More than 100 participants working with AI coding agents cut the resource score for a quantum circuit targeting Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography by 86%, from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion, in the EC…
A Google Quantum AI, Ethereum Foundation, and Stanford collaboration published a March 30, 2026 whitepaper showing that fewer than 500,000 physical superconducting qubits could break the 256-bit ellip…
The town of Plattsburgh, New York, held a public hearing on Thursday to discuss a proposed 12-month moratorium on land use for high-energy computing facilities, including cryptocurrency mining and AI …
Bitcoin infrastructure has suffered a series of major security incidents, including a $114 million drain from Coldcard wallets and a $317 million exploit on Blockstream's Liquid Network, as AI-driven …
TrustNotch has launched a tamper-evident audit log service for AI agents that cryptographically signs each action with Ed25519 receipts, batches entries into RFC 6962 Merkle trees, and anchors batch r…
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said Bitcoin's security mechanisms are resilient to threats from artificial intelligence, countering assessments that AI could cause a more than 50% drop in BTC price …
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rejected a Sept. 7 prediction by investor Liron Shapira that artificial intelligence could undermine confidence in Bitcoin's security and cause its price to fall by…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly rejected angel investor Liron Shapira's claim that artificial intelligence could crash Bitcoin's price by more than 50% within two years, calling the proba…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on September 7 that Bitcoin can withstand emerging cybersecurity threats without relying on social consensus, arguing that simple client and mining pool upgrad…
Ripple has announced a four-phase roadmap to make the XRP Ledger quantum-proof by 2028, following a March 2026 finding by Google's Quantum AI team that 500,000 physical qubits could break elliptic cur…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh used his first Jackson Hole keynote to focus on AI token economics and the end of forward guidance, omitting any mention of stablecoins or tokenization. Following the…
A revised estimate from Google Quantum AI, co-authored by Stanford professor Dan Boneh and Ethereum researcher Justin Drake, suggests that breaking the elliptic-curve cryptography securing Bitcoin and…
An AI-driven security audit has identified a potential vulnerability in the Bitcoin Lightning Network that could allow attackers to drain funds from payment channels by exploiting state synchronizatio…
Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 on Thursday after an AI-assisted code review that produced most of the update's fixes, developer Craig Raw told Decrypt. The review was prompted by the release of…
Core Lightning, a Bitcoin payments software project, warned node operators on Wednesday that several vulnerabilities identified in AI-generated security reports are real and that a fix is being coordi…
The cryptocurrency market has climbed back above $2.7 trillion after a short squeeze liquidated more than $3 billion in bearish positions, with Bitcoin briefly topping $80,000. MemeToro, a new project…
Core Lightning, a major software package for running bitcoin Lightning Network nodes, issued an emergency warning telling operators to restart in --offline mode rather than power down after a flood of…
The Dallas Federal Reserve warned that tokenized deposits could weaken banks' liquidity management and lending capacity, estimating that a 10 percent increase in deposit sensitivity to interest rates …
IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) stock fell 6% to $39.85 midday Wednesday as traders de-risked ahead of its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings report Thursday, while Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) declined …
Defiance ETFs chief investment officer Sylvia Jablonski said robots represent the 'next gen' of AI, drawing exchange-traded fund investors back into the technology sector, as evidenced by renewed infl…