Privacy
Why Strategy sold Bitcoin, VanEck’s BNB bet and a $1.7B ETF exodus
On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Research Analyst James Seyffart to break down the SpaceX IPO's pull on crypto capital, four consecutive weeks of Bitcoin ETF outflows topping $1.7 billion, and the Zcash counterfeiting bug. VanEck Director of Digital Assets Product Kyle DaCruz unpacks VBNB, the first US spot BNB ETF, the rise of "revenue chains," and what staking rewards will mean for the product. 100X Capital CIO Joy Pathak — also known as the Wizard of SoHo — shares his top conviction trade in the 10X segment. Plus, Benchmark-StoneX Managing Director Mark Palmer breaks down why the market overreacted to Strategy's first publicized Bitcoin sale, his $570 price target on the company, and his Buy rating with a $32 target on Strive.
Bearish zcash bets hit record high as privacy token's price crashes
Liquidations were small relative to the size of the decline, pointing to spot selling rather than a leverage cascade, while open interest in ZEC futures climbed to a record high in token terms as traders crowded into the slide from the short side.
Arthur Hayes dumps zcash holdings after Orchard Pool vulnerability revealed
Hayes said he would reconsider his stance if his assumptions that an exploit is still possible prove to be incorrect.
Zcash plummets 38% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that went undetected for four years
Shielded Labs revealed that the bug could have helped an attacker print unlimited counterfeit tokens. That could have damaged trust in the token's supply and its value.
Apparent Zcash outage was a block explorer problem, infrastructure provider says
One expert said the issue was mainly with block explorers tracking the onchain activity.
DeFi's new front: VerifiedX bets bitcoin's next chapter is programmable, private
VerifiedX says its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting growing institutional demand for native DeFi on the original blockchain system.
Privacy emerges as crypto’s next 'killer app,' with Arc, Canton and Tempo topping $1 billion in funding
New fundraising rounds for three institution-focused blockchains show how regulation, privacy and corporate competition are reshaping crypto infrastructure, according to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan.
Multicoin goes big on zcash as privacy trade returns
The purchase marks a shift from Multicoin’s 2019 view, as ZEC has surged over 1,500% in the last year.
The question isn't whether privacy. It's what sort of privacy
Blockchains are going private. The only question left is what kind of privacy the industry will build, argues Schiller.
Google warns quantum could crack bitcoin faster than thought
Google’s Quantum AI team released a new whitepaper revealing that Bitcoin’s security could be compromised with significantly less computing power than previously assumed. The report suggests that it might only take 500,000 to crack the network and Bitcoin’s own Taproot upgrade might have made it easier to target transactions in real time. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
