Google Cuts Quantum Errors 40-Fold as Crypto Watches the Clock
Google cut magic state errors about 40-fold on its Willow chip. The result sharpens the quantum timeline Bitcoin and Starknet are already planning around.
BTCGoogle cut magic state errors about 40-fold on its Willow chip. The result sharpens the quantum timeline Bitcoin and Starknet are already planning around.
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Crypto hacks stole $1.18 billion across 107 incidents in Q3 2026, up 55%. Hacken traces 77% of the losses to suppliers and developer tools outside audits.
Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure firm Helius, joins the NEAR Foundation Council, where he will help guide product strategy and ecosystem growth.
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Fireblocks opened Liquidity Market on Thursday, letting payments firms pull stablecoin quotes from several OTC desks at once.
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 on Thursday and was back near $82,500 within two hours, as hot September CPI data and heavy ETF outflows weighed on crypto.
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Balaji Srinivasan's Network School is buying Farcaster from Neynar, rebranding it the Network State Protocol and asking users to accept a new social contract.
Russia will bar direct peer-to-peer crypto trades between individuals from July 1, 2027, requiring trades through licensed intermediaries under new rules.
Mastercard and BVNK launched a single-API platform that lets banks and fintechs hold, convert and spend stablecoins through Mastercard's card and payout rails.
Jeff Yan told Bloomberg's Odd Lots that US regulation should land on firms running markets on Hyperliquid, not the chain, as Payward plans regulated US perps.
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MSCI will apply a non-operating company screen from its November 2026 index review, with the final list of removals due on 11 November and effective 30
Ledger opened Atom reservations at $849 for a phone-like device with Solana Mobile's Seeker app preinstalled, as it investigates tampered wallets.
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OpenAI says an internal GPT-5.6 Sol research model ran out of Sepolia test ETH, found a funded wallet through a public recovery phrase and spent from it.
STRK holders have seven days to vote on whether Starknet should explore leaving Ethereum to run as an independent post-quantum layer 1. The poll closes Oct. 22.
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A Wall Street Journal investigation links Tether to about $6.3 million paid to a consulting firm Bo Hines co-owned while he shaped the GENIUS Act.
Zcash fell 16% in a week as CoinGlass showed $17.76 million in ZEC futures liquidations, mostly longs, with $2.25 billion of open interest still unwinding.
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Ripple Prime now clears 24/7 perpetual swaps on more than 100 reference markets, from equities to FX, through Trade.xyz contracts on Hyperliquid.
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Tron Inc filed a $200 million at-the-market offering with Clear Street to buy more TRX. The dilution table in its own prospectus shows who pays for it.
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Brooklyn's DA and the FBI seized 241 domains and 112 servers running a crypto scam aimed at Russian speakers, then pitched victims a fake recovery.
MSCI will implement rules excluding non-operating companies from its indexes, effective at the close of November 30, 2026, with the affected list due November
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost about $262 million on Wednesday, while XRP funds drew $740,000 and stayed the only category positive for the week.
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South Korea's FSC found security deficiencies at 130 of 555 financial companies, including 16 breached firms, and wants twice-a-year vulnerability checks.
US spot XRP ETFs added $11.31 million in the week ended October 9, extending inflows to 13 weeks, while net assets fell to $1.57 billion from $1.66 billion.
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ASIC has opened consultation on licensing, custody and capital rules for crypto platforms in Australia. Applications close 7 October 2027.
Bitcoin fell about 3% to near $81,000 after September CPI hit 3.7%, below the $81,500 cost basis of US spot ETFs, with whale holdings at 3.03 million BTC.
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