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Bitcoin is now leading the Fed instead of reacting to it. ETFs are the reason

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Bitcoin may no longer move in step with Federal Reserve policy, according to a new report from Binance Research that points to a structural shift driven by spot exchange-traded funds. For years, crypto markets reacted sharply to interest rate signals, with bitcoin falling as central banks tightened monetary policy. That pattern now appears to be […]

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AI is breaking crypto security by making hacks cheaper and easier, Ledger CTO warns

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Crypto platforms – and investors – have long suffered from hacker attacks and exploits. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is making this threat even worse. That’s according to Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at crypto wallet provider Ledger, who said the economics of cybersecurity are collapsing as AI tools make it faster and cheaper to attack

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Drift says the $270 million exploit was a six-month North Korean intelligence operation

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A six-month intelligence operation preceded the exploitation of the $270 million Drift Protocol and was carried out by a North Korean state-linked group, according to a detailed incident update released by the team earlier Sunday. The attackers first made contact around the fall of 2025 at a major crypto conference, presenting themselves as a quantitative

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Ant Group’s blockchain arm unveils platform for AI agents to trade on crypto rails

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Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain arm of Chinese conglomerate Ant Group, has unveiled a new platform that aims to enable AI agents, not humans, to become the main participants in crypto transactions called Anvita. Unveiled at the company’s Real Up summit in Cannes, Anvita is Ant’s venture into what it calls an “agent-to-agent economy,” where

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Key initiatives aimed at quantum securing the world’s largest blockchain

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Quantum computers capable of breaking the Bitcoin blockchain do not exist today. However, developers are already considering a wave of upgrades to build defenses against the potential threat, and rightly so, as the threat is no longer hypothetical. This week, Google published research suggesting that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could crack Bitcoin’s core cryptography

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Bitcoin tends to outperform gold and stocks after global shocks, Mercado Bitcoin finds

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Bitcoin BTC$67,358.71 tends to outperform traditional safe haven assets like gold in the two months following major global crises, according to new analysis from Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin. The study, led by Rony Szuster, head of research at the Latin American crypto platform, examined 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks such as the

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Treasury for digital assets must now earn their keep

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The days of buying bitcoin and calling it a financial strategy are over. By early 2026, more than 200 publicly traded companies have digital assets on their balance sheets and collectively manage over $115 billion (DLA Piper, October 2025). The combined market capitalization of these companies reached approximately $150 billion by September 2025 – a

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Britain’s shortest-serving chancellor makes bold bitcoin bets

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Kwasi Kwarteng, the UK’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer who served only weeks in September 2022, is re-emerging with a new focus on bitcoin, monetary history and long-term economic thinking. Reflecting on the infamous mini-budget in an interview with CoinDesk, he was candid about the missteps. “The mini budget was literally two weeks after we

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Experts say 24/7 markets will prevent brokers from “chasing” your stop losses after hours

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If the closing bell has long been a business model, then 24/7 trading is an attempt to break it. As the NYSE, Nasdaq, CME and Cboe race to introduce around-the-clock trading, the question is who might win and who might lose. The answer is quite simple, Mati Greenspan, CEO and founder of Quantum Economics, told

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