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Bitcoin embraces station quantum future
Despite sizeable skepticism among Bitcoiners astir however adjacent the quantum menace to Bitcoin is, 2 stories this week highlighted the advancement being made toward upgrading the blockchain and protecting outputs from attack.
StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction connected the Bitcoin mainnet that protects it during the little play erstwhile nationalist keys are exposed successful the mempool.
Onchain information shows that StarkWSare spent a 10,000-satoshi output protected by Levy’s Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) strategy which combines hash-based one-time signatures with computational searches that hindrance an authorization to a circumstantial transaction. It’s much of a past edifice than a applicable measure, arsenic each transaction takes hours and costs $150 to $200.
On August 27, Blockstream researchers published a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal to upgrade Bitcoin with the SHRINCS signature scheme. The researchers person slimmed down a immense hash based station quantum signature by astir 13.23 times — but it’s inactive 9 times larger than Bitcoin’s existing signatures and comes with a clump of commercialized offs.
Blockstream Research’s Jonas Nick called it “the archetypal factual proposal for a post-quantum signature strategy designed specifically for Bitcoin.” While helium said it was “not optimal on each axis” helium added:
”I bash deliberation it is simply a precise bully trade-off among the options we person now,” helium said.
Solana validators ballot to chopped ostentation to 1.5% successful 2.8 years
Solana validators person approved a connection to treble the network’s yearly disinflation rate, reducing issuance by 18.9 cardinal SOL implicit the adjacent six years.
According to finalized voting results, the connection received 67% support, with 25.16% voting against and 7.84% abstaining. Overall information reached 60.7% of eligible stake.
The proposal, known arsenic SGP-0002 oregon Double Disinflation, increases Solana’s yearly disinflation complaint from 15% to 30%, portion leaving the network’s semipermanent ostentation people of 1.5% unchanged.
Under the caller schedule, Solana is expected to scope its 1.5% terminal ostentation complaint successful astir 2.8 years, compared with astir 5.7 years nether the erstwhile schedule.
Transactions connected Solana reached grounds highs successful July. Onchain data presented by The Kobeissi Letter showed that Solana processed a grounds 4.2 cardinal transactions during the month, up 13.5% from June. Transaction counts person risen by astir 2 cardinal since December, representing a 91% increase.
Trump outgo investors $4.7B done crypto ‘schemes’: Public Citizen
Nonprofit user advocacy enactment Public Citizen claims that US President Donald Trump “left investors astatine slightest an estimated $4.7 cardinal underwater” since 2022 through his and his family’s integer plus ventures.
It’s caller study states that investors lost $3.2 cardinal via his memecoin Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin, astatine slightest $1 cardinal connected the World Liberty Financial governance token, $450 cardinal connected Trump Media’s integer plus treasury and $9.3 cardinal connected the president’s nonfungible token (NFT) trading cards launched successful 2022.
Holders of the USD1 stablecoin nevertheless were sitting beauteous connected $0 losses.
Trump’s crypto profits are 1 of the cardinal factors holding up transition of the CLARITY Act successful September, with Democrats digging successful connected stronger protections to forestall elected officials from profiting by issuing cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin rally lone conscionable getting started
BlocksBridge Consulting reported this week that that Bitcoin’s 23% rally implicit the past week had outpaced astir AI-linked infrastructure stocks.
Three beaten-down Bitcoin mining companies — Canaan, American Bitcoin and Cango — gained betwixt 41% and 67%. By comparison, CoreWeave roseate astir 21%, Nebius gained 17% and IREN precocious 15%.
The Bitcoin ETFs have minted much than $3.3 cardinal successful August, for the strongest period since October 2025’s each clip high. Outflows connected Friday ended a 9 time blistery streak however.
Wall Street analysts from Bernstein foretell we are astatine the commencement of a caller 4 twelvemonth cycle. It forecasts Bitcoin volition reclaim $125,000 nether some its basal lawsuit and bull lawsuit scenario, and volition highest astatine $300,000 successful 2029 nether the basal lawsuit but apical $500,000 that twelvemonth nether its bullish scenario.
Revolut rolls retired euro stablecoin successful 3 European markets
Revolut has begun rolling retired its archetypal stablecoin, a euro-pegged token called EURR, to astir 2 cardinal customers successful Denmark, Poland and Portugal.
The phased rollout volition grow to different European Economic Area (EEA) markets aboriginal this year, taxable to product, operational and regulatory readiness.
EURR is issued by Bridge Building S.A., the Luxembourg-based entity of Stripe-owned stablecoin infrastructure institution Bridge. Revolut said EURR volition beryllium integrated into its retail app, with plans to enactment aggregate blockchain networks and transfers to outer wallets. It’s launching connected the Ethereum network.
Winners and Losers
At the extremity of the week, Bitcoin (BTC) is up 1.1% to commercialized astatine $78,420, Ethereum (ETH) is up 0.6% to commercialized astatine $2,469 and XRP (XRP) is down 8.7% to $1.38. The full marketplace headdress is astatine $2.64 trillion according to CoinMarketCap.
Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the apical 3 altcoin winners of the week are VeChain (VET) with an 18.5% gain, SPX6900 (SPX) connected 17.3%, and Uniswap (UNI) connected 15.2%.
The apical 3 altcoin losers of the week are Aptos (APT) which was down 16.4%, Stable (STABLE) down 14.7% and Morpho (MORPHO) down 13.6%.
Prediction of the Week
Bitcoin carnivore marketplace ‘over’ arsenic terms metric copies 2023 recovery: CryptoQuant CEO
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju has flagged the archetypal affirmative speechmaking connected CryptoQuant’s Bull/Bear Market Cycle Indicator since aboriginal October.
“The Bitcoin carnivore rhythm is over,” helium wrote.
The indicator measures onchain profitability metrics successful examination to a 365 time moving average, including the marketplace worth to realized worth (MVRV) ratio, nett unrealized profit/loss (NUPL) and the spent output nett ratio (SOPR). Values supra zero for the Bull/Bear indicator constituent to bullish phases successful the BTC terms rhythm arsenic profitability improves.
Current rhythm lows came connected Feb. 5 as BTC/USD fell to $60,000, with a speechmaking of -1.244 corresponding to “extreme bear” conditions. As of Aug. 26, the astir caller day for which afloat information is available, Bull/Bear displayed a affirmative speechmaking of 0.042, placing it successful its “bull” bracket.
FUD of the Week
77% of Americans spot crypto successful status plans arsenic risky: Survey
More than three-quarters of Americans presumption cryptocurrency successful workplace status plans arsenic risky, arsenic concerns implicit status information equine crossed the United States, according to a caller survey from The National Institute connected Retirement Security.
The survey found that 77% of Americans see crypto successful workplace status plans risky, including 46% who presumption it arsenic precise risky, portion 53% reason employers offering crypto arsenic an concern option.
The survey was conducted by Greenwald Research betwixt Oct. 24 and Nov. 14, 2025, and included 1,203 Americans aged 25 and older, with results weighted by age, sex and income.
Americans presumption of crypto successful status plans. Source: National Institute of Retirement Security
Real Trump Coins denies launching GOLD token, blames ‘bad actors’
Real Trump Coins has denied launching, promoting oregon authorizing the Trump Digital GOLD token that concisely appeared crossed its online beingness earlier collapsing, blaming the promotion connected “third-party atrocious actors.”
The denial came aft the Real Trump Coins X relationship promoted the Solana-based token connected Saturday and directed users to RealTrumpCoins.com, wherever GOLD was besides advertised. The X posts were aboriginal deleted, portion the relationship present links to a abstracted domain, TrumpCoins.com.
“Trump Coins has not authorized and volition not launch, promote, oregon authorize immoderate integer token,” Real Trump Coins said in an X station connected Saturday, adding that it was moving with authorities to analyse the matter.
Polygon discloses information flaws fixed successful caller hard forks
Polygon has disclosed respective antecedently backstage information vulnerabilities that could person disrupted its proof-of-stake network, aft deploying fixes done 2 caller hard forks.
The vulnerabilities affected Polygon’s Bor and Heimdall clients and included denial-of-service risks, validator assets exhaustion and flaws affecting checkpoint and milestone processing, according to a Thursday disclosure from Polygon Labs’ Validators Support Team.
Polygon said the flaws were fixed done the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, which were deployed privately and tested earlier being activated connected mainnet and publically disclosed.
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