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Are NIST Elliptic Curves Backdoored? Claude Solves the 25-Year Seed Mystery
Anthropic says Claude found that NIST's curve seeds came from a 1990s random number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, not a hidden backdoor.
October 17, 2026
Vitalik Says zkEVM Speed Race Is Won — Now Proving the Prover Is the Real Test
Vitalik Buterin declares the zkEVM speed race won and urges formal verification after ZKsync's Airbender Prime proved Ethereum blocks on one GPU.
October 17, 2026
Circle Discloses $1.4 Billion H1 Revenue, Paying 59% to USDC Partners
Circle paid $819 million, or 59% of its $1.4 billion first-half revenue, to USDC distribution partners while settling $36 trillion in onchain transactions.
October 17, 2026
Judge Refuses to Erase Gemini’s $5 Million CFTC Settlement
Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected a joint Gemini-CFTC request to erase the exchange's $5 million settlement, keeping the penalty and injunction intact.
October 17, 2026
Cobo to Shut Down Retail Wallet App in December, Charging 2% Monthly on Remaining Funds
Cobo's retail wallet app shuts down on December 1, and any balances not withdrawn in time will be charged a 2% monthly fee with a $100 minimum.
October 17, 2026
Charles Schwab Opens Bitcoin and Ether Trading to All Eligible Clients
The largest U.S. brokerage now lets every eligible client trade Bitcoin and Ether directly, with three more coins scheduled to arrive by year-end.
October 17, 2026
Japan’s Three Megabanks Confirm Their Shared Yen Stablecoin Works in Pilot
Three Japanese megabanks cleared a joint yen-stablecoin pilot with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust, moving a deposit-backed token closer to corporate use.
October 17, 2026
SBI and Startale Join Open Standard to Pilot Yen-Dollar Stablecoin Settlement
SBI Holdings and Startale Group joined the Open Standard alliance behind the OUSD dollar stablecoin and will pilot linking it with the yen-denominated JPYSC.
October 17, 2026
Fission Raises $10M Series A Led by Pantera Capital for Tokenized Fund Liquidity
The tokenization startup adds Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital and other investors as it expands liquidity for on-chain investment funds.
October 16, 2026
What Are Stablecoin Cards? Coinbase and Marqeta Expand Enterprise Payments
Marqeta is extending its Coinbase relationship so businesses can issue cards that let customers spend stablecoin balances at millions of merchants.
October 16, 2026
Strive Prices Upsized $630 Million Bitcoin Preferred Stock — Demand Ran Ahead of the Plan
Strive priced its upsized preferred offering at $90 a share, raising about $630 million as demand for bitcoin-linked yield ran ahead of its $500 million plan.
October 16, 2026
RedotPay Co-Founder Speaks on Stablecoin Payments and Global Expansion
JC explains how RedotPay advaces stablecoin payments, global transfers, financial inclusion, and secure crypto spending through regulated payment solutions.
October 16, 2026