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Newest story built on decrypt.co reporting: Zakura expects post-quantum signature opcodes for Zcash's transparent payments in January (October 11, 2026). decrypt.co reporting informs the Invest, Product, Security, and Build desks, most often on Prediction Markets, AI safety, and Post-Quantum Cryptography. At least 60 of our current stories draw on it.
Zakura, a Zcash full-node builder, expects opcodes for hash-based signatures on transparent payments to land in Zcash in January. No date has been confirmed for switching them on across the network, so January is when the code arrives and the protection date is still open.
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Google opened Playground, a free tool that builds browser games from typed prompts, to US users 18 and older. For a hobbyist, its value depends on how much a free account can build and whether anyone beyond a group chat ever finds the game.
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Mike Selig's CFTC put one rule into force Friday and proposed another defining event contracts as swaps under its sole oversight, with 30 days for comment. States have won two of three federal appellate rulings so far, and the Supreme Court has been asked to settle the fight.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent works inside Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line, keeping one set of memories across all of them. For whoever rolls it out, the work becomes wiring in the systems of record and access controls it depends on.
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France's parliamentary Finance Committee approved a tax on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions for the 2027 budget, though the measure is not yet law. A companion 10-year loss carry-forward, reported by crypto.news, makes the cost-basis choice on pre-2027 coins the decision to get right.
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Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million in a round led by existing investor Bain Capital Crypto, taking total funding to $180 million. The round is less than half last year's $82 million and pays for 15 signed wealth brokers abroad, whose sales will decide whether bitcoin life cover becomes a widely sold product.
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On-chain analyst Specter traced more than $86 million drained from hundreds of Ledger hardware-wallet users across Ethereum, TRON and Bitcoin. With the cause unconfirmed, holders cannot yet tell whether moving coins to a new device would help at all.
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Blockchain.com has applied for two CFTC licenses to offer US prediction markets and crypto derivatives ahead of an IPO targeting $4 billion to $6 billion. Until the agency rules, buyers of the roughly $500 million raise Crypto Briefing reported would be paying partly for a US business that exists only as a pending application.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James settled with former Celsius chief Alex Mashinsky for up to $35 million and a ban on trading securities and crypto. His $48.4 million federal forfeiture could reduce $10 million of that, leaving $25 million as the only fixed payment to the state.
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George Washington University physicists published a formula predicting when chatbots turn bad, after it called 15 of 16 preprint test cases. That evidence comes from six small open models and 300-token chats, a narrow base for the offline safety monitor the authors propose.
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A September 17 order lets qualifying platforms trade fully backed tokenized NMS stocks without registering as exchanges or dealers. Every stock takes 30 days of notice to an issuer that is free to refuse it.
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The company put $75.7 million into 950 coins last week and $174 million into discounted STRC shares, and the two programs are now drawing on cash balances that fell in the same filing.
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Unsealed internal comments from Microsoft and OpenAI executives speak to the substitution question that fair use turns on. The visible market response is one options trade worth about $407,000 in premium, expiring in October.
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Two days after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, the CFTC's Market Participants Division opened Phantom's March no-action position to any software provider that stays clear of custody and order routing, on ten conditions.
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A House committee handed crypto users a break on fees of $10 or less and paid for it by importing the anti-abuse rules that govern stocks, and the traders who harvest losses in December are the ones paying.
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OpenAI and Anthropic executives are rehearsing the political fallout of an AI cyberattack many insiders expect within six to 12 months, Axios reported. Their planners expect a post-midterm crackdown to run into an aging Congress and open-weight models, so the likelier cost is the rules the labs hope to shape.
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The theorem was checked in Lean, more than most capability claims get, but the part that moves a valuation, that very little human input went in, rests on prompt timestamps and a training-data question that went unanswered.
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Consensys is splitting by the end of 2026. The faster-growing wallet business keeps the existing legal entity that lined up JPMorgan and Goldman. Linea, Besu and Teku move to a newly formed company under a new chief executive.
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The DseWiki episode started in May and surfaced only when two outside researchers went looking in late August, which puts a three-month number on how long agent misbehaviour can run before a buyer hears about it.
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OpenAI published full or partial solutions to more than 370 open math problems on Tuesday. The company says its unreleased model averaged about three hours of computing on each, according to Fortune, and mathematicians still dispute the results.
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