finance
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Interactive Brokers has launched Ethereum staking for eligible clients through zerohash, with rewards credited as additional staked ETH.
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Ripple and Meritz Securities are exploring institutional crypto custody and tokenization infrastructure for South Korea’s capital markets.
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Coinbase says Bitcoin should begin planning for a post-quantum migration now, with flexible outputs, staged protection and Bitcoin-specific signature testing.
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Blockchain.com has applied for CFTC registrations that could allow it to offer regulated crypto futures, options and prediction-market contracts to U.S. customers.
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Explore Roman coin debasement, the denarius and antoninianus, third-century inflation, Aurelian and Diocletian reforms, and what coin evidence can actually prove.
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Stablecoin payments company Rain has launched embedded wallets that partners can place directly inside their own apps. In its October 13 announcement, Rain said the non-custodial wallets support 12 blockchains and connect one balance to cards, virtual accounts, onramps, offramps and payouts. The supported networks include Ethereum, Solana, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Smart Chain,…
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Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney offering $20 million for certain assets and an IP license while the chatbot platform continues operating during the sale process.
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Martin Shkreli says quantum computing is overhyped for general-purpose business computing. His strongest point aligns with the industry’s unresolved hardware architecture problem, but his one-algorithm framing goes too far.
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Changpeng Zhao and Michael Saylor have independently landed on the same idea again: autonomous AI will need autonomous money. CZ has argued that AI agents will make vastly more payments than humans and that crypto is the natural rail for software-to-software transactions. That position also appeared in his Consensus Miami discussion, where he said blockchains…
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Visa has received approval from the People’s Bank of China to begin preparing a domestic bank-card clearing institution, but the company still needs a separate operating license before it can clear domestic transactions.
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A quantum computer cannot hack Bitcoin today. The longer-term risk is that a future fault-tolerant machine could recover private keys from exposed public keys faster than Bitcoin can migrate to quantum-resistant signatures.
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Strive bought 3,311 bitcoin for roughly $280 million, lifting its corporate Bitcoin treasury to 32,773 BTC as of October 9, 2026.
