Expands to Direct Lending Targeting Web3 Firms

The firm aspires to fill the gap in crypto lending left by the implosion of centralized lenders such as BlockFi and Genesis.

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance (Maple Finance)

Finance

Bitpanda Pro Rebrands, Raises $33M in Peter Thiel-Led Round

The crypto exchange has split from Bitpanda and now operates as One Trading.

Bitpanda Pro CEO Joshua Barraclough (Bitpanda)

Finance

Latin American Crypto Firm Ripio Approved to Operate in Spain as an Exchange

It’s the latest in a number of licenses to crypto companies granted by the Bank of Spain.

Sebastian Serrano, fundador y CEO de Ripio. (Archivo de CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Briefly Pushes Above $31K After Fidelity Spot ETF Report

Fidelity previously applied for a spot bitcoin ETF in 2021, but the effort was rejected by the SEC.

Fidelity Investments sign (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Crypto Funds See Largest Inflow in a Year

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for June 27, 2023.

BBitcoin faces headwinds (Pixabay)

Markets

Crypto Exchange OKX Goes Live With ‘Nitro Spreads,’ Allowing One-Click Basis Trading

Basis traders attempt to earn returns by trading the difference in an asset’s price on two separate markets.

(Unsplash, Kanchanara)

Policy

FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B

Commingling and misuse of customer funds occurred from the start at FTX, says current CEO John J. Ray III, and senior executives knew of the shortfall as early as August 2022.

(Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk)