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Tokenized stocks are growing fast. Is onchain use keeping up?
Research shows tokenized stock market cap grew to about $4B, but DeFi TVL is only 7.2% of it, raising the question of real onchain use.
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Zcash Developer Zakura Proposes Fix to Stop Quantum Computers Linking Shielded Swaps
Zcash developer Zakura proposes a fix so a future quantum attacker cannot link all payments a shielded wallet has received.
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Stablecoin Growth Cooled as Deposit Rates Rose, With USDC Most Exposed, Working Paper Says
A working paper using six years of US data finds stablecoin growth slowed after banks raised deposit rates, with USDC most exposed.
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Crypto vault deposits top $10 billion as lending risks draw regulatory scrutiny
Curator-managed crypto vaults have passed $10 billion in deposits, drawing regulatory scrutiny over collateral, liquidity and smart-contract risk.
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2026 Q3 Crypto Industry Report
Quarterly market report claims total crypto market cap rose 39.6% to $3T in Q3, with BTC up 42.7% and ETH up 71%. Snippet is promotional and numbers are unverified.
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Zcash developers plan a fix to keep ZEC swaps private from future quantum computers
Zakura developers plan to give each NEAR Intents swap its own key so refund addresses on NEAR's public chain can't link to a user's wider payment history. It is a privacy design for a quantum-era threat.
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Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
BIS working paper finds stablecoin growth slows when US banks raise deposit rates, with USDC most sensitive.
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Crypto audits give investors false sense of security as Q3 hacks cost $1.18 billion, Hacken says
Hacken's Q3 review attributes 77% of the $1.18 billion in hack losses to compromised suppliers, delayed fixes, or systems outside recent audits, undermining reliance on audits alone.
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What 68 x402 endpoints taught us about agent-payability
A probe of 68 live x402 endpoints finds common failure classes that stop stock buyer clients from paying, with a 10-point checklist.
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Agent passports: proving a KYC'd human runs an AI agent without storing any PII (BIP-340, verified client-side)
A BIP-340 signed agent passport design ties agents to a KYC'd operator without storing PII, but it is currently one operator's 39 passports.
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Saturday project: We brute-forced two vanity addresses on a laptop
Hands-on measurement of how long brute-forcing vanity Bitcoin addresses takes on a laptop, with corrected glossary content on split keys.
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Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance as 6 Million Bitcoin Sit Exposed
Nine crypto firms formed a quantum alliance modeled on the IETF to set open standards for testing quantum-resistance claims, as about 6 million BTC sit exposed.
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Citrini sees a tokenization boom. The harder question is who profits
Citrini research sees a tokenization boom and argues the open question is which companies and protocols capture revenue.
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Solana shows resilience, but some areas need continued observation, Fidelity says
Fidelity report finds Solana has had no mainnet outages in two years but flags stake, hosting and client concentration risks.
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Banks could slow stablecoin growth by paying savers more, BIS paper finds
A BIS working paper finds that small rises in US bank deposit rates slow stablecoin growth, cutting ten-week growth from 15% to 12%. This links stablecoin demand directly to bank competition.
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‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
Claude reportedly solved a long-running mystery about NSA-supplied numbers from the 1990s, which were suspected of hiding a backdoor. The snippet says they came from a basic program, and Bitcoin was not on that list.
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Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough
Google's Willow chip reportedly cuts errors about 40x in preparing quantum states, narrowing a hardware bottleneck for attacks on Satoshi-era bitcoin keys.
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Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST Curve Seeds to 1990s Timestamps
Anthropic says Claude traced NIST elliptic curve seeds to 1990s timestamps; not a cryptographic break, with published code covering nine seeds.
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Papertrade Pays Traders to Lose
Galaxy Research piece on Papertrade, a model where traders are paid to lose; worth a look for incentive design in crypto markets.
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Proving Humanity: Why the Agentic Web Urgently Needs Proof of Personhood
Galaxy argues the agentic web needs proof of personhood to tell humans from bots. A research piece on an important identity problem.
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Circle Says 59 Cents of Each Revenue Dollar Went to USDC Partners and Transaction Costs
Circle disclosed revenue split: 59 cents of each revenue dollar went to USDC partners and transaction costs, with 7 cents net profit in H1 2026.
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Fast post-quantum signature aggregation with lattice SNARKs
a16z crypto released Aerie, a scheme aggregating lattice-based signatures with lattice SNARKs for post-quantum settings.
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AI agent payments are they dying?
Token Terminal data shows x402 agent payments fell 84.7% from an August peak, with most volume likely small test or spam transactions.
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Tokenized Equities Reached $3.8 Billion This Year, DWF Labs Says
DWF Labs data shows tokenized equities hit $3.8B this year, with DEX spot volume up 55x since January.
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Bitcoin’s Volatility Has Fallen Within S&P 500 Ranks, Study Shows
Grayscale research finds bitcoin's realized volatility now falls in the same range as several S&P 500 stocks. Useful data point on bitcoin's maturation.
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US Hoovers up Bitcoin While the World Runs on Its Digital Dollars: Report
Chainalysis data shows the US holds a large share of bitcoin while much of the world uses dollar stablecoins.
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I analysed official Ethereum to 21 L2 bridge data and found something interesting
Analysis of official Ethereum-to-21-L2 bridge data finds about $105.5M potentially stuck, with 295,899 flagged bridge transactions and 210,392 wallets identified.
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Does private tokenization fragment RWA liquidity?
Asks whether private tokenized-asset networks fragment RWA liquidity away from DeFi, a useful structural question.
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Coinbase + Glassnode: Charting Crypto Q4 2026
Glassnode and Coinbase Institutional's quarterly report on bitcoin's early recovery and the on-chain and market data behind the outlook into year-end. Snippet gives little detail beyond the framing.
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One in four bitcoin is quantum exposed because of address reuse. Learn why that's a problem, and how to fix (most) of it without rushing.
Explains that about a quarter of bitcoin is quantum-exposed through address reuse and how to mitigate much of it.