Aptos announced AIP-137introduced SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s as the first post-quantum signature scheme to protect against future quantum computing threats. The proposal, drafted by Alyn Tomescu, head of cryptography at the Aptos Institute, aims to prepare the network before quantum computers associated with cryptography become an urgent concern. The effort comes as quantum computing moves from theoretical speculation…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Danh C. Vo, founder and CEO of Bitcoin mining company VBit Technologies Corp., with defrauding investors of $48.5 million. According to the SEC, Mr. Vo misled investors about his business operations while misusing the funds to gamble, buy virtual currency, and give gifts to his family. The…
// News Reading time: 2 minutes Published date: December 18, 2025 12:27 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued an important interpretation letter on December 17, 2025, allowing national banks to engage in risk-free principal transactions involving crypto assets. Under this new guidance, banks can purchase digital assets from one party and…
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Important points: Coinbase launches custom stablecoinallowing companies to issue branded stablecoins backed by assets like USDC. Coinbase partners with Kalsi Deploy a regulated prediction market directly within the Coinbase app. With these launches, Coinbase “Exchange anything” Spanning cryptocurrencies, payments, and on-chain financial products. Coinbase is Accelerating the transition away from crypto-only exchanges. By launching a…
Alvin Lang December 17, 2025 22:13 NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q QEC 0.5.0 introduces real-time decoding, GPU-accelerated algorithm decoders, and AI inference enhancements aimed at enhancing quantum computing’s error correction capabilities. In a major step toward improving fault-tolerant quantum computing, NVIDIA has released version 0.5.0 of its CUDA-Q quantum error correction…
Brazil’s main stock exchange B3 plans to deepen its involvement in the crypto space next year through the launch of a tokenization platform and its own stablecoin. The tokenization platform will allow assets to be tokenized and traded on exchanges, and B3’s vice president of products and customers, Louis Massagan, said both systems will share…
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), an industry-owned clearing and settlement market infrastructure, has selected privacy-focused Canton Network as its tokenization partner, the companies announced Tuesday. The partnership enables a portion of DTC-custodial U.S. Treasury securities to be minted on the Canton Network and follows DTCC’s recent receipt of a no-action letter from the SEC…
Important points After serving about 11 months in prison, Caroline Ellison was transferred from federal prison to community confinement. She remains in federal custody with an early release date of February 20, 2026. Share this article Caroline Ellison, the former president of Alameda Research and a central figure in the FTX collapse, has been transferred…
Bitwise researchers say more than 100 crypto exchange products could be launched in rapid succession in 2026 following recent guidance from US securities regulators that would significantly reduce the processing time for new funds. “We’re going to accelerate at an incredible rate from here,” Bitwise researcher Ryan Rasmussen said in an interview on the podcast…
