Zcash’s landmark NU7 upgrade goes live, speeding up private payments
NU7 cuts the target time between blocks to 25 seconds, reduces the work wallets must do to find private payments and sets aside fees for future miners.…
SEC Adopts Amendments to Update Definitions of Small Entity for Investment Companies and Investment Advisers
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted amendments to the rules that define which registered investment companies, investment advisers, and…
Why stealing billions from a crypto exchange can be harder to stop than a bank theft
The $6.3 billion Binance breach has revived a debate over whether crypto exchanges are less secure than banks or simply harder to protect once hackers get…
A Nasdaq-listed company may sell $450 million bitcoin, citing Binance hack and quantum fears
Next Technology Holding cited exchange security and quantum computing risks in authorizing sales or loans against its 5,833 BTC. It says none of the coins are…
The $6.3 billion Binance hack paradox: Centralization made the hack possible, but also saved $3 billion
The Binance hack has revived debates about whether decentralization is the digital asset industry’s greatest security advantage or its biggest point of…
Crypto Biz: Bitcoin’s quantum threat is becoming an economic problem
Bitcoin faces mounting quantum security concerns as Ripple secures a US banking charter, USDC gains ground in Europe and VanEck adds BTC to a new ETF.…
EIP-7702 didn’t cause Binance hack, but may have amplified losses
Security experts say attackers could have drained Binance’s wallets without EIP7702, but the Ethereum upgrade may have helped bypass withdrawal safeguards.…
$6 billion Binance hack sends bitcoin, ether tumbling; Standard Chartered expects more pain
Bitcoin and ether slid after a suspected $6.3 billion Binance security breach and a Polymarket exploit. Standard Chartered says crypto prices may remain under…
Security failure at Indian certificate firm bites Ethereum as developers rush out fixes
A key blunder at Indian certificate issuer eMudhra left some Teku and Besu setups trusting forged certificates. Default mainnet nodes weren’t exposed.…
Crypto isn’t a partisan fight, proven by data
Treating crypto as a political battleground only makes it harder to build the secure, transparent, Americanmade financial system that most Americans say they…
Google to preview crypto custody security system as AI threats grow
Google MultiParty Compute is in private preview, with several major financial institutions testing the technology and parent company Alphabet using it to…
Initia halts blockchain after exploit reportedly drains over $2.6M
The blockchain suspended its layer1 network and rollups after security researchers identified unauthorized token minting and millions in assets transferred to…