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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Tech

Ethereum Foundation’s Aya Miyaguchi Leaving Executive Director Role

Miyaguchi shared in a blog post that she will stay at the foundation and serve as its new president.

Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Crypto Asset Manager Bitwise Bolsters Balance Sheet With $70M Equity Raise

The raise was led by Electric Capital and included participation from MassMutual, Highland Capital, Haun Ventures and ParaFi Capital

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Tech

Ethereum Layer-2 Starknet Gets First Gaming App-Chain

Nums, a sequential game built off of Starknet’s technology, is the first layer-3 to settle on the network.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Markets

Bitcoin Likely to Head Even Lower, but Seeds of Next Bull Move Are Being Sown

The interest rate outlook has gotten appreciably softer over the past couple of weeks.

De NIro and Pesci

Finance

Multicoin Leads $8M Investment in GPS Alternative Geodnet

The hyper-accurate location network provides mapping data down to the size of a golf ball

drone, delivery

Tech

Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Goes Live on ‘Holesky’ Testnet, but Fails to Finalize

The upgrade was pushed out on Monday, but it wasn't entirely clear why the test network was not finalizing.

The latest Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is partly named after Electra, one of the "seven sisters" in the star constellation known as Pleiades, shown in an artistic rendering here inside the ring of circles. (Wikipedia)

Markets

Bitcoin Slips Under $94K as Stocks Try to Shake Last Week's Jitters

Macro uncertainty combined with carnage in most of the rest of crypto is weighing bitcoin down.

COLD STORAGE: A polar bear on the archipelago of Svalbard, where the Bitcoin Core code repository will be kept in an abandoned mineshaft. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finance

Citadel Plans Crypto Market-Making Business: Bloomberg

The company had previously been wary, but the friendlier U.S. regulatory outlook has that stance.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Finance

Chintai Tokenizes $570M Real Estate Cash-Flow for RealNOI

The platform gives investors access to cash flows of nearly 1,900 apartments, while helping property owners access capital.

Chintai

Markets

Wall Street-Backed Crypto Exchange EDX Markets Adds 17 New Cryptocurrencies, Including XRP, SOL, Trump Coin

The expansion significantly broadens trading options for users, reflecting a friendlier regulatory environment in the U.S.

 Wall Street-backed crypto exchange EDX Markets expands cryptocurrency offering as it gets ready for growing institutional demand. (Unsplash)