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IBM Joins Swift's Blockchain: 17 Banks Already Piloting It
IBM Plugged Into Swift's Banking Blockchain Here's Who's Already On It: The world's biggest bank messaging network just quietly went blockchain and IBM wants in. On September 25 - 2026, IBM connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, currently in beta. The move lets banks move tokenized deposits across Swift's network using an ISO 20022 messaging adapter meaning banks can tap blockchain rails without ripping out their existing payment systems. Swift isn't a small player here. It connects over 12,500 financial institutions across more than 200 markets, moving the equivalent of world GDP every two to three days. So when Swift adds blockchain to that stack, banks pay attention. The First Live Transaction Already Happened HSBC and Standard Chartered beat everyone to the punch, completing the first live transaction on the ledger back in August proof the system works outside the lab. Meet the 17 Founding Banks Swift's ...
Visa Is Shutting Down the Meme Coin Credit Card Loophole
Buying meme coins with a credit card came with an unexpected perk: some users could earn ordinary credit card points and cash back on their crypto purchases. Visa is now moving to close that loophole. The issue centered on how meme coin purchases were classified by payment processors . Some Crossmint-powered checkouts used merchant category code (MCC) 5815 , a category intended for digital media such as movies, music and audiobooks, rather than a crypto-specific category. That meant a meme coin purchase could look to the card network like a normal digital-media purchase. How the loophole worked Users of Robinhood Wallet and Fomo could purchase certain meme coins using credit cards through Apple Pay or Google Pay. According to The Block's testing, transactions made with Visa and Mastercard cards were classified as digital-media purchases and could earn normal card rewards, including points and cash back. The classification mattered because crypto purchases are generally t...
Crypto Funds Just Posted Their Best Week of 2026 — $3.5B in a Single Week
"Bitcoin ETFs Go 5-for-5: Crypto Funds Hit Biggest Inflow Week of the Year" Digital asset investment funds pulled in $3.5 billion last week, according to CoinShares latest Digital Asset Bi-Weekly Digest the largest single-week inflow recorded in 2026. The surge pushed total assets under management across crypto funds to $173 billion globally. Bitcoin Led the Charge US spot Bitcoin ETFs were the standout performer, hauling in $2.39 billion and staying positive on all five trading days of the week. Ethereum products weren't far behind, adding $690 million over the same stretch. Together, these flows pulled year-to-date totals back into positive territory up to $8.6 billion for 2026 so far. What Sparked the Rally? CoinShares attributes the strength to the removal of uncertainty following the Federal Reserve's recent rate decision. Once the outcome became clear, investors who had been sitting on the sidelines started deploying capital again. The US Dominated But Who Else...
Upcoming IPOs Are Back. Here’s What Investors Should Beware Of
The IPO market is getting busy again, with major private companies across AI, fintech, technology, space and consumer businesses moving closer to public markets. Names such as OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Oura and Strava have appeared in the 2026 IPO pipeline, although the status and timing of individual listings can change. Some companies have filed, while others remain confidential filers or are simply being discussed as potential candidates. That creates an opportunity for investors to gain access to companies that were previously available mainly through private markets. But an IPO can also make it easier to buy into a company before the market has fully figured out what it is worth. The IPO price is not automatically a bargain One of the biggest mistakes investors can make is assuming that getting shares at the IPO price means getting in early at a cheap valuation. The IPO price is determined through the offering process and reflects what the company and its underwriters...
Vitalik Says AI Will Make Crypto More Secure
What if the same AI that helps hackers find vulnerabilities could also make your crypto harder to steal? That is the possibility Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is pointing to. He argues that AI could make software fundamentally harder to break by making formal verification practical at a much larger scale. Formal verification uses mathematical proofs to confirm that code follows specific security rules. Instead of relying only on testing to find bugs, developers can prove that certain parts of a program behave as intended. But Buterin says there is a bigger challenge. The Hardest Part Is Defining Security According to Buterin, defining what “secure” actually means is harder than verifying the code . A security definition needs to account for more than obvious bugs. It may also need to consider compromised servers, leaked keys, network attacks, metadata and hardware vulnerabilities. If an important threat is missing from the definition, a perfect mathematical proof will no...
4,000 BTC taken. The coins still haven't moved. 🚨
Liquid Network lost roughly 95% of its Bitcoin reserve after attackers exploited a validation bug in its infrastructure. The attackers claim they’re “white hats” and say they didn't steal anyone's private keys. Instead, they exploited a flaw that allowed them to withdraw the BTC. Blockstream has since patched the affected nodes. But here's the strange part: The 4,000 BTC hasn't moved since the incident. If the attackers really are white hats, the funds could eventually be returned. If not, the Bitcoin is sitting there as one of the biggest potential crypto thefts of the year. Rescue mission or ransom? The blockchain may have the answer. 👀
Ethereum Is Preparing It's Staking System for the Quantum Era
Ethereum developers have filed a proposal that could eventually replace the network's current validator deposit contract and prepare staking for post-quantum cryptography. The reason is simple: Ethereum's existing validator system relies heavily on BLS cryptography , and quantum computers could eventually threaten it. That's not purely theoretical. Google Quantum AI researchers have identified five potential attack paths against Ethereum using quantum computing. The proposal would expand key-size limits so Ethereum can support larger, quantum-resistant cryptographic formats. But there's one particularly important mechanism: The one-way switch The proposal includes an irreversible switch that would permanently stop the deposit contract from accepting new validators using the old BLS credential format. Once activated: BLS deposits stop → newer credential formats take over. That's significant because around 42.4 million ETH , worth roughly $104 billion , ...
Your Smart TV May Know What You're Watching. Even Through HDMI
Your smart TV isn't just a screen anymore. Depending on the TV and it's settings, it can use Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to identify what's playing on the display including content coming from external devices connected through HDMI. That means your TV may be able to recognize what you're watching even when the content isn't coming from the TV's own Netflix, YouTube or other built-in apps. And that's where things get interesting. Your TV can recognize more than you think ACR works by analyzing what's displayed and creating a digital fingerprint that can be matched against known content. Research has found ACR operating across different smart-TV platforms and sources, including streaming apps, broadcasts, game consoles and HDMI-connected devices . VIZIO's current privacy documentation, for example, explicitly says its ACR technology can recognize programming, advertisements, gaming content and devices connected through HDMI when vie...
Tech It Up Today
The AI Race Is Getting More Expensive: Inside the Global Battle for Chips, Compute and Capital Artificial intelligence is no longer just a race to build the smartest model. It is becoming a race for chips, computing power, memory, data-centre capacity and capital — and the numbers involved are getting enormous. This week alone, Broadcom was reported to be negotiating more than $60 billion in debt financing for an AI chip deal, Samsung raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services by as much as 15% , and Micron announced a $10 billion investment in a new memory research laboratory. Together, the developments reveal something important about the next phase of the AI boom: the bottleneck may increasingly be infrastructure rather than ideas. AI is becoming a capital-intensive industry Building an advanced AI system requires far more than software engineers and training data. Companies need enormous quantities of advanced processors, high-bandwidth memory, networking e...
The Coldcard Exploit Shows There Is No Such Thing as a Perfect Crypto Wallet
For years, hardware wallets have been promoted as one of the safest ways to store cryptocurrency. The idea is simple: keep your private keys offline, away from hackers, and your assets remain secure. The latest exploit involving the Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard is challenging that belief. Security researchers say attackers exploited a vulnerability affecting Coldcard wallets, with blockchain analysis now estimating that roughly $70 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen from more than 1,100 wallets . The incident has become one of the biggest hardware wallet security events in recent years, raising fresh questions about how investors should think about self-custody. A Reminder That No System Is Perfect The exploit doesn't mean hardware wallets are unsafe. It does, however, show that no storage method is completely immune to risk. Hardware wallets are designed to protect users from online attacks, malware and exchange failures. But like any piece of technology, they stil...