Rodney Burton, known as Bitcoin Rodney, pleaded guilty in the HyperFund case. He agreed with the charge of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. According to the U.S. prosecution, Burton promoted HyperFund from June 2020 to January 2022. Under the agreement, he received at least $7.85 million from the activity of the unlicensed…

The Chinese superconducting computer Origin Wukong has integrated a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) architecture. The system has already performed more than 1 million computing tasks in protected mode, Global Times reports. The 72-qubit computer uses the built-in Origin Rock software module. The solution protects data transmission from attacks using both classical and…

Ki Young Ju, head of the analytics platform CryptoQuant, has stated that the era of altcoins is not over, but projects without fundamental value are doomed to disappear. He singled out three categories of tokens that, in his view, have a chance at long-term success. As Ki Young Ju put it, the crypto market is entering a stage of natural selection — about 99%…

The Baymak District Court of Bashkortostan has handed down a verdict against two local residents. They were found guilty of attempting to sell drugs as an organized group and of laundering criminal proceeds. A special financial scheme was used in the case. The couriers’ illicit revenue came in as cryptocurrency and was then laundered through conversion into rubles. The case vividly illustrates…

CME Group plans to file a lawsuit against the CFTC over the approval of perpetual futures, its CEO Terrence Duffy said in an interview with CNBC. According to him, such contracts fall under the definition of swaps and should be regulated accordingly. A bit of context: at the end of May 2026 CFTC chairman Michael Selig stated that the regulator "opened…