The global RAM shortage claims another victim, with Meta boosting Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices following other gadget price hikes.
Bitcoin's debate about quantum computers produced a published draft with real political consequences on Apr. 14. Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 361 (BIP 361), titled “Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset,” landed in Bitcoin's official proposal repository with a three-phase plan to phase out ECDSA and Schnorr signature spends entirely once a quantum-resistant output type exists […]
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Anthropic's Mythos threat to the crypto industry can trigger hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in sudden, irreversible losses. That is the stark reality facing digital asset markets following Anthropic’s quiet unveiling of Claude Mythos Preview, a vulnerability-seeking AI model the San Francisco startup admits is simply too dangerous to release to the […]
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After losing 63% of its value over several tough months and challenging investor confidence, XRP made a strong comeback in April. XRP’s recovery is driven by new privacy features for institutions, major retail adoption in Asia, and renewed interest in exchange-traded funds. Cryptorank data shows XRP is on track for its first positive monthly close since September […]
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X's innovations could redefine financial engagement, merging market insights with seamless trading, potentially transforming user interaction.
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance platform backed by President Donald Trump, is navigating a deepening crisis as a precipitous drop in its token price collides with a bitter public dispute involving Tron founder Justin Sun. The turbulence centers on two distinct but compounding controversies: accusations from Sun that the protocol's team used centralized […]
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Aeluma's government contracts boost its market position, potentially accelerating advancements in quantum photonics and optical communications.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders this week, bypassing the routine briefing cadence and pulling bank CEOs into a direct conversation about AI-driven cyber risk. Reports noted that the meeting aimed to ensure banks understood the risks posed by Mythos and similar models and […]
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Another mainstream attempt to identify the creator of Bitcoin has landed on Adam Back, the British cryptographer and Blockstream co-founder. This week, The New York Times published a sprawling investigation arguing that Back is the person behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym, leaning heavily on stylometric analysis of writing and decades-old online records. Back immediately and […]
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The Drift exploit and Stabble’s precautionary warning point to a difficult crypto security problem: the next major breach may begin long before funds move on-chain. That is what makes these incidents more than isolated alarms. They suggest that some protocols may still be looking for smart contract flaws, while the real exposure lies in hiring, […]
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The Cardano community has officially approved the first tranche of the Orion Fund, a venture-style initiative designed to bridge Bitcoin liquidity into its decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The governance vote unlocks 50 million ADA from the network's treasury, marking a pivotal shift in how Cardano funds its long-term economic expansion. The approval, which cleared required […]
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The state of quantum computing and what it would take to threaten Bitcoin Quantum computing has advanced materially over the past 18 months, but the field remains in the transition from noisy hardware to early fault tolerance. The key shift is away from raw physical-qubit counts and toward logical qubits, gate fidelity, runtime, and error […]
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More than 80 crypto projects formally shuttered or began winding down in the first quarter of this year. RootData’s “dead-project” archive, which tracks closures, bankruptcies, and chronic project inactivity, logged 86 casualties as of March 20. The pullback has spared almost no corner of the ecosystem, sweeping across digital wallets, NFT marketplaces, decentralized finance (DeFi) […]
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Crypto AI company OpenServ is trying to sell two things at once: an AI infrastructure story and a crypto token story. Its claim that its new model, SERV Nano, can match or beat OpenAI on some tasks has made that pitch more interesting, but they have also raised the standard of proof. The company describes […]
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Algorand has emerged as an early standout in the crypto market’s latest quantum security debate after a recent Google Quantum AI paper highlighted the blockchain as a live example of post-quantum cryptography being deployed on a network. The attention came as the paper sharpened concerns around Bitcoin and Ethereum, two networks whose size, age, and […]
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OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.4 Pro model has now achieved an IQ score higher than 99.96% of all human beings, giving markets a fresh signal that AI capability gains are starting to outpace the usual product-cycle noise. OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Pro touches 150 on public IQ benchmark as markets enter another macro-heavy week TrackingAI’s public leaderboard now places […]
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X plans to auto-lock and verify first-time crypto mentions as Head of Product Nikita Bier says the move could curb phishing scams on X.
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The new group will steward an open standard for embedding payments into web interactions.
What looks like a geopolitical threat aimed at US multinationals could quickly become a crypto story too. That is because several of the companies threatened by Iran now sit inside the infrastructure, payments, and corporate treasury layers that parts of the digital-asset industry rely on. According to the Wall Street Journal, the IRGC warned that […]
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On Mar. 30, Google Quantum AI published a 57-page whitepaper coauthored with Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation and Dan Boneh of Stanford. The paper demonstrates that breaking the 256-bit elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem, the cryptographic foundation underlying most blockchain transactions, requires roughly 500,000 physical qubits, a 20-fold reduction from prior estimates. That compression means […]
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The Midnight Foundation declared its network live on Mar. 29, with the genesis block dated Mar. 17. That launch gives Cardano's community its first production test of Charles Hoskinson's argument that public blockchains cannot reach regulated finance, identity, and business use unless the infrastructure itself embeds privacy and compliance from the start. Cardano enters that […]
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A critical vulnerability in Zcash node software could have allowed attackers to drain millions of dollars of ZEC from a deprecated shielded pool.
The rise of quantum computing could revolutionize crypto security, necessitating urgent shifts to post-quantum cryptography to prevent theft.
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A new paper from Google Quantum AI has sharply reduced the estimated hardware required to crack elliptic-curve cryptography used by Bitcoin and much of Ethereum, moving a long-running security debate closer to market terms. At current market prices, the quantum computing risks could affect more than $600 billion in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins. The paper, […]
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The first Form 1099-DA season is arriving for US crypto investors with a basic problem: many people are getting the new IRS form before they understand what it actually tells them. A Coinbase and CoinTracker survey of 3,000 US crypto users found that 61% were unaware of the new 2025 reporting rules, even though 74% […]
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The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant threat to the security of cryptocurrencies, necessitating urgent adoption of post-quantum cryptography to safeguard digital assets and maintain financial stability.
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Meta tests Instagram Plus with stealth story viewing and premium features as it expands beyond creator monetization.
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Ripple is trying to reshape the institutional case for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) around two issues that have long limited the use of public blockchains in mainstream finance: privacy and software risk. The company’s argument is that banks, payment firms, and asset managers may be more willing to use a public ledger for tokenized cash, […]
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The verifiable data platform is marking its one-year anniversary, with plans to double down on AI and onchain finance.
The crypto industry has framed its quantum reckoning as a single catastrophic “Q-Day” moment when a sufficiently powerful machine arrives, old cryptographic keys shatter, and blockchain history unravels. This week, that moment may have been brought forward into this decade. The Ethereum Foundation's Mar. 24 post-quantum (PQ) roadmap shows that the realistic quantum threat to […]
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