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By Thursday the cryptocurrency had lost all positive momentum and resumed falling. In a matter of hours, bitcoin plunged<\/a> from $69,000 to $66,000. The same day the asset briefly tested a local low near $65,000.<\/p>\n From Friday the coin stabilised around $67,000 and showed no sharp swings.<\/p>\n The rest of the market followed the flagship with small divergences. Ethereum added 1.5%, while BNB and SOL slipped 4% apiece.<\/p>\n Digital assets, like other markets, remain acutely sensitive to the conflict in the Middle East. Investors also face extra stress from US President Donald Trump\u2019s equivocal comments on when the war with Iran might end.<\/p>\n Inflows into bitcoin ETFs<\/a> were almost neutral. Spot funds took in<\/a> $22m net, while ethereum funds saw outflows<\/a> of $42m.<\/p>\n Total crypto market capitalisation stands at $2.37trn. BTC dominance is 56.3%, ETH 10.3%.<\/p>\n The Crypto Fear and Greed Index<\/a> remains in extreme fear at 12.<\/p>\n On April 1 the Solana-based DeFi platform Drift Protocol was hit by<\/a> a hack. Attackers siphoned about $280m by compromising a multisig<\/a>.<\/p>\n The attack affected all deposit types\u2014lending, trading and vaults. Untouched were DSOL tokens outside the Drift ecosystem and the Insurance Fund. As a safety measure the protocol froze operations.<\/p>\n In time, cybersecurity analysts concluded<\/a> that North Korean hackers were behind the breach. The attackers not only compromised the multisig once; they re-breached it after system changes and exploited a delayed-signature mechanism.<\/p>\n Over the weekend the Drift team published<\/a> details of its own investigation, which also points to the DPRK. The company says the culprits prepared the attack for half a year.<\/p>\n According to the protocol\u2019s representatives, in the autumn of 2025 at one of the industry conferences they were approached by people acting on behalf of an unnamed trading firm who expressed a desire to collaborate.<\/p>\n \u201cThey had technical skills, a proven professional background and were familiar with how Drift works. After the first meeting we created a group in Telegram, followed by months of substantive discussions of trading strategies and potential vault integration,\u201d the company noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Close communication between developers and the attackers continued roughly until late March. After the hack, all shared chats and contacts were deleted.<\/p>\n Data obtained during the probe linked the attack to UNC4736, a North Korean state-backed outfit also known as AppleJeus or Citrine Sleet. The same criminals are believed to have been behind the Radiant Capital hack<\/a> worth more than $50m in October 2024.<\/p>\n The Drift incident could enter the ranks of the largest<\/a> crypto hacks by losses.<\/p>\n Anthropic suffered a leak<\/a> of part of the source code of its programming tool, Claude Code.<\/p>\n The published data fully revealed the solution\u2019s architecture. In particular, how the service:<\/p>\n In addition, 44 functions not yet announced were found in the code. Among them are an always-on background system, Kairos, and an AI pet, Buddy.<\/p>\n Enthusiasts have already launched the open project OpenClaude, based on Anthropic\u2019s code. The fork added support for the Anthropic API<\/span> and models compatible with OpenAI\u2019s interface.<\/p>\n The company said the leak did not expose customers\u2019 confidential data. The error occurred during release packaging. During the \u201ccleanup\u201d of the leaked data another problem arose: the project team accidentally deleted<\/a> thousands of repositories on GitHub.<\/p>\n The incident was Anthropic\u2019s second leak in recent weeks. Earlier, a description of a forthcoming AI model and other documents appeared in the public domain.<\/p>\n At the time, company representatives said the new development is \u201ca step change\u201d in performance and \u201cthe most powerful solution to date\u201d. It is now being tested among a limited group of users.<\/p>\n The US Treasury has begun<\/a> implementing the GENIUS Act, publishing an 87-page document explaining how stablecoin regulatory regimes are determined.<\/p>\n Under the GENIUS Act, issuers of \u201cstable coins\u201d with less than $10bn outstanding may choose state-level oversight provided they meet federal standards. The rules set common criteria for assessment while leaving states latitude over licensing, supervision and enforcement.<\/p>\n The document splits requirements into two types:<\/p>\n Issuers are also obliged to publish reserve-composition reports at least monthly\u2014the same frequency as at the federal level.<\/p>\n In parallel, the Department of Labor proposed<\/a> new rules for 401(k) retirement plans, allowing the addition of alternative assets, including cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n The initiative aims to cut regulatory uncertainty by scrapping a 2022 constraint. Fiduciaries\u2019 responsibility will now depend on the quality of instrument valuation, not on eventual returns.<\/p>\n The document does not directly promote digital assets but creates a \u201csafe harbour\u201d concept for market participants. Investment funds will be able to add bitcoin, real estate and other non-standard products without fear of lawsuits.<\/p>\n Additionally, senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis unveiled the Mined in America Act. The bill would reform the US mining industry, create a strategic bitcoin reserve and localise equipment production.<\/p>\n Also on ForkLog:<\/strong><\/p>\n Google researchers concluded<\/a> that fewer than 500,000 physical qubits may suffice to break the protections of bitcoin and Ethereum\u201420 times fewer than earlier estimates.<\/p>\n The team assembled two circuits for testing on a superconducting, cryptographically relevant quantum computer. One used 1,200 logical qubits and 90m Toffoli gates<\/a>, the other about 1,450 logical qubits and 70m gates.<\/p>\n Under standard hardware assumptions the computation would take nine to 12 minutes, within bitcoin\u2019s average block time of ten minutes. That makes possible an \u201con-spend attack\u201d\u2014a hypothetical threat in which an attacker derives a private key from the public key revealed during a transaction.<\/p>\n The researchers also warned that Ethereum\u2019s account model is structurally susceptible to \u201cat-rest attacks\u201d. Unlike bitcoin, this threat does not require a timing window because public keys are permanently stored on-chain after a transaction.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a systemic, inevitable vulnerability that cannot be eliminated by user behaviour without a network-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Google estimated that the 1,000 largest vulnerable addresses (with ~20.5m ETH) could be cracked in less than nine days.<\/p>\n Co-author and Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said his confidence in the arrival of a so-called Q-Day by 2032 \u201cgrew significantly\u201d. He puts the probability at roughly 10% that by 2032 a quantum computer will be able to recover a private key from a public one.<\/p>\n ForkLog explained<\/a> the stage of the brain\u2013computer interface industry and who is really carving up the young market.<\/p>\n In a new piece we explain<\/a> why a French thinker\u2019s concept still holds today\u2014just read Donald Trump\u2019s tweets, among others.<\/p>\n![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-1ea2ba6483173ad1-1004951777542082.webp\")
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What to discuss with friends?<\/h2>\n
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Anthropic\u2019s spoiler leak<\/h2>\n
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Regulatory moves in America<\/h2>\n
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Quantum jitters<\/h2>\n
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What else to read?<\/h2>\n