What is the Q-Day prize? The Q-Day Prize is a challenge to make the Bitcoin network quantum resistant.On April 16, 2025, quantum computing-focused company Project 11 announced the “Q-Day Prize,” a competition to break a “toy version” of Bitcoin’s c

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.Happy Tuesday! Crypto-related equities jumped at the open this morning as U.S. inflation data cooled for a third straight month, pushing he

Bitcoin mining firm American Bitcoin is going public through a merger with crypto mining company Gryphon Digital Mining, the companies announced on May 12.Under the terms of the deal, Gryphon Digital Mining will acquire American Bitcoin in a stock-fo

Exponential has launched a DeFi platform called YO — short for "yield optimizer" — with the hopes of revolutionizing the space for both pros and beginners."DeFi is an incredible ecosystem because it provides value that was previously reserved for ban

Optimism deposits and withdrawals on OP mainnet were restored on May 12th, following a temporary suspension, according to an official statement. The reopening allows on-chain transfers to proceed under normal conditions.OP InfoOptimism is a Layer 2 (

QuarkChain will conduct a governance snapshot on May 13th to record token balances ahead of an upcoming vote regarding the migration of the network to an Ethereum Layer 2 environment.The snapshot will define voter eligibility and weighting for the su

Hedera will retire the MyHbarWallet gRPC-Web proxies for mainnet, testnet and previewnet on June 2nd. From this date, browser-based dApps that rely on these proxies must migrate to alternative connectivity solutions to maintain functionality.The chan

Bitcoin Analysis for Today: tradeCompass Highlights Critical Levels Near $104,265Today's Bitcoin Futures (BTC) are trading at approximately $104,265, slightly below today's Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) at $104,530, signaling mild intraday bea

Tinian, a small island in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, could get a second chance at launching a stablecoin after the territory’s Senate voted to override the governor’s earlier veto of its stablecoin bill.On May 9, the Northern M

Bitcoin mining firm MARA Holdings (MARA) nearly tripled its Bitcoin holdings over 12 months, according to its newly released Q1 results.However, its Bitcoin production fell, and total earnings slightly missed Wall Street estimates in Q1.MARA, formerl

Bitcoin approached the $100,000 threshold on Wednesday after teasing a big international trade deal by US President Donald Trump. The agreement, as reported by The New York Times, will be with the United Kingdom and is to be formally announced at the

LCX will release a redesigned website in May. Refer to the official tweet by LCX: Major Upgrades Underway! 🚀LCX recently launched our biggest backend upgrade ever. But we aren’t stopping there!Over the coming weeks and months we'll be releasing eve

LCX will make several KYC improvements in May. Refer to the official tweet by LCX: Major Upgrades Underway! 🚀LCX recently launched our biggest backend upgrade ever. But we aren’t stopping there!Over the coming weeks and months we'll be releasing ev

LCX will add more payment methods in May. Refer to the official tweet by LCX: Major Upgrades Underway! 🚀LCX recently launched our biggest backend upgrade ever. But we aren’t stopping there!Over the coming weeks and months we'll be releasing even mo

LCX will release a mobile app upgrade in May. Refer to the official tweet by LCX: Major Upgrades Underway! 🚀LCX recently launched our biggest backend upgrade ever. But we aren’t stopping there!Over the coming weeks and months we'll be releasing eve

Dogecoin has spent the better part of three years digesting its 2021 blow-off-top, yet the popular meme-coin may be about to leave the consolidation range behind, according to a fresh weekly chart shared on X by the pseudonymous analyst Maelius (@Mae

Major digital assets rose late Thursday afternoon, with Bitcoin (BTC/USD) topping the $101,000 level. The CoinDesk Market Index, which tracks dozens of digital assets including Bitcoin, increased 6.8% in the past 24 hours. The Nasdaq 100 rose 1.2% in

TL;DR‘The Bull Run Has Begun’The second-largest cryptocurrency has been among the biggest disappointments of the market during this cycle. It not only failed to chart a new all-time high, but it also trades now lower than it did before the US electio

Tech giant Meta is considering stablecoin integration years after suspending its previous crypto project, Diem, Fortune reported, citing five people familiar with the matter.Meta reportedly plans to use stablecoins to reduce the costs of payments com

The Arbitrum Foundation announced Thursday that the Arbitrum DAO has approved the next phase of its Stable Treasury Endowment Program (STEP), following an onchain vote.The program will allocate 35 million ARB, worth around $11.6 million at current pr