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Quantum-safe bitcoin now possible without a soft fork, but costs $200 per

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A StarkWare researcher has published what he says is the first method to make bitcoin transactions quantum-secure on the live network today without changes to the Bitcoin protocol. However, the scheme costs up to $200 per transaction and is designed as an emergency measure rather than a permanent solution. In a paper published this week, […]

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OKX and HashKey invest in new Vietnam exchange ahead of crypto licensing

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OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital are backing a new Vietnam-based crypto exchange as Hanoi accelerates efforts to bring one of the world’s most active retail crypto markets under formal regulation. Vietnam Prosperity Crypto Asset Exchange (CAEX) said on Friday that the two firms have agreed to invest and become strategic partners alongside founding shareholders VPBank

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Mythos AI threat prompts Bessent, Powell to summon bank CEOs for urgent talks

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Mythos’ AI scare is real—enough for US regulators to call an emergency meeting to assess what Anthropic’s advanced artificial intelligence model could mean for banks. The meeting took place on Tuesday, when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell sat down with Wall Street bank chiefs to discuss possible cybersecurity risks associated with

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Here’s how much bitcoin (BTC) could move on Friday’s US inflation report

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The latest US inflation report for March, due on Friday, is seen by many observers as a vital indicator against the background of the Iran war and its inflationary impact. Yet recent activity in bitcoin BTC$72,311.54 the market shows that traders do not see it as a big market move. “The bitcoin market is currently

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A $145 million FARTCOIN bet sparked $51 million in liquidations and a 50% token crash

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An oversized bet on the meme coin “Fartcoin” that skyrocketed it ended in a 50% crash. A group of wallets tried to push Fartcoin’s price higher by building a $145.24 million token long position on Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetual futures exchange that has become the go-to place for leveraged crypto bets during the ongoing US-Iran

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Tokenized perpetual swaps hit $31 billion in weekly volume on commodity volatility

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Trading in tokenized versions of traditional assets surged in the first quarter, with perpetual swaps tied to commodities and stocks drawing billions in weekly volume and bringing 24/7 activity to a wider range of markets. Weekly trading volume for such assets jumped to $30.7 billion, or 1.72% of the total crypto derivatives market, by the

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Galaxy’s Novogratz touts $15 billion Helios valuation in first Nasdaq annual letter

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Galaxy Digital ( GLXY ) founder and CEO Mike Novogratz highlighted the company’s key milestones in its 2025 annual report, marking its first 10-K filing as a Nasdaq-listed company. Novogratz described the listing as more than a milestone, calling it “a statement that the digital economy is real and that Galaxy is built to lead

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Trump’s World Liberty Financial borrowed millions from a protocol that its own adviser helped found

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World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by the Trump family, has conducted a series of transactions through decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Dolomite, raising questions about insider access, circular token economy and concentrated risk for other depositors. Onchain records analyzed by CoinDesk, pulled from Etherscan, Arkham and publicly available wallet data, show that the

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