Cryptocurrencies

The Irish government has classified crypto assets among sectors with "very significant" risks of money laundering and terrorism financing. The authorities also pointed to the threats of sanctions evasion, tax control problems and the use of crypto assets to bribe officials. By the second half of 2027, Ireland intends

Starting October 1, 2026, new rules take effect in the digital financial assets (DFA) market. Issuers will be required to provide investors with an expanded set of data on the terms of issuance. The main goal of the changes is to give market participants the tools for an objective assessment of the reliability of

In France, police detained four men suspected of a series of attacks and kidnappings aimed at extorting cryptocurrencies. On the night of June 13–14, attackers carried out three attacks at once in the vicinity of the city of Marseille. One of them targeted the parents of a person whom the attackers believed had made a

The Ethereum ecosystem could face a "slowly building funding crisis" over the next three to nine months. This was stated by former Ethereum Foundation (EF) employee Trent Van Epps. Van Epps worked at EF from May 2021 to April 2026. Over five years he coordinated core protocol development, funding through Protocol

On June 17, one of the sixteen U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, and quantum-computer developer Quantinuum published a peer-reviewed paper on the 98-qubit Helios quantum computer. The system's average single-qubit and two-qubit operation fidelity was 99.9975% and 99.921%.