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Every Research read CryptoBloggers has picked: 216 so far, 182 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
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Bitget, Liquid exploits push Q3 crypto hacks toward $1.2B
Hacken data attributes about 77% of Q3 crypto hack losses, near $1.2B, to compromised suppliers, developer tools and infrastructure outside security audits.
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Vitalik Says Ethereum's ZK Speed Race Is Won and Priority Shift Fully to Security
Vitalik says the speed race for zk proofs on Ethereum is won, shifting zkEVM priority to security. Cites ZKsync Airbender Prime proving 99% of proofs under 10 seconds across 7,200 blocks.
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AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny
Chainalysis finds x402 agent payments grew from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to over 138 million, mostly small and US-linked.
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Conditional Markets Are Beginning to Blossom: Decision Markets Scale, Impact Markets Head to Mainnet
Galaxy Research covers decision markets scaling and impact markets moving to mainnet, a useful look at where onchain prediction and funding mechanisms are heading.
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Crypto's Quantum Defense Is Being Built in the Open
Eigen's Yukon crowdsources AI-agent attacks and fixes to harden crypto against quantum threats, rather than retreating.
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Specter Links ProveX’s January ETH Inflows to Earlier Heart-Linked Funds
Onchain tracing links ProveX's January ETH inflows to funds tied to Richard Heart's campaign that promised no benefit to participants.
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Bubblemaps Alleges Anglio-Linked Wallets Traded Ahead of Pump.fun Calls
Bubblemaps alleges wallets linked to Anglio traded ahead of Pump.fun callouts, estimating $50K in trading profits.
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Standard Chartered pushes $2T stablecoin forecast to 2030 as transaction volumes grow
Standard Chartered forecasts a $2T stablecoin market by 2030, with USDC leading payments and AI transactions. Useful market data.
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'It Can Take Years': Coinbase Presses for Bitcoin Quantum Migration to Start Now
Coinbase argues Bitcoin's quantum migration must start now, laying out requirements for block space, custody and dormant coins.
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Boxed In
Glassnode weekly analysis: bitcoin sits below two-year cost basis and ETF selling resumed, but the base holds above the Realized Price.
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Canada crypto remittances to Asian countries surge 141% to $2.36B: Chainalysis
Chainalysis data shows Canadian crypto remittances to three Asian countries rose 141% to $2.36B.
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North America: Inside the Growth of Agentic Commerce
Chainalysis regional report on North America's crypto economy and the growth of agentic commerce.
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How Bitcoin Works
A long primer covering Bitcoin's rule enforcement, monetary design, fees, privacy, scaling, mining economics and Lightning.
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Clara Shikhelman, Elias Rohrer - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #426 Recap Podcast
Bitcoin Optech podcast covering BIP324 message type IDs, BIP tag conventions, and a proposal for private onchain transfers without consensus changes.
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How credible are the allegations about Blockstream’s mining business?
Asks for credibility assessment of serious allegations that Blockstream's cloud mining is a Ponzi scheme; the sourcing is a single partisan Substack.
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Researchers Build First Working Post-Quantum Defense for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Researchers report a working post-quantum signature defense for Lightning Network, a second-layer protection concern beyond base-layer Bitcoin. Details depend on the original paper.
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Pump.fun’s fee total needs its revenue breakdown alongside it
Asks which dashboard best separates Pump.fun's fee versus protocol revenue breakdown; a useful data-methodology question.
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Half of the top 20 quantum-exposed bitcoin addresses belong to exchanges and custodians, holding ~1.06M BTC
Weekly UTXO scan finds about 1.06M BTC in top quantum-exposed addresses, with half held by exchanges and custodians reusing addresses.
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Chainalysis Reactor Withstands Daubert Scrutiny Again on Appeal
Chainalysis Reactor's evidence has passed federal court admissibility review again on appeal, a notable result for blockchain forensics in court.
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Working Together on Bitcoin’s Post-Quantum Readiness
Coinbase discusses collaborating on Bitcoin's post-quantum readiness, a relevant long-term security topic (snippet is empty, so depth is unclear).
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Digital cash offers ‘cash-like privacy,’ but bank data breaches threaten users: BIS
BIS says digital cash can reach cash-like privacy but is not production-ready because of bank data breach risks.
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Bitcoin’s Quantum Wake-Up Call: 1.79 Million Exchange BTC Have Exposed Public Keys.
Analysis claims 1.79 million exchange-held BTC have exposed public keys, a quantum-risk exposure worth understanding, though sourced from a forum post.
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ARK’s Research Director Says Most Adviser Questions Are About Quantum, Not Token Revenue
ARK's Lorenzo Valente says wealth manager questions center on quantum risk rather than token revenue, and he is more confident Bitcoin will migrate signatures in time.
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IMF Finds Most Tokenized Equity Trading Happens Outside Regular Hours
IMF research finds most tokenized equity trading happens outside regular hours, showing real demand for 24/7 access but challenges in building liquid markets.
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Canton Records Over $155 Million in Q3 Fees, CertiK Says
CertiK reports Canton recorded over $155M in Q3 fees, with daily fee pace below an earlier Converge snapshot.
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BTC Market Pulse: Week 42
Glassnode's weekly on-chain pulse: BTC slipped below $83k, led by perp and ETF selling, while new on-chain capital kept arriving.
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(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
Filippo Filippo's practical guide to choosing post-quantum cryptography primitives; a useful technical reference, though the post is only lightly socially validated so far.
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Bitquery Says $10 Million Frozen in CryptoBilis-Linked Wallet Drains
Bitquery estimates $93.2M in losses across six chains tied to CryptoBilis-linked wallet drains, with about $10M frozen. Ledger has offered no repayment plan for affected buyers.
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Most Tokenized Stock Trading Happens Outside U.S. Market Hours, IMF Finds
IMF study finds most tokenized stock trading happens outside US market hours, with most trades under one share.
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ZKCBDC Patented by Microsoft
A Microsoft patent proposes a zero-knowledge design for central bank digital currencies that aims to balance privacy, solvency verification and resilience.