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Vitalik Buterin has outlined a four-pronged plan to harden Ethereum against quantum threats, identifying four areas most vulnerable: validator signatures, data storage, user account signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs. As headlines spotlight quantum risk across crypto, including discussions

Paradigm, the San Francisco-based crypto investment firm, is pursuing a new $1.5 billion fund aimed at backing companies across artificial intelligence, robotics and other frontier technologies. The fundraising plan, reported by the Wall Street Journal, signals the firm’s intention to broaden its

Bitcoin has inched back toward the $70,000 mark, but traders remain wary as derivatives signals fail to echo the price recovery. On Wednesday, the benchmark cryptocurrency briefly touched the round level after a Tuesday dip to around $62,500, a move that was supported by a fresh wave of inflows

Block, the payments company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, is pursuing a sweeping workforce reduction, targeting more than 4,000 roles as part of a broader AI-driven overhaul. The move comes after Bloomberg reported earlier this month that roughly 10% of Block’s staff could be cut during annual

The market mood has shifted as cross-asset dynamics tighten around valuation, policy uncertainty, and the path of inflation. A respected equity research team recently downgraded US stocks to neutral, citing high price levels, a weaker dollar, and lingering policy risks that could cap upside in the n

Nasdaq has filed a proposed rule change to list the VanEck JitoSOL ETF, a fund designed to hold the Solana-based liquid staking token JitoSOL (CRYPTO: JTO). The instrument would give investors exposure to on-chain staking economics without the need to operate validator infrastructure, wrapping the u

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) traded in a tight band this week as market participants weighed chatter about a purported “10 a.m. dump” tied to a prominent quantitative trading firm. The narrative gained traction after Terraform Labs’ court-appointed administrator filed a suit alleging insider trading

A Minnesota lawmaker has introduced a bill that could ban virtual currency kiosks statewide after reports of scams tied to crypto ATMs. Bitcoin ATMs (CRYPTO: BTC) have emerged as a focal point in law-enforcement briefings, where operators have been accused of enabling irreversible transactions that

The AI-driven data-center expansion is increasingly financed through debt, and lenders are weighing risk and opportunity in the AI-infrastructure and crypto-mining nexus. TheEnergyMag’s latest newsletter tracks roughly $33 billion in long-term senior notes raised over the past 12 months, excluding c

February’s tax-policy dialogue around crypto expanded across several jurisdictions, underscoring a global shift toward clearer reporting and new levies on digital assets. The year’s early momentum included a critical test for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which struggled to reclaim the $70,000 level as pol

In online crypto circles, a persistent debate has emerged around whether a quantitative trading firm could nudge Bitcoin’s price at the moment U.S. markets open. Proponents point to a recognizable 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time pattern as potential evidence of coordinated selling, while critics caution

Crypto Professionals Under Attack: How Fake Meeting Links Are Targeting the Digital Asset Industry
The cryptocurrency and Web3 ecosystem has always attracted innovation, opportunity and unfortunately increasingly sophisticated scams.
In recent months, a growing number of professionals working in d

Editor’s note: The following briefing outlines a new phishing campaign uncovered by Kaspersky that hijacks legitimate Google Tasks notifications to steal corporate credentials. The attackers impersonate trusted services, leveraging the @google.com domain and intra-company cues to evade standard