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Ethereum’s post-quantum migration could create a problem for regulated banks years before any quantum computer poses a real threat to validator keys.Thomas Brunner, Sygnum Bank’s Head of Custody and Staking, thinks differently about quantum risk in crypto than most people do.Ethereum’s Post-Quantum team says layer-1 upgrades could be completed by 2029, though it stresses there is no fixed date and the roadmap can still shift. The plan starts with a post-quantum validator-key registry before eventually replacing today’s BLS validator signatures with hash-based alternatives such as leanXMSS.Ethereum shows why bank backups become the dangerBLS is the signature scheme that Ethereum validators…

Tether says KPMG issued an unqualified opinion on Tether International’s 2025 financial statements, its first full audit from a Big Four accounting firm. The audited numbers show reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion as of Dec. 31, 2025.Quarterly reserve attestations confirm a snapshot of assets against liabilities. A full financial-statement audit examines the balance sheet, transactions, counterparties, and underlying evidence, and Tether says KPMG even physically counted every gold bar in its reserves.Transparency itemReserve attestationFull financial-statement auditGENIUS-style regimePoint-in-time reserve snapshotYesYesYesFull balance sheet reviewLimitedYesExpectedTransactions and counterpartiesLimitedYesExpectedLiability verificationYesYesYesOngoing liquidity-risk managementNoNot the main purposeYesMonthly public reportingNoNoYesWeekly confidential regulator reportingNoNoYesStanding supervisory frameworkNoNoYesTether CEO Paolo…

Tether announced on 13 August that KPMG U.S. completed a full audit of Tether International, S.A. de C.V.’s financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025 and issued an unqualified opinion. CFO Simon McWilliams said the audited statements report reserves exceeding liabilities by US$6.814 billion (AU$9.68 billion). The audit complements Tether’s quarterly reserve attestations, which continue: BDO prepared the Q2 2026 report published on 31 July. Tether announced on 13 August that KPMG U.S. has issued an unqualified opinion on the financial statements of Tether International, S.A. de C.V., the entity that issues USDT, delivering a full audit the…

The S&P 500 closed Thursday at a record 7,798.99, while Bitcoin traded at $63,347.73, only a few hundred dollars above an on-chain level that had absorbed every test above it for more than a month.Sellers appear increasingly exhausted, yet new demand remains too weak to pull price away from support, even on a day when the wider market offered a favorable backdrop.US producer prices were unchanged in July from the prior month, the 10-year Treasury yield eased to 4.64% from 4.68% late Wednesday, and Brent crude fell 2.1%. The inflation details were mixed, with the measure excluding food, energy and…

The bridge account held 200,409.87 XRP immediately before the first payment and holds 493.54 XRP now, ledger records show. Every payment was sent by the bridge account itself, carrying 17 signatures from a signer list of 28 relayer keys. tx halted the bridge and says it has identified the vulnerability; co-founder Reza Bashash attributes it to a relayer bug combined with the XRP Ledger’s DefaultRipple feature. An attacker emptied the XRP Ledger account behind tx’s cross-chain bridge on 9 August, moving nearly 200,000 XRP to two wallets over 97 minutes and leaving the account with 493.54 XRP. Ledger records put…

Hougan argues crypto valuations may have significant room to rise as protocols increasingly return revenue to token holders through buybacks and burns. Hyperliquid, Uniswap, Aave, Pump.fun and Lighter demonstrate different approaches to connecting protocol activity with native-token economics. Revenue capture is also reaching layer-1 networks, although token holders remain exposed to changing community-set tokenomics rather than equity-style rights. Crypto assets could at least double in value as more blockchain protocols turn their revenues into token buybacks and burns, according to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan. He said investors have not yet priced in the growing relationship between protocol revenue and native-token…

On Aug. 13, Trezor said a breach at the fulfillment provider ShipMonk exposed customer data for about 13,689 hardware wallet buyers, including the delivery addresses of 11,742 people.The larger group had their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses exposed, while another 1,947 customers had names, cities, and email addresses compromised. ShipMonk handled the information to fulfill and deliver Trezor orders.Trezor said its own systems, devices, and services were not breached and that customer wallets remain secure. The exposure instead creates a different risk: linking identifiable people and, in most cases, their home addresses to the purchase of a…

Rosherville is seeking court permission to pursue former ASX officials over alleged breaches connected to the failed CHESS replacement. The blockchain project was paused in November 2022 and abandoned in May 2023 after an Accenture review identified significant problems. ASX later faced ASIC enforcement, admitted misleading conduct and was ordered to pay A$16.5 million in penalties and costs. An ASX shareholder plans to ask the Federal Court for permission to launch a statutory derivative action against former directors and officers over alleged breaches of duty linked to the exchange’s abandoned blockchain-based CHESS replacement. Rosherville Pty Ltd has notified ASX that…

Soluna Holdings, a renewable-powered data center operator spanning Bitcoin mining and developing AI infrastructure, reported rapid revenue growth in the second quarter alongside weaker consolidated profitability.The company reported $15.1 million of revenue for the three months ended June 30, up 145% from $6.2 million a year earlier. A new presentation of pass-through electricity costs added $4.4 million to both revenue and cost of revenue, with no effect on gross profit, operating loss or net loss. Excluding that change, revenue still grew 73%.Project Kati 1 completed 48 MW of construction and recorded its first positive site gross profit of $82,000. Project…

Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT) recorded a $66.8 million decrease in net assets from operations during its first 85 days, even as the exchange-traded fund brought in $371.1 million of gross share contributions against $5.26 million of redemption distributions.The trust’s first quarterly filing shows creations dominated redemptions while Bitcoin fell. Redemption distributions equaled 1.42% of gross contributions from April 7 through June 30.Unrealized Bitcoin depreciation accounted for $66.17 million of the operating-period decrease, nearly 99%. The balance consisted of $618,611 in realized Bitcoin losses and $72,288 in sponsor fees, distinguishing the $66.86 million accounting result from an ETF outflow measure.Morgan…