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Trezor just unveiled Safe 7 and set a Nov. 23, 2025 ship date with the company is marketing the device as “quantum-ready.”However, the label refers to the wallet’s ability to verify future firmware and device attestation using post-quantum cryptography once those paths are available, not to on-chain protections for Bitcoin or Ethereum today.According to Trezor’s own explainer on quantum readiness, post-quantum upgrades for public networks do not exist yet, so Safe 7’s design goal is to accept, verify, and run those updates when they arrive, and to prove device authenticity across that transition.The move extends the device chain of trust,…

Recent threats against the rights of bitcoiners to transact in the manner they deem fit led to the creation of Save Our Wallets. Done in collaboration with the Bitcoin Policy Institute, CoinCenter, the Bitcoin Design Foundation, and many regional Bitcoin hubs around the United States, the organization recently launched the “Satoshi Needs You!” campaign. Satoshi needs all of you to rally together to ensure that the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) provisions are included in the coming version of the CLARITY Act, to ensure that self-custodial software tools in the Bitcoin ecosystem remain a protected thing, unencumbered by financial regulations…

The San Francisco-based fintech team joins Aave Labs as the company looks to simplify stablecoin savings and improve the user experience.Aave Labs, the team behind the Aave lending protocol, has acquired Stable Finance, a San Francisco-based fintech startup, according to an Oct. 23 press release.The deal brings Stable Finance founder Mario Baxter Cabrera into Aave Labs as Director of Product, along with the company’s full engineering team. Aave currently has more than $38 billion in total value locked (TVL), making it the largest DeFi protocol, per DeFiLlama.The acquisition highlights Aave Labs’ shift beyond core protocol work toward making decentralized finance…

US President Donald Trump is planning to nominate Michael Selig as the next chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), after pulling back the nomination of Brian Quintenz.Bloomberg reported the news on Friday, citing an unnamed Trump administration official. No official announcement has been made at the time of this writing. Selig currently serves as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force chief counsel and senior adviser to SEC Chair Paul Atkins. He has been characterized as “pro-crypto” by some analysts and influencers in the crypto community, who celebrated the potential nomination.Michael Selig. Source: PLIThe CFTC nomination race…

James Ding Oct 25, 2025 17:00 MATIC price prediction shows potential 25-40% upside to $0.50-$0.58 range if key $0.43 resistance breaks, despite current bearish momentum signals. Polygon’s MATIC token sits at a critical juncture as technical indicators paint a mixed picture for the popular Layer-2 scaling solution. With the current price hovering around $0.38, our comprehensive MATIC price prediction analysis reveals both significant upside potential and notable downside risks in the coming weeks. MATIC Price Prediction Summary • MATIC short-term target (1 week): $0.43 (+13.2%) – Testing key resistance • Polygon medium-term forecast…

October is historically one of Bitcoin’s (BTC) best-performing months, but this year, BNB (BNB) is stealing the show.“Uptober” — coined to describe Bitcoin’s typically bullish Octobers — began on a high note this year, when the US government shutdown had just begun. Now, as Washington’s funding deadlock stretches past three weeks, that optimism has faded amid trade tensions and the aftermath of a historic liquidation event.Meanwhile, BNB, the native token of Binance’s BNB Chain, has set new all-time highs twice this month. The network is experiencing a surge in memecoin trading and is competing directly with Hyperliquid in the decentralized…

New multilateral report details how Pyongyang’s hackers launder billions in stolen crypto.Proceeds used to fund nuclear and other programmes.North Korean crypto operations are entering a new phase.Pyongyang’s state-backed hackers are scaling up their use of cryptocurrency to bypass United Nations sanctions, funnelling stolen funds through brokers and shell companies across Russia, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.That’s according to a new report published on October 22 by South Korea, Japan, the US, and the EU, which reveals how North Korean cyber teams are refining their digital playbook, conducting multimillion-dollar heists and laundering the proceeds via a sophisticated network of crypto intermediaries.The new…

In brief Blockchain.com received its MiCA license in Malta, joining firms including Gate and Gemini.
 EU regulators have warned Malta over inconsistent supervision under the new crypto regime.
 The move comes as the island nation tightens restrictions on new crypto mining and licensing practices. Blockchain.com has secured a MiCA license in Malta, the latest in a wave of crypto firms seeking access to the EU market through the island, including Kraken, Gate, and Gemini.A spokesperson for Blockchain.com told Decrypt that Malta offered “the right combination of regulatory transparency, institutional expertise, and strategic access to the European Economic Area”.“It will serve…

Even as Washington remains hobbled by a partial government shutdown, momentum for U.S. crypto market structure legislation is quietly reaching new heights. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the industry is “90%” of the way there, describing unprecedented bipartisan cooperation among senators working to finalize the long-awaited regulatory framework for digital assets. Armstrong, who spent this week meeting with both Senate Democrats and Republicans, said the last few sticking points of the CLARITY Act — including rules for decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoin rewards — are close to being resolved.  “Both sides are working hard to figure out the final 10%,…

After two years of waiting for an “altcoin season” that never came, retail crypto traders have missed out on roughly $800 billion in potential gains by betting against Bitcoin’s dominance.A new report from 10x Research shows that altcoins have lagged Bitcoin by that amount this cycle, marking one of the largest relative underperformances since 2017.The data highlights a profound shift in market structure, which is now increasingly defined by institutional flows, Bitcoin ETFs, and risk aversion rather than the speculative rotation patterns that fueled prior bull runs.Retail waits for a ‘ghost season’Traditionally, an altcoin season describes a period when smaller…