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Quantum Blockchain Technologies PLC (AIM:QBT, FRA:BYA1) announced it has secured a US patent for its ASIC Ultra Boost technology, clearing the way for the company to pursue licensing and other commercial arrangements with Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturers.

BTCLIVE BTC price on Sep 29, 2026 at 7am EDT $84,100 or above1.61×62% $84,200 or above2.50×40%

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes cryptocurrency and blockchain technology could eventually absorb much of the artificial intelligence industry, arguing that decentralized networks can solve several challenges facing AI developers.

Add preferred source Circle, the U.S. issuer of the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC, launched the public mainnet of its proprietary Layer-1 blockchain “Arc” on September 16. The defining feature is the ability to pay network fees (gas) in USDC, eliminating the need to hold a separate token for transaction costs. Validators will be selected by Circle…

Wall Street-style financial products keep landing onSeibecause the network offers fast, low-cost settlement while staying fully compatible with theEthereumtools that institutions already trust.

Add preferred source Chainalysis reported a 420% surge in malware instructions and infrastructure data stored on public blockchains over the past year, with state-linked hackers now responsible for roughly two-thirds of such activity. The firm identified North Korean and Iranian operators as the primary actors, connecting previously unattributed transactions across Tron, Aptos, and BNB Smart…

S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the blockchain security firm known for its open-e move is designed to strengthen S&P Global’s digital asset capabilities—particularly around risk assessment and onchain technology analysis—at a time when financial institutions are increasingly looking to tokenized markets

Over the past few years, Circle has done one thing only: bring USDC to where users already are. Now it’s stepping in to build its own Layer 1, betting not on stealing liquidity from Ethereum or Solana, but on creating markets that don’t yet exist: stablecoin foreign exchange, institutional private finance, and autonomous agent economies.…

A pioneering move in corporate payouts allows shareholders of Elemental Royalty (NASDAQ:ELE) to receive their upcoming quarterly dividend in either traditional fiat currency or digital gold.

S&P Global has entered into an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin — a developer of security solutions for onchain finance. The deal is expected to expand S&P Global’s capabilities in digital asset risk assessment and help the company build new security assessment tools, benchmarks, and analytics for a financial market that is moving to blockchain infrastructure.