Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round

Quantum computing's rapid advancements pose an urgent threat to the security of digital assets and financial systems. The post Alex Pruden: Quantum computing threatens elliptic curve cryptography, urgent need for postmodern cryptography, and the Bitcoin community’s philosophical divide | Empire appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Quantum Computing Threat ‘Mostly a Coordination Issue’ for Bitcoin: Fireblocks CEO appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov argued that migrating to post-quantum signature schemes is “mostly a coordination issue” for Bitcoin, rather than a technical challenge. Shaulov flagged North Korean hacking attacks as a roadblock to institutional adoption of crypto. Crypto privacy is “the most important and unresolved issue” for Fortune 500 companies seeking to adopt crypto, he said. The threat posed by quantum computing to the cryptographic signature schemes employed by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is “not actually a threat as people make it out to be,” according to Michael Shaulov, CEO of crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks. Speaking at the Financial Times Digital Asset Summit, Shaulov argued that “the entire internet industry needs to basically leapfrog and start using post-quantum encryption,” adding that, “generally speaking, we have t

Michael Shaulov argued that changing to a post-quantum cryptographic signature scheme is “not a technical challenge” for Bitcoin.

Every single second, two pieces of child sexual abuse material are shared online. Now, an international group that fights to address the causes and effects of sexual violence against children and adolescents is singling out France for particular criticism. The NGO Cameleon says that France, and the rest of Europe as well, is becoming a haven for online child sexual abuse content.

Rigetti's revenue growth signals a maturing quantum computing market, potentially impacting tech investments and prompting crypto security innovations. The post Rigetti Computing posts Q1 revenue of $4.4M, nearly triples year over year appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Lemonade, created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with a variety of runtimes and back-end engines. It supports AMD GPUs, Ryzen NPUs, Vulkan, and CPU execution (although not for all tasks), along with the llamacpp, whispercpp, sd-cpp, kokoro, ryzenai-llm and flm back ends. In addition to providing its own set of APIs, Lemonade interoperates with a broad set of industry standards including OpenAI, Ollama, Anthropic, and llama.cpp. Both GGUF and ONNX models are supported. The biggest omission is NVIDIA-specific GPU support. Only Vulkan (generic GPU) and AMD (ROCm) GPUs are supported. So, if you plan on using StableDiffusion models with NVIDIA hardware, you may want to look elsewhere for now. (StableDiffusi

Investors hunt for winners in market that for years has lagged behind Wall Street’s rally

The post Exodus Shifts from Wallet to Full Crypto Payments Company After Selling $87M in Bitcoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. TLDR: Exodus launched Exodus Pay, a platform letting users spend crypto directly from wallets across the U.S. and Europe. The firm acquired Monavate and Baanx to build out its full-stack crypto payments infrastructure in Q1 2026. Exodus cut Bitcoin holdings from 1,704 BTC to 628 BTC, using proceeds to become fully debt-free this quarter. XO Cash, Exodus’s new dollar-backed stablecoin, is positioned as the first stablecoin designed for AI agents. Exodus (EXOD), the publicly traded Bitcoin wallet firm, is broadening its scope beyond wallets into a full crypto payments company. The firm announced this shift alongside its Q1 earnings report, backed by two strategic acquisitions and a new stablecoin launch. Its balance sheet also changed sharply, with Bitcoin holdings cut significantly to fund debt repayment and acquisition costs. Shares closed Tuesday at $6.