Summary Former a16z crypto investor Sam Broner has co-founded The Better Money Company, raising $10M in seed funding to build a stablecoin clearinghouse. The round was led by a16z crypto with backing from BoxGroup, Sunflower Capital and angels including Circle co-founder Sean Neville and ex-Microsoft exec Charlie Songhurst.finance. Better Money plans to support GENIUS Act-compliant
Block is pushing its AI strategy further, with CEO Jack Dorsey and lead independent director Roelof Botha outlining a plan to rebuild the fintech company as a mini-AGI. In a new essay published Tuesday morning, Dorsey and Botha argue that AI should do more than improve worker productivity and instead replace traditional layers of coordination
A quantum attacker could potentially steal funds from a transaction while it is still waiting to be processed. Google’s quantum computing team has published a white paper detailing how a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could crack the private keys of Ethereum’s 1,000 wealthiest wallets in under 9 days, directly risking more than 20 million
Summary Bhutan’s government-linked wallets moved 325 BTC (about $25.19M) to a Galaxy Digital-linked address and 375 BTC (around $25.18M) to an unknown wallet. The roughly $50M in suspected sales follow a March selling spree in which Bhutan offloaded more than $84M in Bitcoin via exchanges and OTC desks. Druk Holding & Investments, Bhutan’s sovereign fund,
S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of S&P Global that tracks more than 125,000 benchmarks used across global investment markets, has joined forces with Kaiko, a digital assets data infrastructure firm, to bring the iBoxx US Treasuries Index to the Canton Network, making it the first major financial benchmark issued as a native blockchain asset.
The Ethereum Foundation just locked up another 22,517 ETH – worth approximately $46.2 million – bringing its total staking position to 24,623 ETH, or roughly $50 million, according to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence. That’s not a rounding error. It’s the Foundation’s largest single-day staking event ever. ETH is currently trading near $2,045, and this
Bitcoin is closing out Q1 2026 on a sour note. The largest crypto is trading around $66.4k after a quarter that saw shedding nearly half its value from the October 2025 peak near $125k. With macro and geopolitical uncertainty still weighing on risk assets and no major structural level reclaimed, BTC heads into Q2 without
Bitcoin price has formed support over $66,000 as investor hopes for an end to the ongoing U.S. and Iran conflict gained renewed momentum from Trump discussing a potential ceasefire, even if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Summary Bitcoin held near $66,000 as Trump’s reported push for a ceasefire in the U.S.–Iran conflict lifted sentiment
As quantum computing advances, the cost of attacking Bitcoin may drop sharply. In a new analysis, Google warns that crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum could be vulnerable to quantum attacks much earlier than previously estimated. The study shows that quantum machines running Shor’s algorithm could solve the 256-bit Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem
Here’s how many Pioneers have successfully completed second migrations. Pi Network’s Core Team, which has come under serious criticism as of late, has just updated on the number of users who have completed the second migration of their balances. As with similar posts on X before, though, the community was quick to pick up