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The 25-year-old mystery of whether the National Security Agency had secretly weakened the elliptic curve cryptography underpinning modern online security has been unexpectedly solved — not by a human cryptographer but by Anthropic’s Claude AI. In under thirty minutes, Claude tra…
The world’s most influential index provider has drawn a line around what counts as a “company.” MSCI finalised new eligibility rules this week that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its global equity benchmarks after trading closes in November. The change targets busines…
Nearly a billion dollars in crypto positions were wiped out in a single day as bitcoin slipped to around $81,000 and ether dropped more than 6% to roughly $2,350. According to CoinDesk, ether accounted for nearly 60% of the forced closures, a sign that leveraged bets on the se…
France is weighing a proposal to expand its 31.4% crypto capital gains tax to include trades involving EU-regulated stablecoins. Chainalysis CEO in France Francois Volpoet has warned this could drive investors toward unmonitored offshore channels, essentially undermining the reg…
A cryptocurrency trader in the UK says masked intruders broke into his home and forced him at knifepoint to transfer nearly $800,000 in digital assets to their wallet — the latest in a surge of what security researchers call “wrench attacks”: crimes aimed not at a vulnerability…
India’s richest state, Maharashtra, is drafting a policy to tokenize its own assets — including electricity transmission infrastructure — on a blockchain to fund new public projects. The idea, reported by CoinDesk, is that citizens could invest in these tokenised claims and shar…
The decision by Standard Chartered to offer spot bitcoin and ether trading through its Dubai International Financial Centre branch, putting crypto on the same electronic FX rails as dollars and euros, marks a quiet but significant milestone. It is the first top-tier global bank …
Blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk shows that wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group moved more than $30 million in bitcoin through the derivatives platform Hyperliquid in just the last three weeks. The group, infamous for cyber heists that fund Pyongyang’s weapons progr…
The New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, is putting real weight behind the idea that stocks, bonds and other traditional assets can live on a blockchain. ICE announced it will license technology from tZERO, a regulated venue for tokenized securiti…
For a while I’ve been playing around with Mu - an open source project that provides tools for agents behind one MCP server and app.
NEAR Protocol’s dramatic price surge this month — up 90% to $2.80 — offers a window into crypto’s most promising development: infrastructure that actually solves user problems rather than simply creating new tokens to trade.
The prospect of a $1 trillion bitcoin lending market reveals something more significant than just another speculative bubble — it suggests crypto is finally developing the boring, essential infrastructure that real financial systems require.
The swift recovery in bitcoin following President Trump’s announcement of a “largely negotiated” peace agreement with Iran reveals something important about how digital assets now function in global risk markets. Bitcoin dropped to $74,000 amid escalating Middle East tensions, …
Robinhood Crypto’s COO departure after five years signals more than typical executive turnover — it reflects the broader challenge facing crypto platforms as they navigate the industry’s maturation phase. Tanya Denisova’s exit comes as Robinhood’s crypto revenue fell 47% year-ov…
The sudden exodus of senior researchers from the Ethereum Foundation signals more than a personnel problem — it reveals a fundamental tension between ideological purity and competitive evolution that crypto platforms must resolve to survive.
The intersection of artificial intelligence infrastructure and cryptocurrency mining is reshaping how we think about both industries. When Nvidia posted another record quarter with $81.6 billion in revenue — up 85% year-over-year — it wasn’t just semiconductor investors who too…
The current bitcoin bear market reveals something unprecedented: traders who refuse to capitulate. Research from K33 shows that derivatives positioning remains “uniquely pessimistic” even as bitcoin has stabilized around $76,000, creating conditions that limit both dramatic cra…
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s expected framework for tokenized stocks represents more than regulatory clarity — it signals Wall Street’s recognition that blockchain infrastructure has matured enough to handle traditional finance at scale. When the NYSE partners with S…
Two of Japan’s largest securities firms, SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities, are preparing to offer crypto investment trusts that would allow millions of retail investors to access Bitcoin and Ethereum through their existing brokerage accounts. This development, alongside 11 …
The $293 million KelpDAO hack has exposed something more fundamental than another bridge exploit — it has revealed that decentralized finance is facing its first real maturation crisis. While hackers drained nearly 300 million from the liquid staking protocol, the broader DeFi …