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

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ICP and RNDR Lead Losses as Index Slips 2.2%

ICP dropped by 5.3% and RNDR fell by 4.1% in overnight trading.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-08-01: Laggards

Markets

Fed Holds Policy Steady, Expresses More Caution Than Expected on September Rate Cut

Prior to today's meeting, markets had priced in a 100% chance of a rate cut at the bank's September meeting.

Federal Reserve Board Building (AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia)

Markets

Bitcoin Price Shrugs Off Latest $2B Mt. Gox Transfer as Distribution Nears Its End

Bitcoin holdings of Mt. Gox wallets are down to $3 billion from $9 billion a month ago, Arkham data shows.

Mt. Gox Creditor Kolin Burges confronts Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP and SOL Outperform as Index Climbs 1.3%

Ripple's XRP gained 3.5%, while Solana's SOL rose 2.6%

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

California DMV Puts 42M Car Titles on the Avalanche Network in Digitization Push

Developed by Oxhead Alpha, the system will let users transfer vehicle titles in minutes and without going to an office versus the two week time frame in the traditional system.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Key Interest Rate Decisions Coming This Week From Fed, BOJ, BOE

The Fed is expected to hold policy steady but indicate a soon-to-come rate cut, while the Bank of England is seen as about a 50/50 bet to ease and the Bank of Japan is likely to either hike rates or signal an imminent move.

(Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images)

Markets

Ether ETFs Saw $340M of Negative Outflows in Their First Week

More than $1.5 billion of exits from Grayscale's high-fee Ethereum Trust more than offset inflows into the other spot products.

outflows (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Tumbles Below $67K as U.S. Government Moves $2B of 'Silk Road' Tokens

The government is the owner of about $12 billion worth of seized bitcoin, according to Arkham Intelligence.

Bitcoin price on July 29 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Pulls Back Sharply After Touching $70K

The price of bitcoin still appears poised to close out July with sizable gains after plunging below $54,000 earlier in the month.

Bitcoin price 7/29 (CoinDesk)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: BCH's 21% Surge Leads Index Gain

Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin lead the charge as the CoinDesk 20 Index climbs 3% since Friday's close.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)