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

Crypto’s Fentanyl Trade Worth Tens of Millions: Security Researchers

Reports from Chainalysis and Elliptic point to the trade for fentanyl precursors and fentanyl itself being fueled by crypto.

Crypto flows to China-based fentanyl precursor suppliers (Chainalysis)

Policy

Upstream Data Sues Crusoe Energy Over Waste Gas Mining Patent

The case involves two companies who aim to power mining rigs through the excess natural gas that comes as a result of oil well drilling.

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia.

Finance

Num Finance Raises $1.5M, Will Expand Stablecoins in Latin America, Middle East

Decentralized finance protocol Num Finance will offer stablecoins in Brazilian real, Colombian peso, Mexican peso and Bahrain dinar within the next month.

(Shutterstock)

Policy

U.S. Treasury Sanctions North Korean-Owned Binance Wallets; Says Entities Used Funds to Support WMD Programs

The Binance-hosted wallets received more than $2 million worth of various cryptocurrencies that were then sent on to North Korean entities, OFAC alleged

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Jumps to Key Price Resistance as Hong Kong Opens Crypto Trading for Retail Investors

The crypto's short-term outlook also may depend on the ongoing U.S. debt ceiling drama.

(Ellen Qin/Unsplash)

Finance

Multicoin Leads $2.3M FastLane VC Deal, Continuing Its Bet on MEV Infrastructure

The crypto-focused investment firm has now backed three projects centered around maximal extractable value (MEV), a way for validators to earn extra money from traders.

Multicoin's Kyle Samani (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Dash Blockchain Halts, Binance Pool Suspends Mining Rewards

The blockchain behind oldest privacy coin stopped after a failed hard fork, with the chain reportedly split in two.

(Henrik Sorensen/GettyImages)

Finance

Seeking Grants Deal with Osmosis, Privacy Blockchain Namada Proposes Airdrop

Ahead of its mainnet launch Namada’s builders are trying to ink an array of tech and token partnerships.

Osmosis Labs co-founder Sunny Aggarwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

U.S. Debt Deal Could Weigh On Bitcoin Price, Some Say

The Treasury's efforts to build back cash balances after resolution of the debt limit situation might suck out dollar liquidity from system, pushing bitcoin lower.

US Capital building (Matt Anderson/Getty Images)

Markets

Demand for Tokenized Treasury Bonds Soars as Crypto Investors Chase TradFi Yield

The combined market capitalization of tokenized money market funds is nearing $500 million as high yields in traditional markets attract crypto capital.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)