Google researchers warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and other digital assets with fewer resources than previously thought, adding ...

A prospective homeowner will be able to secure ‌a loan against the bitcoin or USDC in their Coinbase account to cover the down payment, the companies said on Thursday. The loan will be separate from ...

The operators of Wall Street’s oldest exchanges are racing to wire crypto infrastructure into the traditional financial system, betting that the two markets are headed toward a round-the-clock ...

Regulators just published a new classification scheme for how they will approach cryptocurrencies. Most of the leading coins will be classified as digital commodities. Under the new regulations, coins ...

The takeaway: A concept that once sounded like science fiction is now being recognized as essential to the survival of the digital world. This week, the Association for Computing Machinery awarded the ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as ...

Somewhere in the world right now, a cybercriminal is trying to steal your organization's encrypted data. They can't read it yet, but the technology needed to do so is rapidly approaching. When ready, ...

Crypto just took a big step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system. Kraken’s banking unit has won access to the Federal Reserve’s core payment systems, making it the first ...

Crypto prices may be approaching a turning point after months of losses as several recent developments could mark the start of a new bull phase. In a note on Wednesday, Clear Street analyst Owen Lau ...

Crypto wallets help keep your private keys for accessing crypto holdings safe, but the level of security differs. Custodial wallets, where a third-party manages your private keys, are very common and ...

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...