Archives for October 8, 2026

The CoinDesk 80 (CD80) led the multi-asset CoinDesk indices, rising 57.4% to 559 and outperforming bitcoin by roughly 14.7 percentage points, with Zcash extending its second quarter momentum as interest in privacy assets continued. All 20 CD20 constituents finished the quarter positive. Uniswap (UNI) led with a 220% gain, followed by NEAR NEAR$4.5198 at 200%, […]

Such a transition could prove an impediment to institutional adoption of cryptocurrency, Alex Pruden, Project Eleven’s co-founder and CEO, told CoinDesk via LinkedIn. “Institutions are already preparing the post-quantum transition outside of blockchains,” he added. Christopher Smith, Quantus’ co-founder and CEO believes AI is “accelerating everything, including both quantum hardware and quantum software.” “The tail […]

The Cardano Foundation spun out Veridian, its digital-identity project, as an independent company and tokenized its shares on the Cardano blockchain using the network’s new programmable-token standard. Veridian, based in Switzerland, will build tools for governments, businesses and AI agents to prove their identity and specify their online activities. The company is led by Thomas […]

More than 6 million bitcoin BTC$81,699.04 sit behind public keys already visible onchain, highlighting the scale of holdings potentially exposed if advances in AI or quantum computing undermine Bitcoin’s cryptography. Those coins represent 31.2% of circulating supply, roughly 5 to 6% above the low reached in 2023, according to Glassnode data. Glassnode co-founder Rafael Schultze-Kraft […]

Tokenization firm Securitize (SECZ) said it is bringing shares of Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and other major U.S. companies in the Solana (SOL) blockchain, joining a growing race to make traditional stocks available through crypto trading infrastructure. The new product, called Securitize Stocks, will initially cover 12 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Netflix, Circle, Strategy […]

Drake said the math behind bitcoin and ether wallet signatures, known as elliptic curves, follows tidy patterns that a powerful enough AI could learn to exploit. Hash functions, which turn any piece of data into a fixed-length digital fingerprint that can’t be worked backward, are built to scramble information with as little pattern as possible. […]

“HOME is not trying to create demand for residential credit from scratch,” Moro said. “It is taking an asset class that already has substantial institutional demand and making that exposure available through a more accessible onchain structure.” The underlying market is also expanding. U.S. HELOC balances rose by $13 billion in the second quarter, their […]

There is precedent for much larger holdings reaching the market. Galaxy confirmed in July 2025 that it sold more than 80,000 BTC for an early investor as part of an estate-planning strategy. Wednesday’s transfer is far smaller, and its records do not establish a sale. 100 bitcoin mined for pennies in 2010 moves after 16 […]

For now, bitcoin is trading around $83,000, flirting with the price floor that has held since the rally stalled on Sept. 21. Analysts have said that a sustained break lower would expose $80,000 and violate the steady bullish stair-step pattern on the daily chart. “The $80.5K–$81.5K range encompasses last month’s local highs and the 50-day […]

The latest price action offers little comfort for risk asset bulls, with U.S. treasury yields, oil and the dollar all climbing. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen to 5.352%, while the 30-year continues to set fresh highs above 5.73%. WTI crude has jumped more than 4% over the past 24 hours to $92.40 a […]