The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will...

Kaito launched an airdrop to users of Coinbase’s Base layer 2, and crypto influencers voluntarily doxxed their wallets to participate. Source link...

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as...

Justin Sun, the Prime Minister of Liberland and a well-known crypto billionaire, says his holdings in Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) have been unfairly frozen. Observers wonder if Trump is using his crypto fortune as a new tool of...

Key Takeaways The proposal outlines that 95% of interest earned from USDH reserves will be used for buybacks of Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token. USDH will integrate with Paxos’s existing brokerage infrastructure, which already powers services for PayPal, Venmo, and MercadoLibre....

Sam Bankman-Fried says he donated more money to Republican causes than previously reported as he attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump. Source link...

The US has removed TSMC’s Nanjing waiver, requiring new export licenses. Delays may hit output as Washington tightens controls on China’s chip supply. Source link...

The ongoing economic and geopolitical tensions have fueled demand for safe-haven assets, with Bitcoin, gold, and the Swiss franc being in the driver’s seat.  While Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has pulled back recently, it remains much higher than the year-to-date low. Also,...

U.S. Bank announced today that it has officially resumed its cryptocurrency custody services for institutional investment managers, reopening a program first introduced in 2021. The service, which is being relaunched as an early access program for Global Fund Services clients,...

ZachXBT is turning off his X DMs for the next few weeks because users messaging him “lack basic financial literacy or common sense.” Source link...