Crypto entrepreneur Nic Carter claims that Bitcoin developers still have their "head in the sand" when it comes to making Bitcoin quantum-resistant, compared to Ethereum.
Martin Young
Martin is a staff writer at Cointelegraph. He is a technology and finance journalist with over two decades of experience covering cybersecurity and information technology. Based in Southeast Asia for more than 25 years, he previously worked as a correspondent and systems analyst for the Hong Kong–based Asia Times. Since 2017, Martin has focused on digital assets and blockchain reporting for multiple crypto publications, bringing expertise in forex trading, technical analysis, core blockchain technologies and cryptographic concepts to his financial coverage.
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Bitcoin exchange outflows show ‘genuine accumulation by investors’: Analyst Ongoing accumulation of Bitcoin is likely one of the factors behind why the cryptocurrency is trading in a tight range, say crypto analysts.
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Robinhood announces $1.5B share buyback as stock struggles in 2026 Shares in Robinhood fell to their lowest level this year on Tuesday as crypto and tech stocks are battered by geopolitical headwinds.
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Solana lands Mastercard, Western Union on new dev platform Solana is aiming to attract enterprises and financial institutions to its ecosystem through a new unified developer platform, which is focused on tokenization and stablecoins.
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Tron DAO expands AI fund to $1B as agentic economy race heats up The $1 billion AI fund targets investments in stablecoin rails, agent identity, tokenized RWAs and developer tooling for autonomous AI systems.
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Agentic AI commerce may spell the end of internet ads: a16z Crypto “The internet is civilization’s town square, and the economic contract is now obsolete,” wrote Sam Ragsdale on an a16z Crypto blog on Sunday.
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Gemini sued over post-IPO strategy shift, declining stock price Crypto exchange Gemini is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit over what a complaint alleges is an “abrupt corporate pivot to a prediction-market-centric business model” after its IPO.
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Major gold trade group releases framework for tokenized gold The World Gold Council says it will develop a platform to connect physical gold to the systems used to issue and manage tokenized gold products.
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Retail tripled gold buying in last 6 months as Wall Street sells “Retail-driven exuberance” in gold and silver ETFs and leveraged positions led to the end of the precious metals rally, reported the BIS.
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Polymarket buys DeFi startup Brahma in latest acquisition wave “Building reliable infrastructure across blockchain networks and traditional financial rails is hard,” said Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan.
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Bitcoin inflows to exchanges spike as BTC hits resistance at $75K Spikes in large deposits to exchanges have been associated with increased selling pressure, according to analysts at CryptoQuant.
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Meta to shutter Horizon Worlds metaverse on VR in favor of mobile Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is dropping VR support for its flagship metaverse world, which it launched in 2021 as part of the company's big gamble on virtual worlds.
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Messari’s new CEO is doubling down on AI as firm cuts staff Messari announced layoffs and a leadership change as new CEO Diran Li signaled a deeper push into AI-powered research and data tools for institutional clients.
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Trump ups pressure for Fed chair Powell to cut rates ‘right now’ “What’s a better time to cut interest rates than now? A third-grade student would know that,” said US President Donald Trump.
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AI data center gold rush sparks debate over impact on Bitcoin mining Crypto trader Ran Neuner said Bitcoin could be at risk if AI continues to pull miners away from the network, but others disagree.
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72% of subsea cables would need to fail to impact Bitcoin, study shows The past 11 years have shown that Bitcoin has been resilient to random intercontinental subsea cable failures, but could be susceptible to targeted attacks.
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Crypto miners must put their Bitcoin to work to survive: Wintermute Miners who treat their Bitcoin holdings as a working asset rather than a passive reserve “will carry a structural edge into the next halving,” says Wintermute.
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MEV bot makes $10M in $50M crypto swap gone wrong Aave founder Stani Kulechov says a user confirmed a warning to proceed with the swap, despite “extraordinary slippage,” while a MEV bot also attacked the large transaction.
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Crypto ATM losses surge 33% in 2025 as AI superpowers scams: CertiK Crypto ATMs or kiosks are the “lowest-friction extraction channel available to scammers,” said cybersecurity firm CertiK.
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AI agent payment volumes lower than reported, but adoption is growing: a16z Andreessen Horowitz partner Noah Levine says AI agents made $1.6 million in payments in the past month, which “is not a big number, but the infrastructure being built around it is.”
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‘Adoption paradox’ in effect as Ether lags while network activity surges Data shows that Ether price dynamics are being driven by capital flows rather than network activity growth, said CryptoQuant analyst Julio Moreno.
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Bitcoin will need 17% of ‘store of value’ market to hit $1M: Bitwise Bitcoin doesn't need to take 50% of gold's market share to reach one million dollars per coin if one is looking into the next 10 years, argues Bitwise's Matt Hougan.
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Vitalik Buterin envisions ‘one-click’ Ether staking for institutions “We want the authority over staking nodes to be highly distributed, and the first step to doing this is to make it easy,” said Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
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Oil tumbles, crypto gains as Trump sends mixed signals over Iran war “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” Donald Trump told reporters before posting on his social media platform later that “Death, Fire, and Fury” will reign upon Iran.
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BTC Markets eyes RWA trading license amid global tokenization wave The roughly $26 billion in tokenized assets onchain today “is really just the proof of concept,” said BTC Markets CEO Lucas Dobbins.
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Flow Foundation seeks court order to block FLOW delisting on Korean exchanges Flow Foundation is seeking a Seoul court order to halt planned FLOW delistings on three Korean exchanges following a December exploit that duplicated tokens.
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Bitcoin relief rally faces headwinds as bear market persists: analysts “Even after the recent price rally, fundamental and technical indicators still point to a bear market environment,” said CryptoQuant.
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Solana ETFs still hold ‘impressive numbers’ even as token dives 57% Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says Solana ETF inflows are posting “pretty impressive numbers,” even as the token has dropped by more than half since they launched.
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Dems plan bill to curb prediction markets after ‘very specific’ Iran strike bets Senator Chris Murphy says it’s likely people close to Donald Trump with “inside information” made bets on prediction markets on when the US would strike Iran.