coindesk 2 weeks ago

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is building a new programming language for the...

Hoskinson said on X the language will bundle transaction requests with cryptographic proofs. He hasn’t shared a name, specs or a r...

coindesk 2 weeks ago

Bitcoin mining offshoot Nscale loses Microsoft AI deal as power delay stretches...

The Nvidia-backed company planned to deliver 23,000 AI chips in the U.K. next year, but its grid connection may not be ready until...

coindesk 2 weeks ago

Zcash developers plan a fix to keep ZEC swaps private from future quantum comput...

The team behind Zakura wants every swap through NEAR Intents to get its own key, so a refund address left on NEAR’s public chain c...

coindesk 2 weeks ago

XRP Ledger is set to fix its lending code before anyone can use it

Validators have a bug-fix patch on course to go live Friday. The lending system it partly repairs is still 10 votes short of appro...

coindesk 2 weeks ago

Crypto audits give investors false sense of security as Q3 hacks cost $1.18 bill...

The security firm found that 77% of third-quarter losses involved compromised suppliers, delayed fixes or systems outside the late...

coindesk Oct 17, 2026

‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery

Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer...

coindesk Oct 17, 2026

Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow brea...

Google says its Willow chip can prepare the special quantum states needed for advanced calculations with about 40 times fewer erro...

coindesk Oct 16, 2026

Quantum Alliance forms amid warnings 6.4 million bitcoin face future quantum thr...

Nine crypto companies launched the Quantum Alliance to jointly prepare for quantum attacks, but they disagree on when the threat w...

coindesk Oct 16, 2026

An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own

The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then...

coindesk Oct 15, 2026

Under pressure Ledger unveils plan to turn its crypto hardware wallet into a sma...

Ledger’s Atom will run apps like WhatsApp and Instragram and let users switch between smartphone functions and a protected mode fo...