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A pilot program brings financial institutions and regulatory bodies together to trial post-quantum cryptography for digital asset transfers. A group of banks and regulatory bodies has joined a pilot program testing quantum-resistant crypto transfers, according to reports from Cointelegraph and CryptoBriefing.

Bitcoin and broader digital asset markets face a heavy macroeconomic data calendar that could shape short-term sentiment. Crypto markets enter a pivotal week as investors turn their attention to a cluster of US economic reports. Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation data, jobs figures, and gross domestic product growth numbers are all due for release.

A halving cuts the block subsidy in half on a fixed schedule enforced by every node. It does not touch transaction fees, difficulty or hashrate directly - and what happened to miner economics after April 2024 is a mix of protocol fact and unaudited estimate.

The billionaire investor says rising US debt levels justify holding hard assets alongside traditional portfolios. Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has again sounded the alarm on US government debt. He warned that current fiscal trends could push total US debt toward $60 trillion, according to Bitcoin.com News.

Japanese financial giant SBI joins investors funding Fasset's push into stablecoin-based payments Fasset, a neobank built around stablecoin infrastructure, has reached a $1 billion valuation. The milestone follows an investment from SBI Group, the Japanese financial conglomerate known for its diversified holdings across banking, brokerage, and crypto ventures.

Cointribune EN and CryptoSlate report the same weekly Bitcoin and Ether ETF inflow totals but give conflicting figures for XRP and Solana ETF inflows over the same period. Cointribune EN and CryptoSlate report the same weekly Bitcoin and Ether ETF inflow totals but give conflicting figures for XRP and Solana ETF inflows over the same…

Users holding assets on Sui through Phantom must move funds before the cutoff date, reports say. Phantom is removing support for the Sui network, according to reporting from CryptoBriefing. The wallet provider has given users until September 24 to move any Sui-based assets before access through Phantom ends.

People say a rollup "inherits Ethereum's security" — this is what that phrase covers mechanically, and what it leaves for a reader to check chain by chain.

Attackers reportedly drained Ethereum-based vaults after manipulating protocol governance controls. A decentralized finance lending protocol has lost an estimated $8.5 million in a governance exploit, according to multiple reports published this week. The attack drained vaults built on Ethereum, marking one of the more notable DeFi security incidents of the year.

If you hold stETH or rETH, you hold a claim on a staked position - not the staked asset itself. Here is how that claim is accounted for, how it can be redeemed, and why its price can move away from the underlying value.

A price oracle is how a smart contract learns what an asset is worth. Losses happen two different ways — the oracle reports a false price, or it faithfully reports a real price that someone paid to distort — and the fixes for one do not cover the other.

Crude markets pulled back amid uncertainty over forthcoming US sanctions guidance, according to a report from CryptoBriefing. Oil prices moved lower as traders awaited further details on US sanctions policy from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to a report from CryptoBriefing.

A depeg happens when the arbitrage path between market price and issuer redemption breaks. Whether it reopens - and how fast - explains why USDC and DAI recovered in days, USDT in weeks, and UST never did.

AMBCrypto's weekly market review places the memecoin, the pump.fun token, World Liberty Financial and exchange HTX among the week's notable movers. AMBCrypto's latest weekly market review highlighted four names that stood out among crypto's winners and losers: PEPE, PUMP, WLFI and HTX.

Holding your own crypto keys comes down to two mechanical requirements — a wallet that generates keys locally, and a tested, redundant backup. The seed phrase is where nearly all real-world risk lives, not the cryptography behind it.

Firmware 5.6.1 requires owners to supply their own randomness for every new seed following reports of a major Bitcoin exploit Coinkite has pushed out firmware version 5.6.1 for its Coldcard hardware wallet. The update requires users to supply their own entropy for every new seed created on the device.

A weekly market roundup credits growing worry over US government debt for pushing bitcoin sharply higher. Bitcoin climbed 23% in a rally that outlets tracking weekly crypto news attributed to mounting anxiety over US government debt policy.

Fundstrat's Tom Lee highlighted the asset manager's inflows as a sign of resilient demand amid falling crypto prices. Bitwise has pulled in $1.8 billion in investor capital during a period marked by declining cryptocurrency prices, according to figures highlighted this week.