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

Bitcoin to Account for 7% of Global Wealth, Surge in Price to $13M in 21 Years: Michael Saylor

The crypto would require an average annual return of 29% between now and 2045 to reach that level, he said.

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Bitcoin Magazine)

Tech

Bitcoin Layer 2 Rootstock Verifies Zero-Knowledge SNARK

Rootstock verified the SNARK using BitVMX, which is Rootstock's modified version of BitVM

16:9 Roots (PDPhotos/Pixabay)

Finance

Ledger Unveils Second New Wallet of 2024

"Ledger Flex", like the Stax wallet which launched in May, incorporates touchscreen technology to "redefine the experience of self-custody," CEO Pascal Gauthier said

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RNDR's 12% Gain Leads as Index Rebounds

CoinDesk 20 Index jumped 4.4% fueled by RNDR's 12.6% rise and NEAR's 7.7% advance.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-26: leaders

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Broad-Based Decline Hits All 20 Assets, Sending Index Lower by 4.4%

The CoinDesk 20 fell nearly 100 points in overnight trading, with all assets in the red, including a 6.6% drop in ETH.

9am CoinDesk 20 Update for 2024-07-25 - laggards

Markets

Bitcoin Holds Up as Tech Stocks Plunge, Ether Sinks a Day After ETF Launch

Solana's SOL and Ripple's XRP were notable outperformers.

Bitcoin price on July 24 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Rewards App Fold Eyes Nasdaq Listing Via $365M SPAC Deal

The post-transaction entity will also have more than 1,000 BTC ($67 million) on its balance sheet

16:9 Fold (FotoRieth/Pixabay)

Markets

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP and NEAR Help Push Index Upward

XRP and NEAR lead today's CoinDesk 20 gains with 5.6% and 3.3% increases, respectively.

CoinDesk 20 leaders (CoinDesk Indices)

Markets

Ether ETFs See $107M Inflows on Day One as Trading Volume Tops $1B

Daily cumulative net inflow hit $106.78 million, with most ETFs in the green on the first day of trading.

(TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Finance

BlackRock's $500M Tokenized Fund Pitches for Ethena's RWA Investment Plan; ENA Rallies 22%

Ethena's proposal to allocate funds to tokenized real-world assets for yield follows similar actions by crypto lender MakerDAO and Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum's development organization.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)