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StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has executed what the company calls the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, demonstrating a way to protect certain BTC transfers from a future quantum attacker without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules. The mainnet transaction used Levy’s Quantum-Safe Bitcoin, or QSB, construction to move coins into an output protected by hash-based security rather than relying entirely on elliptic-curve cryptography. StarkWare engineer Tomer Giladi helped bring the April research into a working transaction. The method does not make...

Coinbase and Better Mortgage have expanded access to a home-financing product that lets eligible U.S. borrowers pledge Bitcoin instead of selling it to raise cash for a down payment. The product moved into general availability for Coinbase One members after an earlier rollout that produced the first Fannie Mae-backed U.S. mortgage using Bitcoin collateral. Better originates and services the loans, while Coinbase provides the infrastructure used to move pledged BTC into custody. The structure gives crypto holders a route into...

Core Lightning node operators are being urged to disconnect from peers while developers prepare signed binaries containing fixes for a group of undisclosed security vulnerabilities. Bitcoin developer Calle amplified the warning on August 26, urging CLN operators to take affected nodes offline until patched software is available. Core Lightning’s --offline setting prevents lightningd from binding to network ports or reconnecting to peers while allowing operators to continue local maintenance and monitoring. The vulnerabilities have not been linked to confirmed thefts...

Bitcoin was trading around $79,200 on Monday, putting $80,000 roughly 1% away as Ethereum pushed through $2,500 and strength continued across major altcoins. BTC has gained more than 20% over the past week after a $3 billion short squeeze accelerated the breakout through $70,000 and $75,000. The move has also brought the year-end $100K scenario back into play, with $80,000 now the immediate level separating BTC from another push toward $90,000. Bitcoin ETF Inflows Add Spot Demand Behind Rally U.S....

Ledger has patched a vulnerability in its Ethereum hardware-wallet app that could allow a malicious dApp to replace a transaction during the approval process while the device continued showing users the transaction they originally reviewed. Security firm TestMachine disclosed the signature-substitution flaw on August 21 after reproducing it on Ledger hardware. Ledger had already shipped Ethereum app version 1.22.2 on August 12, with its release history listing security fixes for the update. Malicious dApp Could Change the Transaction Before Signing...

Base creator Jesse Pollak has pushed back against criticism that Coinbase is selling ETH while benefiting from Ethereum, pointing to the exchange’s roughly 150,000 ETH corporate position and years of investment across the network. Pollak argued that Coinbase has held about 150,000 ETH through multiple market cycles, while describing the company as the largest ETH holder outside dedicated digital asset treasury companies by a wide margin. Coinbase’s latest regulatory filing backs up the scale of that position. The company held...

A crypto user lost 1,010 ETH after following an old Tornado Cash bookmark into a phishing frontend that captured the private withdrawal credentials needed to access the deposited funds. The victim deposited the ETH into legitimate Tornado Cash contracts, but the malicious interface obtained the private note generated during the process. The attacker then used those credentials to withdraw the assets within roughly 12 hours without compromising the underlying Tornado Cash smart contracts. Phishing Frontend Targeted Private Withdrawal Notes Tornado...

Ethereum’s network-growth metric has accelerated sharply in August, with new daily ETH addresses climbing from 121,210 on August 8 to 212,560 on August 16. The increase represents roughly 75.4% growth in eight days and adds another signal that activity is returning to the network. New-address creation measures the number of addresses appearing onchain for the first time rather than the number of unique people using Ethereum. A single user or automated system can control multiple addresses, so the metric is...

A crypto trading bot is a chain of dependencies. It reads a position, prices it, decides, places an order, and confirms settlement. Every one of those steps is an API call, and a failure at any single step stops the strategy. The provider choice shapes what a bot can actually do more than the strategy logic does. The common mistake is searching for one API that covers everything. No such API exists in 2026. Market data providers do not route...

Polymarket and Kalshi helped turn prediction markets into a mainstream trading category, but neither platform fits every trader. Access varies by country, market selection can lean heavily toward certain topics, and the tools available for entering, managing, and automating positions differ sharply across platforms. The strongest alternatives are not identical copies. Some emerging prediction markets platforms focus on professional order controls, some concentrate on fast crypto and financial markets, and others use onchain infrastructure or play-money forecasting. Users unfamiliar with...

A funded crypto trading account gives a trader access to more notional capital after they prove they can follow a firm’s risk rules. The usual route starts with a paid crypto prop firm challenge that requires a profit target without breaching daily or overall loss limits. Passing is not only about making money. Drawdown control, minimum trading days and rule compliance determine whether the account survives. The evaluation fee can be lost, and crypto prop firms use different account models,...

Tokenized stock perps allow traders to take long or short exposure to companies, ETFs and equity indexes through crypto-native derivatives markets. Positions can use stablecoin collateral, remain open without an expiry date and continue trading when the main stock exchange is closed. The trader receives price exposure, not ownership of the referenced shares. The interface often looks identical to a crypto perpetual futures market. The risk does not. A stock-linked contract can remain active overnight, through weekends and during holidays...

BitGo has acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading business and related assets, expanding its derivatives, financing and capital-markets capabilities as NYDIG concentrates resources on Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing infrastructure. The completed acquisition brings NYDIG’s institutional client trading relationships and roughly 30 employees into BitGo. Financial terms were not disclosed. NYDIG’s trading operation serves asset managers, hedge funds, corporations, family offices and other institutional clients through derivatives, structured products, financing and customized trading strategies. BitGo Adds Trading and Financing to Institutional Stack...

X is preparing to add trade buttons for crypto assets, moving the social platform closer to letting users go from discovering a token to trading it without leaving the app. Nikita Bier said trade buttons are “coming soon” alongside X's existing Cashtags infrastructure, which can display Solana and Ethereum charts inside posts and recognize contract addresses for newly launched tokens. A launch date, supported token list and execution partner have not been disclosed. Trade Buttons Build on X Cashtags X...

Nvidia customers are facing price increases of more than 15% on many AI server configurations as soaring memory costs feed directly into the next wave of data-center spending. The increases are expected to affect systems shipped in early 2027, including Nvidia's flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell platforms. The exact increase varies by chip generation and memory configuration, with server manufacturers already passing the higher pricing to major data-center operators including Microsoft, Google and Oracle. Nvidia has not publicly announced...

BitMart is exploring a restructuring that could bring parts of its exchange back online, less than a month after setting dates to end trading and shut the platform completely. The exchange has appointed White & Case as restructuring counsel and is developing an alternative to its existing wind-down plan. The proposal could combine a phased resumption of operations with distributions to creditors while legal, financial, operational and regulatory reviews continue. A new roadmap is due no later than September 9....