One Italian Coder Just Won 1 BTC for the Largest Quantum Attack to Date
Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, jumping the field forward by a factor of 512.
Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, jumping the field forward by a factor of 512.
Dropped lawsuits, new ETFs, a token taxonomy, and a joint framework with the CFTC. Paul Atkins delivered almost everything the crypto industry asked for. But prediction markets just landed on his desk as an unresolved jurisdictional fight.
Justin Sun put $75M into WLFI and became its biggest early backer. He claims the team secretly added a blacklist function, froze his tokens, and threatened to burn them. The complaint uses the word extortion.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
Binance cut 12 spot pairs. Bybit removed 7 tokens entirely. Coinbase pulled DAI, TIME, and a dozen futures pairs. The cleanup happened while Consensus Miami was running.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business the US has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto since the war began in February. His phrasing was blunt: "Just outright grabbed the wallets. Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet has been grabbed." Iran was allegedly moving $400 to $500 million a month through crypto.
WLFI token hits an all-time low of $0.07 after collateral lending controversy. Justin Sun accuses Trump-affiliated DeFi platform of rigged governance and opaque token lockups.
Tether's USDT underpins $187 billion in crypto liquidity. It settles more daily volume than most traditional payment networks. If it failed, the damage would not be contained to one token. It would cascade through DeFi, centralized platforms, and emerging market payment rails simultaneously.
Project Eleven gave 1 BTC for a 15-bit quantum key recovery. Bitcoin developers redid the same job in 20 lines of pure random Python. Now even Project Eleven says it was not Q-Day.
Dollar-pegged tokens now move over $4 trillion a quarter and back over 80% of regulated B2B settlements. Understanding how they work is no longer optional for anyone holding crypto.
The proposal covers 62.28 billion WLFI tokens with stricter lockups, extended vesting, and a 10% insider burn. The governance reset lands as Justin Sun escalates a public dispute over frozen accounts and alleged smart contract backdoors.
Two Tron wallets holding $212.9M and $131.3M were blacklisted in a coordinated move with US authorities, roughly doubling Tether's previous record freeze.
PUSD moves into a network co-built by First Abu Dhabi Bank, opening a direct path into a $3 trillion finance corridor.
Tron is one of the highest-volume blockchains for stablecoin settlement, moving enormous USDT flows and anchoring much of the network’s activity to payments and transfers. This tag tracks USDT-on-Tron supply and volume, Justin Sun’s market-moving statements and ventures, the network’s DeFi and staking ecosystem, the regulatory scrutiny around its founder and operations, and Tron’s growing overlap with US-listed vehicles. Coinliva covers the on-chain data, the founder narrative, and Tron’s role as a dominant stablecoin rail.