Miners signed AI leases worth more than their own market caps, then the stocks cracked. A four-question screen for sorting bankable contracts from hopeful ones.
Colton Dillon, co-founder of Postquant Labs, explains how Quip Network gets classical computers to verify quantum computers’ work and the role blockchain plays. Plus, how D-Wave’s machines already beat GPU clusters on real workloads.
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Miners signed AI leases worth more than their own market caps, then the stocks cracked. A four-question screen for sorting bankable contracts from hopeful ones.
Nine institutional Bitcoin heavyweights formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium to fund developers working on the network’s long-term security, including post-quantum cryptography.
Bitcoin retreats from $67,000 amid broader market correction.
Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play treasury bet.
Colton Dillon, co-founder of Postquant Labs, explains how Quip Network gets classical computers to verify quantum computers’ work and the role blockchain plays. Plus, how D-Wave’s machines already beat GPU clusters on real workloads.
Jesse Pollak owns the Base App’s social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain’s rise, and explains Brian Armstrong’s memecoin moment.
The company behind the swap aggregator says the app goes read-only on July 27 and shuts down for good on July 30, leaving users a narrow window to secure their funds.
An attacker drained nearly all of AFX Trade’s funds by compromising the signing keys to a bridge the Arbitrum protocol operates, in another off-chain crypto exploit.
An oracle-manipulation exploit let an attacker liquidate collateralized vaults that should have been safe, netting about $912,000 and collapsing the stablecoin’s peg.
The plan would end validator-gated listings, requiring deployers to lock about $30 million in tokens while letting them keep up to half the trading fees.
Jesse Pollak owns the Base App’s social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain’s rise, and explains Brian Armstrong’s memecoin moment.
Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS’s treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice’s VVV token.
OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.
Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.
Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.
Majority Leader John Thune says the crypto market structure bill probably won’t pass before the August recess, though he hopes to start its floor process first.
The Goldman chief endorsed the crypto market-structure bill just as a group of Senate Democrats rejected the latest draft over ethics and illicit-finance concerns.
Colton Dillon, co-founder of Postquant Labs, explains how Quip Network gets classical computers to verify quantum computers’ work and the role blockchain plays. Plus, how D-Wave’s machines already beat GPU clusters on real workloads.
Jesse Pollak owns the Base App’s social miss, unpacks Robinhood Chain’s rise, and explains Brian Armstrong’s memecoin moment.
A vulnerability in Zilliqa’s Ledger app, present since 2019, lets attackers rebuild a signer’s private key from data already public on the blockchain.
Patrick Witt, the White House’s executive director for digital assets policy, calls in mid-episode to give the Chopping Block crew a live read on the CLARITY market structure bill!
Vladimir Novakovski of Lighter joins the Chopping Block crew to untangle one of crypto’s oldest debates: what happens when tokens and equity coexist. The gang digs into the Venice/VVV controversy, breaks down Lighter’s new Perps integration with Robinhood Chain and the fragmentation questions it raises, dissects the wild BonkDAO governance exploit, and reacts to the eye-popping $2.4 billion in crypto income disclosed in Trump’s financial filings.
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Based rollups are an exciting new addition to rollup scaling solutions.
