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

Crypto Investment Products Saw $2.2B of Inflows in 2023: CoinShares

A mundane year of flows turned nicely higher in the final quarter of last year as excitement rose surrounding spot bitcoin ETFs.

Crypto asset flows (CoinShares)

Markets

Coinbase Buckles 10% as Crypto Stocks Falter Despite Bitcoin Topping $45K

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy was a rare crypto name moving higher on Tuesday.

Coinbase share price (TradingView)

Markets

Jim Cramer Capitulates on Bitcoin: 'Technological Marvel … It's Here to Stay'

The Mad Money Host three months ago was highly bearish on the world's largest cryptocurrency.

Jim Cramer

Markets

Bitcoin Spot ETF Anticipation Boosts BTC Price to Nearly $46K in Strong Start to 2024

Speculation has been growing that regulatory approval for a U.S.-based spot bitcoin ETF is coming this week.

rocket lifting off

Markets

Who Won Crypto in 2023? The CoinDesk Market Index Broken Down in 6 Charts

Tokens from Injective, a layer-1 blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, and Render, a GPU rendering network that migrated this year to Solana from Ethereum, dominated the year's return rankings among the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) benchmark index of 184 digital assets.

Ranking Assets for 2024 Performance (Shutterstock)

Policy

SEC Chair Gary Gensler: 'Far Too Many Frauds and Bankruptcies'

The Securities and Exchange Commission chief shared his views on the crypto industry.

Gary Gensler's SEC must now decide what to do about multiple applications for BTC and ETH ETFs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stacks' STX Soars 27% on Positive Comments From Tim Draper

The venture capitalist believes applications built on bitcoin will perform similarly to how Microsoft applications did in the internet boom.

Venture Capitalist Tim Draper (CoinDesk TV)

Markets

Bitcoin Spot ETF Biggest Development on Wall Street in Last 30 Years, Says Michael Saylor

A large increase in demand coupled with lower supply should set the stage for higher prices in 2024, he predicted.

Michael Saylor, executive director, MicroStrategy (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Finance

Real-World Assets Build on Solana as Ondo Finance Expands Tokenized Treasury Offering

The combined market cap of tokenized Treasuries mushroomed to over $760 million from $110 million earlier this year, according to RWA.xyz data.

a hundred dollar bill

Markets

Crypto Market Outlooks for 2024 from a16z, Fidelity, Coinbase, Pantera and More

Also among those gazing into next year are Bitwise, VanEck and Hashdex.

Checking the crystal ball for 2024 (Michael Dziedzic, Unsplash)