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 Breaks to Low End of Trading Range, but June Data Could Be Next Catalyst

Barring a big late move, May will still go down as a strong month for the world's largest crypto.

Bitcoin dips, but macro questions might soon be answered (Emily Morter/Unsplash)

Policy

Sen. Warren Wants to Know How Drug Agencies Are Pursuing Crypto Ties to Fentanyl

The Massachusetts Democrat called for answers from the U.S. drug agencies today on progress in the crackdown on drug traffickers' use of crypto.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding to know what U.S. authorities are doing about Iranian crypto mining. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Finance

Franklin Templeton's Jenny Johnson on Bitcoin ETFs, RWA Tokenization and Blockchain's Potential for TradFi

The president and CEO of the asset management giant said blockchains are "transformational tech" that can help drive down operational costs during a panel discussion at Consensus 2024.

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton President and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Aptos Integrates Chainlink's CCIP and Data Feeds to Boost Decentralized App Development

Aptos will be the first blockchain that uses the Move coding language to integrate Chainlink's services, according to the announcement at Consensus 2024 in Austin.

Aptos founders Mo Shaikh, left, and Avery Ching (Aptos Labs)

Policy

NYDFS Issues New Crypto Firm Guidance for Consumer Complaints

The regulator wants digital asset providers to include policies which cover response and resolution monitoring and reporting.

Adrienne Harris (NYDFS)

Finance

Bitcoin Staking Project Babylon Raises $70M Led by Paradigm

The funding round included contributions from Polychain Capital and the venture arm of crypto exchange and CoinDesk parent company Bullish

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

Web3 Digital Identity Network Galxe Crafts Own Layer-1 Blockchain Gravity

Gravity's first iteration will go live this June, with plans for the final version with staking and restaking to launch in the second quarter of 2025.

Galxe's Gravity network (Galxe)

Consensus Magazine

How Gunnar Lovelace Is Trying to ‘Unf*ck’ the World

The serial entrepreneur and ethical capitalist’s latest effort at civil disobedience is being previewed at Consensus 2024.

Early concept art from UNFK's Jamie Dimon prank campaign. (UNFK)

Markets

Trader Buys 2M Dogecoin Call Options as Meme Coin Market Heats Up

The options will expire on June 14 and have a strike price of $0.22 or about 31% higher than the current price.

DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)

Finance

Crypto Wallet Firm Fordefi Expands in Indonesia Powering Pintu Web3 Self-Custodial Wallet

The move is part of Fordefi's plan to extend its wallet service mostly used by institutional investors to retail-facing trading platforms.

The Fordefi team (Fordefi)