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

Institutions Are Primed for MicroStrategy's Preferred Stock Sale, Say Analysts

A "near perfect" instrument is how Bitwise's Jeff Park described the new offering.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk/Danny Nelson)

Finance

Trump Media Starts New Fintech Platform Truth.Fi Focusing on Crypto, ETFs

Truth.Fi is the latest endeavor of Donald Trump-affiliated companies into the digital asset space after World Liberty Financial and launching an "official" memecoin.

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitwise Files to Launch Dogecoin ETF

The asset manager is among a number of issuers seeking ETFs for the memecoin.

Bitwise submitted an S-1 form to the SEC, a step forward for its dogecoin ETF plans. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Quantum Startup BTQ Proposes More Energy Efficient Alternative to Crypto's Proof of Work

A new paper proposes using a method called "coarse-grained boson-sampling" to validate the proof of work process and reward successful miners.

Bitcoin ASIC miner (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

MOVE Jumps 20% on Trump-Linked World Liberty Fi Token Purchase, Musk's DOGE Involvement

"Our papers have never hit the DOGE desk," Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement Labs, told CoinDesk. "There's a lot of speculation in the rumors."

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tech

Movement Labs Unveils Developer Mainnet Ahead of February's Public Launch

The company is also introducing a multi-asset liquidity program to provide the foundation for DeFi applications

Movement Labs co-founders Cooper Scanlon and Rushi Manche (Movement Labs)

Tech

SSV DAO Unveils “SSV 2.0” Framework, Bringing bApps to Ethereum

Based applications — bApps — will be able to leverage Ethereum validators directly from the layer-1, allowing them to avoid security and centralizing risks.

SSV Network unveils its new framework, "SSV 2.0", its most ambitious plan to date (Wikipedia)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining Stocks With AI Ambition Battered 20%-30% Lower as Nvidia's Plunge Grips Crypto

The selloff could provide traders an attractive entry opportunity in higher-beta altcoins such as Solana's SOL, which endured a double-digit pullback, one analyst said.

Core Scientific facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Markets

Bitcoin's DeepSeek-Triggered Selloff Is a Buy the Dip Opportunity, Analysts Say

Overzealous hopes for Trump's crypto actions last week had primed the market for a pullback, but the decline could be already over, said Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick.

While some analysts warn of a deeper pullback, Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick said it's a buying opportunity(Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash)

Markets

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Pardoned by President Trump

The Silk Road founder in 2015 had been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Ross Ulbricht set to be freed from prison (CoinDesk Archives)