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

Blur, Tensor Tokens Dip After NFT Marketplace OpenSea Receives SEC Wells Notice

The U.S. regulator alleged that NFTs sold on OpenSea are securities, the OpenSea CEO said earlier Wednesday.

BLUR price on Aug. 28 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Spot ETF Flows Have Underwhelmed Versus Bitcoin: JPMorgan

Spot ether exchange-traded funds have seen net outflows of $500M since their launch, the report said.

(Shutterstock)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Tumbles 3.2%, With RNDR the Only Asset to Advance

RNDR was the lone gainer while MATIC and NEAR suffered steep losses of 8.9% and 7.5% respectively.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-08-28: laggards

Tech

Maker, Now Rebranded to Sky, Draws Ire From DeFi Community on Controversial Stablecoin Change

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen said the feature won't be live when the USDS token goes live and the old DAI token will remain in circulation unchanged.

(Jacob Lund/Shutterstock)

Finance

BlackRock Lists Ethereum ETF on Brazilian Stock Exchange

The company earlier this year listed its iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF in the South American country.

BlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) coming to Brazil’s B3 exchange (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Slides Below $62K as Consolidation Drags on, but Traders Eye Possible Parabolic Rally

More than five months of sideways price action is testing investors' patience, but similar low-volatility episodes led to break-outs to new record prices, one observer noted.

Bitcoin price on Aug. 27 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Nasdaq Looks to Offer Bitcoin Options, Following Rival NYSE’s Plans

The proposed Nasdaq Bitcoin Index Options would track the CME CF Bitcoin Real-Time Index.

Nasdaq is seeking approval from regulators to allow the launch and trading of options tied to the price of bitcoin. (Shutterstock)

CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: UNI and LINK Decline as Index Slips 1.9%

Uniswap's token drops 3.7%, and Chainlink closely follows, contributing to the CoinDesk 20's overnight slide.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-08-27: laggards

Markets

PayPal's Stablecoin Hits $1B Market Cap as Incentives Boost Activity on Solana

The payments company's stablecoin entry was off to a slow start last year on Ethereum, but its recent expansion to the Solana blockchain and DeFi reward programs reignited the token's growth.

A large PayPal logo is on display outside its corporate HQ (Shutterstock)

Markets

Tokenized Treasury Funds Pass $2B Market Cap Amid BlackRock’s Explosive Growth

BlackRock's BUIDL has quickly topped $500 million in market cap.

Tokenized Treasury funds passed $2 billion in market cap on Saturday. (Source: RWA.xyz)