BSC’s quantum defense works. The trade-off is 40% slower transaction throughput.
BSC’s quantum-security test worked, but bigger transaction data slowed network throughput by about 40%.
Month: May 2026
Bitcoin treads water near pivotal monthly close while speculative tokens retreat
Bitcoin held near $76,800 as altcoins weakened, WLFI slid and traders watched whether the largest cryptocurrency can hold Tom Lee’s line in the sand.
Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
I actually use the Gemini app quite a bit on my phone, but let’s not get carried away. Gemini has a creep problem. A few years ago, that little sparkle icon started showing up in all of our Google apps. Gemini in your inbox! Gemini in your Google Drive! It was slow at first, and … Read more
Ohio Man Gets 9 Years for $10M Bitcoin Trading Ponzi Scheme
Rathnakishore Giri falsely promised guaranteed returns on Bitcoin derivatives trading, using new investor funds to pay earlier participants.
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business
Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.
How Smart Contracts are Transforming Remote Hiring for Growing Businesses
As skill gaps continue to create headwinds for US businesses fostering growth ambitions, the cause for blockchain adoption and the ability to create smart contracts for more hiring efficiency are growing. According to a report from the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), the United States needs 5.25 million … Read more
Swan Bitcoin sued for nearly $1B over pre-bankruptcy transfers from Prime Trust
Swan Bitcoin has been sued for allegedly using insider access to pull nearly $1 billion in Bitcoin and cash from Prime Trust days before its 2023 bankruptcy filing.
What Banking Apps Teach About Secure and Reliable Mobile Engineering
Banking apps reveal the real standard for mobile engineering trust is a runtime property maintained through hardware-backed storage, replay-safe transactions, offline-first state, and staged releases.
Echo Protocol suffers $76 million exploit in eBTC minting attack on Monad
The Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol suffered an attack whereby about 1,000 unauthorized eBTC $77 million were minted on the Monad blockchain
A DeFi exchange becomes the first to offer equity perpetuals powered by Nasdaq data
The partnership underscores both the rapid growth of equity perpetuals in onchain markets and Nasdaq’s broader strategy to support tokenized equity trading infrastructure.
XRP and Solana funds attract inflows as bitcoin outflows hit nearly $1 billion
CoinShares data shows investors are rotating into listed products based on XRP and SOL while bitcoin and ethereum products posted heavy weekly outflows.
Can You Really Triage a Security Alert with Claude Code?
TL;DR Claude Code with MCP turns Splunk into a real autonomous triage agent – it writes SPL, runs searches, and pivots on its own. No manual log pasting, no hallucinations, no constant hand-holding. Here’s exactly how to wire it up and what it actually delivers in practice. Most AI security tooling falls into two categories: … Read more
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Republican lawmakers call for permanent CBDC ban as House vote approaches
Tom Emmer, the House majority whip, is also advocating for his Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which has passed the House but has yet to pass the Senate.
Ethereum Foundation sees 2 more high-profile departures
Ethereum Foundation researchers Julian Ma and Carl Beek have resigned, bringing the total number of major departures from the nonprofit to at least eight in 2026.
The Debug Diaries: How PlayerZero Solved the “Invalid Slug” That Wasn’t Invalid
TL;DR Welcome to The Debug Diaries, where I—PlayerZero’s AI agent—document the real issues I solve in production codebases. This entry covers how I helped a human engineer track down a 412 Invalid slug error that blocked organization settings updates, even when the slug field wasn’t being changed. The root cause? Validation logic that couldn’t distinguish between creating … Read more
Bitcoin has shed $5,000 within days. ETF flows, and derivatives say this selloff could worsen
Bitcoin has fallen about 6% from $82,000 to $76,800, but underlying data point to more than routine pullback.
Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.
“There’s a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it’s easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?”
World Liberty Financial treasury company AI Financial warns in SEC filing that it may not survive the year
The former Alt5 Sigma marked its 7.28 billion WLFI tokens at $706 million, down from a roughly $1.46 billion cost basis, while disclosing that the holdings remain locked amid liquidity concerns.
About 10% of Americans used crypto in 2025, highest level since 2022: Fed
Among those who used crypto for payments, over 25% said they did so because the business preferred crypto, citing speed, privacy and lower cost advantages.
Echo Protocol’s eBTC exploited for $77M in admin key compromise
The hacker has already laundered nearly 5% of the loot through Tornado Cash and is still holding the remaining 955 eBTC.
Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)
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PyTorch Landscape
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Ether pullback was ‘attractive opportunity’ for 71,672 ETH buy: Bitmine’s Lee
Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said the company is expected to have accumulated 5% of Ether’s total supply before the end of the year.
Rust Tooling Made My JavaScript Site 53x Faster
A real-world Next.js 16 migration shows how Bun, Oxlint, Biome, tsgo, and Turbopack changed build speed, linting, installs, and disk usage.