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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna (Alex Wong/Getty Images) IBM expects quantum computing to contribute to revenue and profit by 2028 or 2029, CEO Arvind Krishna said. Companies including Alphabet, IonQ and Rigetti are racing to commercialize the technology. Bitcoin miners and the crypto industry are watching quantum's infrastructure needs and long-term security implications. Quantum computing may be approaching its biggest milestone yet: generating meaningful commercial revenue, according to IBM CEO Arvind

Crypto faces three major headwinds before next bull run, STS Digital CEO says. (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash) STS Digital CEO Maxime Seiler says institutional volatility-selling, AI investment and delayed U.S. crypto regulation are suppressing crypto prices. Traditional financial firms are rapidly adopting blockchain infrastructure, though much of the value is accruing to incumbents rather than crypto tokens, Seiler says. According to Seiler, the next major crypto rally will require regulatory cl

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) granted Circle a limited purpose trust charter. (Michael Discenza/Unsplash) Circle Internet Group, Inc. (CRCL), the issuer of USDC, the world’s second-largest stablecoin, announced Friday that it secured a limited purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). The trust charter is an official state banking authorization that allows the holder to legally provide fiduciary, custody and asset-management service

(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Analysts broadly agreed Coinbase's earnings miss reflected weak crypto markets rather than execution issues. Firms pointed to record market share gains and diversification into stablecoins, derivatives and subscriptions as long-term positives. Debate now centers on whether crypto trading volumes rebound soon enough to support earnings growth. Coinbase's (COIN) second-quarter earnings did little to change Wall Street's long-term view. Most analysts blamed one of

Real world assets like oil are getting perpified, argues Lee (Getty Images/Jordan Lye) Tokenization has gotten nods of approval from the Larry Finks of the world. It’s top of mind for every large financial institution. Blackrock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton are just some of the many that have tokenized their assets. Over $34 billion worth of assets have already been tokenized and that’s excluding the $300 billion in tokenized dollars. But there is one other mechanism that’s scaling faster and I

The Islamic Republic Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is Iran's most powerful and influential military, political and economic institution. (Fars Media Corporation/Wikimedia Commons) A vast Dubai-based illegal gambling network is allegedly channeling millions of dollars in cryptocurrency through Shelbit, an unlicensed exchange at the center of a $4 billion Iranian sanctions-evasion scheme, according to Reuters. Shelbit, run by Iranian expatriate Siavash Kayvanpour, has allegedly moved hundreds

2026 FIFA World Cup winners Spain (Getty Images) The 2026 FIFA World Cup saw $20 billion in prediction market volume, blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said on Thursday. The figure encompassed activity across nearly 400,000 wallets starting in January 2026. The soccer tournament represented by far the biggest prediction market event in terms of volume, shattering the $3.6 billion placed during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. The 2026 FIFA World Cup generated a record $20 billion in predi

U.S. sanctions Iran-linked bitcoin insurance scheme for Strait of Hormuz ships. (Getty Images) The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two Iranian maritime insurance entities, Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company and HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority, accusing them of running an extortion scheme that funneled funds to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury said the so-called insurance, which could be paid for in bitcoin and other digital assets, forced ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz to

After a positive July, the mood is turning bearish for August. (Yorgos Ntrahas/Unsplash) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. As July ends, the options market is reflecting a major shift in positioning. The $60,000 bitcoin BTC $ 63,115.87 put option, a position protecting against a price drop, is now the most popular bet on Deribit, the world’s largest crypto options exchange. As of this writing, that put had a notional open interest of $1

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data) Bitcoin is down 1.31% to $63,870 and ether 1.40% to $1,890 on the last day of July, diverging sharply from equities as South Korea's Kospi surged 15% and Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 1.23%. UNI rose 9.30% on continued Robinhood layer-2 momentum and ADA gained 4.09% as the week's clearer bright spots in an otherwise difficult end to the month. The CoinDesk 20 Index has gained 8.7% since June, the biggest monthly advance since July last year. The crypto market is clo

The state of New York sued Kalshi alleging it offers sports and event wagers without a gaming license. New York State sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, accusing it of running an unlicensed gambling business and seeking to bar it from operating in the state. Attorney General Letitia James said Kalshi’s event contracts are illegal bets, including on sports, elections and culture, and alleges the platform allows underage wagering. The lawsuit, filed in the New York Supreme Court, seeks triple

Aerial view of a data center (Geoffrey Moffett/Unsplash) Tokyo-listed Quantum Solutions sold 1,000 ETH for $1.9M, taking its sales since June to 1,904 ETH, or 29% of its starting balance. The firm’0s board raised the sale cap to 4,375 ETH through Oct. 30, nearly 66% of June holdings, although 3,050 of its remaining ETH is pledged. Another crypto treasury firm Hyperscale Data monetized about 100 BTC and opened a bitcoin-backed credit facility at a 4.5%-5% rate to fund its Michigan AI campus. Toky

BTC's daily chart with Bollinger bands and bandwidth indicators. (TradingView) Bitcoin trading has entered one of its quietest stretches since January, with prices largely stuck between $62,000 and $65,000. Bollinger bandwidth on bitcoin’s daily price chart has tightened to the narrowest since the start of the year, signaling a significant squeeze in volatility. Such prolonged periods of tight trading ranges have historically preceded sharp moves in bitcoin’s price, though the direction of the n

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Bitcoin flat near $64,000 as Kospi's record 17% surge leaves crypto untouched (Asa E K/Unsplash) Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies were largely flat around $64,300 despite a powerful rebound in global equity and chip stocks. South Korea’s Kospi index surged as much as 17%, led by big gains in Samsung, SK Hynix and Taiwan Semiconductor after a sharp two-week selloff. A security flaw in certain Coldcard hardware wallets allowed hackers to drain about 594 bitcoin, worth roughly $38 million, withou

Coldcard flaw lets attacker drain $38 million in bitcoin from old wallets. (Coinkite) An attacker exploited a flaw in how some Coldcard hardware wallets generated keys to steal roughly 594 bitcoin, worth about $38 million, from around 500 single-signature wallets in under 30 minutes. The vulnerability, introduced in Coldcard firmware 4.0.0 in March 2021, caused devices to skip their hardware randomness generator and fall back to predictable software-based key generation seeded by nonsecret chip

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor at the Digital Asset Summit in New York City on March 20, 2025. (Nikhilesh De) Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, reported an $8.2 billion second-quarter net loss driven almost entirely by an $8.32 billion unrealized markdown on its bitcoin holdings under fair-value accounting. The company now holds 843,775 bitcoin worth about $54.8 billion at current prices versus a $63.7 billion acquisition cost, and has raised $17.06 billion th

Coinbase reported worse-than-expected second-quarter results after crypto's Q2 selloff reduced trading activity, with investors focused on whether subscription revenue helped offset weaker transaction fees. Shares fell about 5 % in after-hours trading. Investors will look to Coinbase's earnings call for updates on guidance, derivatives, prediction markets, Base and other efforts to diversify beyond trading revenue. Coinbase (COIN) shares fell roughly 5% in after-hours trading Thursday after the

A group of major lenders settled real cross-border payments using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits across six currencies in a major test of the technology stack. The test processed about $1 million in transfers through 30 transactions that settled in roughly 80 seconds on a shared ledger, improving traceability while operating alongside existing payment systems. By enabling simultaneous foreign-exchange settlement and a single shared record of ownership, the project a

Ondo Finance eyes acquisition worth up to $500 million. (Frederick Warren/Unsplash) Ondo Finance is evaluating a potential $250 million-$500 million acquisition, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Formal advisers have not been appointed, the person said, as the tokenized-assets firm weighs expansion through M&A. Crypto dealmaking remains robust in 2026, with tokenization and institutional infrastructure among the hottest acquisition targets as firms seek scale. Tokenized asset s