💸 Coinbase launches a mortgage product where BTC or USDC can be used as collateral for a down payment on a home.

The user gets a separate loan against their crypto, without selling it or incurring taxes, while the mortgage itself is processed via the standard Fannie Mae scheme.

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☠️ Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs warned about a new wave of cryptocurrency fraud: attackers offer fake P2P deals in messengers — they impersonate intermediaries or exchange support, fake SMS from the bank and use multiple accounts to create the appearance of an honest deal.

As a result, the victim sends money or cryptocurrency, but receives nothing. Such schemes particularly often operate through "customer support" in private messages and fake chats of well-known exchanges.

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💰 Morgan Stanley by the end of 2026 will launch "dark pools" to support tokenized stocks — this will allow institutional investors to trade tokenized securities anonymously.

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🪙 57% of the total locked value (TVL) in DeFi accounts for Ethereum.

Meanwhile, developers proposed creating an "Economic Zone" to unite fragmented L2 Ethereum networks.

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💼 BlackRock is looking for a Managing Director of Digital Assets in New York — the employee will be responsible for strategy in the areas of cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenization, as well as for interaction with clients and partners.

Salary will be $270 000 – $350 000 plus bonuses.

Any takers? 🚬

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💸 Coinbase released a creative advertisement where makeup transforms people into low-quality characters in the style of old GTA games.

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🪙 Elon Musk again suddenly started hyping Bitcoin.

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🔍 Google Quantum AI stated that cracking the widely used ECC-256 could require significantly fewer resources than previously thought — less than 500 000 qubits and only a few minutes.

The company urges the industry to urgently switch to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

ECC-256 is a type of elliptic curve cryptography with a 256-bit key. Simply put, it is one of the most popular ways to protect data and crypto wallets — it provides a high level of security with a relatively small key size.

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🪙 Proposal BIP-360 for Bitcoin introduces a new transaction type P2MR (Pay-to-Merkle-Root), which reduces the risk of hacking by eliminating the automatic disclosure of the public key — one of the main vulnerabilities in the era of quantum computing.

The solution does not make the network fully quantum-resistant, but closes the most realistic attack scenarios, while maintaining compatibility with the current architecture.

However, implementation will require wallet updates and gradual user migration, and old addresses will remain vulnerable.

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