HashKey Cloud backs Stacks’ Genesis Bond to prove institutional appetite for native Bitcoin yield
Stacks founder Muneeb Ali said on Aug. 27 via X that HashKey Cloud will deploy Bitcoin in Stacks, making the Asian infrastructure provider the second institution announced for the network’s Genesis Bond pilot. HashKey will time-lock BTC on Bitcoin,…
Bitcoin now has a quantum computing escape route, but 7 million BTC may still be exposed
Bitcoin has confirmed a quantum-resistant transaction on mainnet using its existing consensus rules, showing that some holders could migrate funds away from future quantum risk without waiting for a protocol upgrade. The Aug. 26 transaction used a…
Bitcoin is trapped between $75,000 and $80,000 ahead of a massive Friday derivatives settlement
Bitcoin is trading between $80,000 and $78,000, and faces two option strikes that could shape dealer hedging into Friday. Reported call exposure at $75,000 and $80,000 creates a test of whether those positions dampen Bitcoin’s next move or add force to a…
Thailand is rewriting its stock exchange rules to trap billions in Bitcoin ETF wealth strictly inside its own borders
Thailand is proposing a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) framework that would give domestic fund managers, the Stock Exchange of Thailand and locally regulated custodians a structural advantage as the country opens the market to Bitcoin and Ethereum…
A hidden Bitcoin node database just shrank by 40 GB, but only if runners rebuild it
Bitcoin Core has merged a redesign of its optional transaction index that cut about 40 GB from the database in one contributor’s mainnet test. Operators using -txindex retain their existing indexes through an upgrade; capturing the full saving…
Bitcoin miner Sphere 3D faces $2.2M tariff claim equal to 77% of its cash
Crypto miner Sphere 3D said it could face approximately $2.2 million in supplemental US tariffs, before interest, on Bitcoin miners purchased in 2022 by a subsidiary it now owns. The company said in an Aug. 24 filing that US Customs and Border Protection…
Bitcoin’s 7 million coin quantum problem just reached the US Treasury
The US Treasury has formally brought digital assets into the financial sector’s preparations for quantum computing threats. On Aug. 24, the US Treasury launched its Quantum-Readiness Task Force, with one of three workstreams dedicated to digital assets…
FalconX asks SEC to bring single-stock perpetuals from DeFi under swap rules
FalconX Bravo wants US regulators to treat cash-settled perpetuals tied to a single security or a narrow-based security index as security-based swaps under SEC rules when they fall outside the joint SEC-CFTC security-futures framework. The filing…
Users warned to pull funds immediately as EU sanctions force crypto platform into withdrawal-only mode
NoOnes has entered withdrawal-only mode weeks after telling users that an EU sanctions listing named a separate company and did not affect the platform or its operator. The crypto platform strongly recommended that customers remove their full balances no…
Bitcoin Core considers dropping encrypted routing support as poor node health exposes users to eclipse attacks
Bitcoin Core contributors are weighing whether a thinly used network transport offers valuable insurance or has become a liability too costly to retain. In the open CJDNS support discussion, Bitcoin Core member Andrew Chow said one seeder database held…