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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Policy

NYAG Sues 2 Crypto Pyramid Schemes, Promoters Targeting Haitian-Americans in $1B Scam

NovaTech’s founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion allegedly preyed on Creole-speaking church-goers and advertised their scheme as a way to gain “freedom from the plantation.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Tech

Decentralized Exchange SushiSwap Goes Live on Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock

Rootstock's goal is to combine the security of the Bitcoin network with the smart contract capabilities of Ethereum

16:9 Sushi (Willy Sietsma/Pixabay)

Finance

Robinhood to Buy Crypto Exchange Bitstamp in Effort to Expand Outside the U.S.

The all-cash deal is valued at $200 million and is expected to close in the first half of 2025.

Johann Kerbrat (on left), GM of Robinhood Crypto (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Options Traders Anticipate Imminent Breakout Above $74K to New Record Prices

One market observer noted "very concentrated call buying" looking to profit from a rally to between $74,000 and $80,000 by the end of this month.

A rocket launching. (United Launch Alliance / U.S. Air Force)

Policy

Binance Asks UK Competition Tribunal to Throw Out Most of Collusion Case: Reuters

The case relates to the delisting of the BSV token in 2019.

(Artur Tumasjan / Unsplash)

Markets

Bank of Canada Begins G-7 Monetary Easing Cycle, Trimming Benchmark Rate 25 Basis Points

Bitcoin prices could receive a tailwind from lower interest rates in developed economies.

Canada's regulatory situation is both clear and more conservative than in the U.S. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

Markets

Uniswap, Starknet, BNB Lead Altcoin Gains as Bitcoin Hits $71K

Seventeen of the twenty assets in the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) booked gains, underscoring the uptrend in the broader crypto market.

Uniswap (UNI) price on June 4 (CoinDesk)

Markets

BODEN Token Up Over 10%, TREMP Gains 5% After Kraken Lists Solana PoliFi Duo

BODEN appears to be the winner as first exchange open to U.S. residents lists the election-themed tokens.

(White House, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin ETFs Resume Inflow Winning Streak; BlackRock's IBIT Crosses $20B in AUM

After a period of flat to negative flows, the spot ETFs have added $2.4 billion in assets over the past month, according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence.

Scrabble tiles spelling out "ETF GROWTH"