"Engineering Flex": Flying Tesla Roadster Wows Wall Street, But Production Waits Until 2028

Alleged White-Hat Hackers Withdraw 4,000 Bitcoin From Blockstream's Liquid Network Federation Reserves Authored by Juan Galt via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Liquid Network said Sunday that purported white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet that backs L-BTC. Bridge nodes were disabled, and the sidechain was paused. Other issued assets, including USDT, DePix and RWAs, were unaffected, the official account said on X. The Liquid Network is a federated sidechain of Bitcoin, founded by Adam Back’s Blockstream. The Liquid chain issues a variety of assets such as LBTC, which...

"De-Risk As Fast As Possible": EU Eyes Vietnam For Critical Materials To Cut Alarming China Dependence Brussels appears increasingly aligned with the Trump administration's view that securing reliable, conflict-free supplies of critical materials is important for the incoming rearmament supercycle. Continued reliance on China exposes Western defense manufacturers to export restrictions that have already disrupted supply chains and could delay deliveries.  Reuters cites internal EU documents dated June 2026 that identified Vietnam as a potential source of critical materials outside China. "Considering Europe's need to rearm and de-risk as fast as possible, the...

Ethereum Can Quantum-Proof Accounts For Just 7 Cents, Says Foundation's Kohaku Project Lead Authored by Zoltan Verdai via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum could begin adding post-quantum protections to accounts for as little as $0.07, without waiting for a hard fork, according to the Ethereum Foundation's Kohaku project lead Nicolas Consigny. In a Saturday X post, Consigny shared a paper proposing a cheaper way for Ethereum users to protect their accounts against future quantum-computing threats. The approach adapts SPHINCS+, a post-quantum signature standard developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, to work more efficiently on...