Hong Kong's HKMA has launched a Quantum Preparedness Index and given banks until 2030 to become quantum-secure, directly tied to the city's tokenized-finance push.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota's first-in-the-nation prediction market ban, finding federal law likely preempts the state felony statute.
Microsoft's MDASH multi-agent system scored 88.45% on CyberGym, outpacing Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 while claiming half the cost of its prior setup.
AscendEX, BitMEX, and BitMart have all announced shutdowns within two weeks. What the cluster of CEX closures means for crypto consolidation and Hyperliquid.
Total crypto market cap drops 2.82% to $2.25T as the Fear & Greed Index hits 29. HYPE leads 24h losses at -5.9%, while BTC holds above $63K with 56.3% dominance.
Lido's Curated Module v2 migrates 8M+ staked ETH to a bond-backed operator model, potentially cutting Ethereum's total validator count by roughly one-third.
Securitize Capital LLC is now SEC-registered as an investment adviser, adding a fifth regulated function to its tokenized real-world asset platform alongside its broker-dealer and transfer-agent licenses.
Prediction market traders on Polymarket and Myriad have pushed July Fed rate-hike odds to 27% in 24 hours, rattling a crypto market already sitting at Fear & Greed 30.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned the $131B crypto vault and onchain lending sector it cannot outrun federal securities law, citing the Howey Test and structural risk.
Circle, the USDC stablecoin issuer, is acquiring IBM's blockchain patent portfolio — nearly 1,000 patents across 680+ families — ahead of its planned IPO.
