SpaceX ties Musk pay to Mars colony and space data center goals as the company prepares for a potential $1.75T IPO.
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Paul Sztorc, LayerTwo Labs CEO and longtime Bitcoin developer, is planning an August 2026 Bitcoin hard fork called eCash, targeted around Bitcoin block 964,000. His April 24 announcement described a new chain that would copy Bitcoin history, give holders 1 eCash for every 1 BTC at the split, and launch with a Bitcoin-Core-like base layer […]
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On Apr. 22, a malicious version of Bitwarden's command-line interface appeared on npm under the official package name @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0. For 93 minutes, anyone who pulled the CLI through npm received a backdoored substitute for the legitimate tool. Bitwarden detected the compromise, removed the package, and issued a statement saying it found no evidence that attackers […]
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Input Output Global, the primary software laboratory behind the Cardano blockchain, has halved its annual treasury funding request, asking the network’s decentralized governance body for $46.8 million to finance its 2026 operations. The pullback marks a deliberate transition away from single-entity dominance, pivoting the ecosystem toward a future where specialized third-party firms shoulder a larger […]
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Top prediction market platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket, are rushing to offer highly leveraged crypto derivatives at the exact moment state and federal authorities are clashing in court over whether the industry’s core products constitute illegal betting or legitimate financial instruments. Over the past year, these companies have gained national prominence by facilitating wagers on […]
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Adobe's buyback plan may stabilize its stock, but competitive pressures and AI disruption could challenge long-term growth prospects.
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Apple is heading into its biggest leadership transition in years, just as scrutiny is mounting over the security of its App Store and the rise of crypto theft on iPhones. On April 20, the company revealed that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will succeed Tim Cook as chief executive officer by […]
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Advisory council says validator signatures and wallet cryptography could be vulnerable if future quantum computers break current encryption.
Revolut is discussing a potential 2028 IPO at up to a $200 billion valuation as growth, profits, and banking expansion accelerate.
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Ripple is building a multi-stage plan to prepare the XRP Ledger (XRPL) for an eventual shift to post-quantum cryptography, setting a 2028 target for full readiness. This comes as advances in quantum computing force blockchain developers to think more concretely about how existing security systems may need to change in preparation for “Q-day.” The company […]
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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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