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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Cravin combines provably fair verification with a Fair Value Guarantee that returns the difference in Credits when an item lands below the box price, pairing auditability with a smoother user experience. For years, the industry’s consumer story has centered on spending. Stablecoin rails, merchant settlement, and checkout tools still dominate crypto’s retail pitch. The idea […]
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Cardano is attempting to turn the imminent mainnet launch of the Midnight network, a privacy-focused sidechain, into a repair job as market data signals extreme negative sentiment toward its native ADA token. Data from Santiment shows that the average wallet active on the Cardano network over the past year has earned a negative 43% return […]
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The inclusion of tech leaders in PCAST could accelerate U.S. innovation, impacting global tech dominance and shaping future job markets.
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Musk's Terafab could revolutionize AI compute, enabling unprecedented space infrastructure and advancing human expansion beyond Earth.
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Amazon's new phone could redefine mobile engagement by integrating AI deeply into daily life, potentially reshaping user interaction norms.
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Coinbase is directing some Commerce users to a seed-phrase recovery flow ahead of a March 31 migration deadline. The issue sits inside Coinbase’s shutdown plan for legacy Commerce wallets. In its transition guide, Coinbase says users with funds in a Commerce wallet must withdraw them before March 31, 2026, when the Commerce portal and withdrawal […]
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Australian researchers built a battery that charges in femtoseconds, stores energy for nanoseconds, and gets faster the larger it grows—defying every rule conventional batteries follow.
The phishing campaign lures OpenClaw developers with fake $5,000 token airdrops, then drains wallets through a cloned site with a hidden connection prompt.
The outage highlights the vulnerability of digital platforms and the potential impact on global communication and business operations.
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The partnership aims to lay the foundations for the agentic workflows that will become increasingly important to on-chain finance.
For most of its life, Solana's brand was straightforward: fast infrastructure for whatever crypto wanted to do at volume. By year four, that mostly meant memecoins, and it stayed that way until year five. Solana became known for being the infrastructure for high-profile, and sometimes controversial, memecoin launches. A few cases include President Donald Trump-linked […]
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Alto's funding boost for depression drug trials could accelerate innovative treatments, potentially transforming neuropsychiatric care landscapes.
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Officials say the FBI alert cited by the network came from an unverified tip, as Iran deploys drones across the Middle East following U.S. and Israeli strikes.
AI pressure points in tech labor are real, and Bitcoin will feel them through macro, not mystique After years of claims that AI will cause chaos in the labor market, sentiment seems to be at an all-time low around AI layoffs, with social media accounts surfacing to track how fast white-collar tech work is already […]
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Advertisers spend millions on ads that may never be seen by real people. Alkimi is aiming to make the online advertising market transparent.
IBM's quantum-centric supercomputing architecture could revolutionize problem-solving in science by integrating quantum and classical systems.
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Browser warnings flagged the site for suspected phishing after attackers pushed a fake TOS message designed to trick users.
A vulnerability in some MediaTek-powered phones could allow attackers to extract encrypted data, including wallet seed phrases, using only a USB connection.
The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data. Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol launched in April 2025 with 50 partners and scaled to more than 100 supporting companies […]
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Experts warn that encrypted chats could face a “harvest now, decrypt later” risk as quantum computing advances.