Crypto has spent years obsessing over speed, fees and scalability. Now it may have to confront a more existential question: what happens when its core security breaks? That question is moving from theory to urgency. Quantum computers, machines that use the principles of quantum physics to process information in fundamentally different ways than today’s computers, […]
Ethereum activated its highly anticipated “Fusaka” upgrade on Wednesday, marking the blockchain’s second major code change of 2025. The update is designed to help Ethereum handle the increasingly large transaction batches coming from the layer-2 networks that settle on top of it. The Fusaka upgrade, also sometimes called a “hard fork”, was triggered at 21:49 […]
Hopes for a quick reversal from the weekend crypto plunge faltered on Monday with bitcoin BTC$109,641.00 slipping all the way back below $110,000, just barely ahead of its then-euphoric price of $109,400 touched ahead of President Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. The largest crypto’s recovery attempt was quickly rejected at $113,000 during the U.S. session, and […]