The bitcoin mining industry is undergoing the most fundamental transformation in its history, and the clearest sign isn't the hashrate or the difficulty adjustments. It's the balance sheets.

Ripple is overhauling how it secures the XRP Ledger, and AI is at the center of the effort. Its engineering team outlined a new AI-driven security strategy for the XRP Ledger in a detailed post earlier this week, one that integrates machine learning tools across the protocol's entire development lifecycle.

The crypto industry's reaction was that a quantum computing threat was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024 . Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for signatures, both of which are theoretically vulnerable to quantum decryption, but the consensus was that the threat was decades away .

Anthropic is testing the most powerful AI model it has ever built, and the world wasn't supposed to know yet. A data leak reported by Fortune on Thursday revealed that the AI lab behind Claude has trained a new model called “Mythos,” which it internally describes as “by far the most powerful AI model we've ever developed.” The model was discovered in a draft blog post left in an unsecured, publicly searchable data cache, alongside nearly 3,000 other unpublished assets, according to cybersecurity researchers who reviewed the material.

Don't be fooled by the prolonged crypto bear market, the industry remains a sound investment and less at risk from replacement by AI than traditional software as a service (SaaS) operations, according to Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp. (KRAKU), a blank check company backed by U.S.

As quantum computing edges closer to practical reality, the crypto industry is beginning to confront a question it has long deferred: what happens if the cryptography underpinning trillions of dollars in digital assets no longer holds? Across many of the most well-known ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, responses are diverging along familiar lines: what to do on social consensus and technical iteration, and community members are split between caution and acceleration.

Bitcoin BTC $ 66,673.31 may have already priced in the effects of tighter monetary policy, leaving stocks more exposed to the latest macroeconomic shocks, according to asset manager Bitwise. The firm’s comments come as the cryptocurrency continues to correct below $70,000, down more than 23.7% year-to-date.

Canada’s federal government has moved to ban cryptocurrency donations to political campaigns, shutting down a fundraising channel that appears to have seen little to no real-world use in the country's previous elections. Bill C-25, the Strong and Free Elections Act, introduced March 26 , would prohibit political contributions made in BTC and other cryptoassets, as well as in money orders and prepaid payment products, grouping them as forms of funding that are difficult to trace.

Prediction market platform Kalshi has been cleared to offer margin trading to professional clients, a move designed to make its platform more appealing to institutional investors. The license, granted to Kalshi’s affiliate Kinetic Markets, allows it to operate as a futures commission merchant, according to a filing with the National Futures Association.