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For more than a decade, crypto security has been built on a fragile assumption:
that a single secret — a private key — can be safely generated, stored, backed up, and never exposed.
Reality has proven otherwise.
A Design That Keeps Failing
Since 2011, crypto hacks and scams have resulted in an estimated $22.7 billion in losses across hundreds of reported incidents.
Year after year, investigations...
A statistical mirage briefly convinced the crypto market this week that mid-sized whales had purchased roughly $5 billion of Bitcoin.
During the past week, social media feeds filled with charts showing that roughly 54,000 Bitcoins are flooding into “shark” wallets, which are addresses holding between 100 and 1,000 coins.
As a result, many industry players interpreted this as evidence that...
An API that charges for queries has always been awkward. Subscription tiers and monthly billing break down when autonomous agents make thousands of microtransactions per hour across new services. x402 is Coinbase's bet that the missing piece is a payment primitive wired directly into HTTP.
The mechanism revives HTTP status code 402 “Payment Required.” When a client requests a resource, the server...
The SEC has refreshed its crypto asset FAQs, clarifying how broker-dealers like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and others can satisfy custody and capital requirements for crypto asset securities, and addressing how the framework applies to Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF activity.
The update appears on the Trading and Markets FAQ index as “Frequently Asked Questions Relating to Crypto Asset Activities...
Bitcoin surged $3,000 in an hour on Dec. 17, reclaiming $90,000 as $120 million in short positions vaporized, then collapsed to $86,000 as $200 million in longs liquidated, completing a $140 billion market-cap swing in two hours.
The movement was driven by leverage, making it seem that leveraged positions are out of control. However, Glassnode's data tells a different story.
In a Dec. 17 report,...
Bitcoin trades near $89,000 today after its 14-day relative strength index fell below 30 in mid-November, a threshold traders track for capitulation.
A chart circulated by Global Macro Investor’s Julien Bittel, sourced to LSEG Datastream, overlays Bitcoin’s recent path with the average trajectory that followed the last five RSI breaks below 30 and traces a route that ends near $180,000 about 90...
Hyperliquid is learning how quickly sentiment can turn in crypto.
According to CryptoSlate data, HYPE, the token that powers the decentralized perpetuals exchange, has dropped to seven-month lows in December after a year in which Hyperliquid looked like the default venue for on-chain leverage.
During this period, the platform's trading volumes have stalled just as newer platforms have surged on...
SBI Ripple Asia signed a memorandum of understanding with Doppler Finance to explore XRP-based yield infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization on the XRP Ledger, the firms said Dec. 17.
According to information shared with CryptoSlate, firms said they will explore collaboration on yield infrastructure for XRP, which lacks native staking, as well as RWA tokenization flows on XRPL.
The...
Michael Saylor delivered a characteristically bold take on Dec. 16 about Bitcoin and the quantum leap:
“The Bitcoin Quantum Leap: Quantum computing won't break Bitcoin—it will harden it. The network upgrades, active coins migrate, lost coins stay frozen. Security goes up. Supply comes down. Bitcoin grows stronger.”
The statement captures the optimistic case for Bitcoin's post-quantum future....
Next year's first quarter could prove kinder to Bitcoin than late 2025, not because bank-run stablecoins arrive overnight, but because the pipes feeding retail and advisors just widened.
Vanguard reversed its crypto ban, opening spot ETF access to roughly 50 million clients. Bank of America advisors can now recommend crypto allocations of 1% to 4% starting early January.
Meanwhile, the FDIC's Dec...