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.

Stephen Alpher

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Finance

ZKsync Sunsets Liquidity Rewards Program, Citing Bearish Market Conditions

The blockchain has lost around 50% of total value locked since Jan. 30.

ZKUSD (TradingView)

Finance

BlackRock's BUIDL Fund Tops $1B with Ethena's $200M Allocation

BUIDL is a key building block for multiple yield-generating offerings as a reserve asset, and it's increasingly used as collateral on trading platforms.

BlackRock headquarters (Shutterstock)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Launch New Testnet for Pectra Upgrade After Earlier Setbacks

Core developers hope the third attempt will clear the path for a major blockchain update by May.

Ether coin over price chart. (Art Rachen/Unsplash)

Markets

Tokenized Treasuries Hit Record $4.2B Market Cap as Crypto Correction Fuels Growth

Ondo Finance, BlackRock-Securitize and Superstate gained the most among the larger issuers, while Hashnote's USYC declined.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Gold Jumps to New Record, for Now Winning Debate Against Bitcoin as Risk-Off Asset

The yellow metal has risen as stocks (and bitcoin) have crumbled over the past few weeks.

Gold bar (Scottsdale mint/Unsplash)

Finance

Circle Plans to Bring $1B Tokenized Treasury Issuer Hashnote Under Bermuda License

The stablecoin issuer acquired Hashnote earlier this year with plans to expand its USYC token as collateral option for institutional investors.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Rally Doesn't Hold After Soft Inflation Data

Bitcoin managed a knee-jerk move above $84,000 after the U.S. CPI report, but returned to roughly flat for the day.

Calm waters. (Credit: Atte Grönlund, Unsplash)

Finance

Lukka and CoinDesk Indices to Offer Composite Ether Staking Rate

The CESR captures the mean annualized staking rate earned by Ethereum validators.

CESR (CoinDesk Indices)