A six-month intelligence operation preceded the $270 million Drift Protocol exploitation and was carried out by a group affiliated with the North Korean state, according to a detailed incident update released by the team earlier Sunday. The attackers first made contact around fall 2025 at a major crypto conference, posing as a quant trading company […]
Ant Digital Technologies, the blockchain division of Chinese conglomerate Ant Group, has unveiled a new platform aimed at enabling AI agents, not humans, to become the primary participants in crypto transactions called Anvita. Unveiled at the company’s Real Up summit in Cannes, Anvita is Ant’s bet on what it calls an “agent-to-agent economy,” in which
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Quantum computers capable of breaking the Bitcoin blockchain do not exist today. However, the developers are already planning 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
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Bitcoin BTC$67,405.31 tends to outperform traditional safe-haven assets like gold in the two months following major global crises, according to a new analysis from Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin. The study, led by Rony Szuster, head of research at the Latin American crypto platform, looked at 60-day windows after economic or geopolitical shocks such as
Kwasi Kwarteng, former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom who served only a few weeks in September 2022, re-emerges 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 written literally two
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The era of buying bitcoin and calling it a cash strategy is over. As of early 2026, more than 200 publicly traded companies held digital assets on their balance sheets, collectively managing more than $115 billion (DLA Piper, October 2025). The total market capitalization of these companies reached around $150 billion in September 2025, almost
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If the closing bell has long been a business pattern, then 24/7 trading is an attempt to break it. As the NYSE, Nasdaq, CME and Cboe work to introduce 24-hour trading, the question is who stands to gain and who stands to lose. The answer is quite simple, Mati Greenspan, CEO and founder of Quantum
Crypto has spent years obsessing over speed, fees, and scalability. Today, he may face a more existential question: What happens when his basic security breaks down? This question moves from theory to urgency. Quantum computers, machines that use the principles of quantum physics to process information in fundamentally different ways than today’s computers, could eventually
The world’s most visible bitcoin buyers are buying at a near-record pace. It’s not enough. A weekly report from CryptoQuant showed overall 30-day apparent demand at a negative 63,000 BTC in late March, meaning the market as a whole is selling off much faster than institutions can absorb. ETF purchases reached around 50,000 BTC over
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A Nevada state judge on Friday extended a temporary ban on sports-related contracts from prediction market provider Kalshi in the Silver State. First Judicial District Court Judge Jason Woodbury told attorneys during a hearing at the Carson City courthouse that he also would grant the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s request to impose a preliminary injunction
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