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Crypto-focused investment arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, backing blockchain startups and publishing technical research on crypto and security.
a16z crypto researchers say Aerie aggregated 32,768 Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on a laptop, 29 times faster than leanVM on consensus signatures. Ethereum, which targets full quantum resistance by December 2029, has not committed to adopting it.
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Fortune and a16z crypto both say OpenAI's solutions to hundreds of long-open math problems do not themselves attack any encryption scheme. Fortune still argues the release signals an AI that may find flaws in banking's public-key algorithms; Stanford's Dan Boneh says nobody knows how the models fare at cryptography.
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HKT Payment is testing, in a Hong Kong regulator's sandbox, a blockchain 'agentic ID' that ties an AI agent's payments to a verified person or company. The pilot brings the question of whom an agent acts for under supervisory review, though the report describes a test and no rule.
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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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LZ Research argues validators can coordinate an equivocation attack that profits at any gain above zero while failed attempts escape slashing. The paper tests no live chain, but in its model the size of a validator's bond no longer decides whether the attack pays.
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Curators managing vaults on Morpho, a lending protocol with more than $3 billion in deposits, rely on offchain fees and subsidies, Crypto Briefing reports. A 10% cut of a 5% yield leaves the curator of a $100 million vault about $500,000 a year to run a risk team.
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LayerZero shipped a lattice-based proof component on Wednesday; Coinbase gathered Bitcoin developers and custodians at Stanford and left without a chosen signature scheme, which is the piece no date can order.
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Messari puts Morpho's outstanding loans at a record $5bn, with 95% of it stablecoin credit. About $1.3bn of that comes from Coinbase customers borrowing USDC against $2.5bn of cbBTC, and that prices out as a 52% loan-to-value book, not a leverage book.
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A16z crypto traces the demand back to a 2002 deposit decree and a $200 monthly purchase cap, which means the product Argentines buy on these apps is dollar access, and access now costs about 4% more than the bank's.
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Citadel Securities and DTCC are named on a blockchain exchange no retail user will touch. The work described so far is exploratory, and the launch window is fall 2026.
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The Sigma Capital-led round takes Beldex to $36 million raised. The roadmap it funds is wider than the cheque, and the institutional privacy bid it rides is mostly a token trade.
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Blockstream opened a beta of its atomic swap service a week after Boltz went dark. General availability has no date, and wallet teams are the ones carrying that gap.
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