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South Korea’s internet-only lender K bank has signed a strategic partnership with Ripple to test blockchain-based overseas remittances, marking another bank-facing expansion for Ripple’s payments infrastructure in Asia. The agreement, announced Monday by K bank and first reported by The Korea Herald, was signed at the lender’s headquarters in Seoul. K bank CEO Choi Woo-hyung and Ripple Asia-Pacific Managing Director Fiona Murray attended the ceremony alongside officials from both companies. K Bank Taps Ripple For Blockchain Remittance Tests The partnership centers on whether Ripple’s global network and blockchain infrastructure can improve the speed, cost efficiency and transparency of K bank’s overseas remittance system. For Ripple, the deal extends its long-running institutional payments strategy into South Korea’s digital banking market. For K bank, it gives the lender a live testing track for blockchain-based cross-border settlement at a time when stablecoins and tokenized paym...

The latest threat to Bitcoin’s cryptography is quantum computing. A researcher called Giancarlo Lelli has now won a one Bitcoin prize for using quantum hardware to crack a small cryptographic key linked to the same family of mathematics that protects Bitcoin.  This sounds terrifying at first glance, as it threatens the future of billions worth of Bitcoin. However, it also needs careful handling, because the truth is more complicated than breaking Bitcoin’s encryption. Researcher Makes Successful Attack On Elliptic Curve Cryptography The event came from Project Eleven’s Q-Day Prize, which was awarded to independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli. Lelli used publicly available quantum hardware to break a 15-bit elliptic curve cryptography key, using a variant of Shor’s algorithm to derive a private key from a public one.  The previous public quantum attack record was a 6-bit cryptographic key in September 2025, which means Lelli’s 15-bit result extends the record by a factor ...

Ethereum has clawed back above $2,300, with bulls now setting their sights on the $2,400 level that has capped the recovery throughout the consolidation phase. The price action is improving — but a CryptoQuant analysis has identified a development in the network data that suggests the current price level may be telling an incomplete story about where Ethereum actually stands. The analysis examines Ethereum’s active addresses — the number of unique wallets engaging with the network on a daily basis. The 100-day moving average of that metric has just reached an all-time high of approximately 587,000 active addresses. Not a multi-year high. Not a cycle high. An all-time high — a level of sustained daily network engagement that Ethereum has never seen before in its history. The timing creates a divergence that the data describes as unprecedented. Ethereum’s price is sitting more than 50% below the peak it reached in October. Its network usage, measured by the most sustained and smoothed ...

After a bullish weekend, Bitcoin appears to be gaining more upside momentum with its price back above the $77,000 level as buying pressure increases across the market . Meanwhile, underneath the price performance, a critical junction may be forming for the flagship cryptocurrency asset, which could determine the next potential price direction. How The Bitcoin Price Dynamics Are Playing Out While Bitcoin’s price is displaying renewed upward strength, a key on-chain metric is hinting at the asset nearing an important confluence zone. This region, where several indicators and technical levels coincide, frequently serves as a pivotal battlefield for buyers and sellers. These zones have historically seen significant price movements as market factors come together and volatility starts to increase. According to Darkfost, a verified author at the CryptoQuant platform, this trend can be observed through the Bitcoin Supply Distribution Heatmap.  The metric combines three interesting e...

XRP has entered the final stretch of April with one of its strongest on-chain accumulation signals of the year . Data from Santiment shows that 34.94 million XRP left exchanges in a single 24-hour period on April 24, making it the sixth-largest exchange outflow day recorded so far in 2026. The move comes as XRP is trading around $1.43, having clawed back from the $1.30 levels that defined much of early April.  Millions Of XRP Leave Exchanges In Major On-Chain Signal Exchange outflows measure the volume of tokens being withdrawn from trading platforms into private wallets, and this is a bullish move that shows holder intent to accumulate their tokens. According to data from on-chain analytics platform Santiment, XRP investors recently went through one of their highest 24-hour accumulations from crypto exchanges so far this year. Notably, Santiment’s data shows that XRP’s latest outflow spike reached 34.94 million tokens in one day. These 34.94 million XRP tokens that flowed o...

According to the latest report, major Litecoin mining pools were hit by a Denial-of-Service (DOS) attack this weekend due to a zero-day vulnerability in the network. The Litecoin Foundation confirmed that the bug has been patched and the network is fully operational. Litecoin Attacker Attempts Double-Spend Exploits On Cross-Chain Protocols On Saturday, April 25, the Litecoin Foundation reported in a post on the X platform that a Denial-of-Service attack occurred on its network. According to the foundation, this exploit, enabled by a zero-day bug in the network’s MimbleWimble Extension Block (MWEB) privacy layer, allowed the bad actor to attempt double-spends against cross-chain swap protocols. The foundation explained that the vulnerability allowed non-updated mining nodes to facilitate an invalid MWEB transaction, which enabled individuals to peg out coins to third-party decentralized exchanges. This DOS attack caused a disruption to the normal operations of major mining pools, th...

Iran’s decision to accept Bitcoin as payment for oil shipping tolls through the Strait of Hormuz gave fresh weight to a question already circulating in Washington: does the US military actually understand crypto well enough to use it as a tool of national power? A Waterway And A Currency About 20% of the world’s oil supply moves through the Strait of Hormuz . Iran announced it would accept Chinese yuan, dollar-pegged stablecoins, and Bitcoin for tolls on ships passing through. Officials at the Bitcoin Policy Institute told reporters that Iran leans toward stablecoins — but Bitcoin has a quality stablecoins don’t. Stablecoins can be frozen by their issuers at the contract level. Bitcoin cannot. No single entity controls the network, which means no one can shut it down or block a transaction. US Admiral Calls Bitcoin Key to Cybersecurity and Power Projection Admiral Samuel Paparo sees Bitcoin as a strategic tool for U.S. cybersecurity and national power, emphasizing its proof-of-w...