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New Hampshire's Business Finance Authority plans to issue the first rated bitcoin-backed bond, receiving a Ba2 rating from Moody’s. The bonds, collateralized by bitcoin, signal a new integration of crypto in public finance, despite inherent risks of volatility and limited recourse to state funds.

PlaysOut partners with Magne.AI to enhance secure mobile Web3 gaming, combining on-device AI with blockchain technology. This collaboration aims to revolutionize user experiences through improved security, in-game rewards, and mobile-first solutions.

In brief California orders stronger safeguards for AI companies seeking state contracts. The move comes as the Trump administration pushes national AI standards. State officials will develop procurement rules addressing issues including bias, misuse, and civil rights risks. The

Bitcoin’s first-quarter slump capped an unusual run: nearly six months of underperformance against U.S. equities, a stretch that has no precedent. “That’s never happened,” said Mark Connors, founder of Risk Dimensions, pointing to data showing bitcoin lagging stocks consistently since early

In brief Mercado Libre killed Mercado Coin after a failed four-year experiment. The company's stablecoin is replacing the Mercado Coin loyalty token. Nubank’s Nucoin collapse shows industry-wide failure of reward tokens. Latin America's e-commerce giant quietly killed its ERC-20 loyalty

WisdomTree believes that pending U.S. crypto legislation, like the Clarity Act, won't hinder its innovation in digital assets. The company has a history of early involvement in crypto and aims to enhance regulated investment products on blockchain, focusing on tokenized assets.

FinChain, a blockchain financial infrastructure that specializes in the tokenization of RWAs, decentralized identity, and digital finance, today announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network designed to connect smart contracts with multiple blockchains,

In brief Tether’s USAT stablecoin has launched on the Celo blockchain, its first expansion beyond Ethereum. Google Cloud provides infrastructure support for the stablecoin's distribution system. A privacy-preserving faucet allows verified users to access USAT tokens through

A whitepaper published yesterday by Google Quantum AI shows that a fast-clock quantum computer (with similar architecture to their existing Willow chip) could derive a private key from an exposed public key in approximately nine minutes. Bitcoin settles a block every 10 minutes. That is, on

In brief Anthropic accidentally exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code via a source map leak. DMCA takedowns failed as mirrors and clean-room rewrites spread instantly. Decentralized repos made the leak effectively permanent and uncontrollable. Anthropic didn't mean to open-source Claude C