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However, as the Middle East conflict escalated, prices slumped below $73,000<\/a>. Beyond political and macro pressures, CryptoQuant flagged technicals: spot trading volumes fell to 2023 lows<\/a> and a market-wide demand shortfall<\/a> emerged.<\/p>\n Bitcoin fell about 3.7% for the week, settling around ~$73,500.<\/p>\n Most major altcoins showed similar moves. Against that backdrop, BNB and HYPE kept rising \u2014 up 9.7% and 8.6%, respectively. The Hyperliquid<\/a> token climbed to ninth by market value, displacing Dogecoin.<\/p>\n Spot bitcoin ETF<\/a>s continued to record outflows, which accelerated \u2014 $1.42 billion versus $1.26 billion the previous period.<\/p>\n Ethereum funds added to the negative trend, losing $241.4 million versus $216 million a week earlier.<\/p>\n The crypto fear and greed index<\/a> even rose to 28 from 25, exiting the zone signaling extreme investor fear.<\/p>\n Total market capitalization slipped to $2.57 trillion. Bitcoin\u2019s dominance was little changed at 59.3%, while Ethereum\u2019s share stayed below 10%.<\/p>\n Facet co-founder Tom Lehman proposed<\/a> including EIP-8182 in the upcoming Ethereum upgrade dubbed Hegota<\/a>. The initiative would add a protected pool at the base layer for private transfers of ether and ERC-20<\/a> tokens.<\/p>\n The system is planned as a contract with no admin keys or pause function. It would use Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs<\/a> to validate transactions.<\/p>\n Lehman explained that current mixing services underperform due to fragmentation. New pools struggle to attract users without an installed base, and without liquidity they can\u2019t deliver adequate anonymity. EIP-8182 would create a single environment for all wallets and apps. Users could send hidden transfers to regular addresses or ENS<\/a> domains without creating special accounts.<\/p>\n Analysts at Fidelity Digital Assets reviewed the first half of 2026 and identified<\/a> six structural trends shaping the industry. They argue the period is marked by a \u201ctechnical retooling\u201d of the ecosystem rather than a simple price rally.<\/p>\n Among the main trends, Fidelity highlighted:<\/p>\n As a fifth point, Fidelity cited bearish forces early in the year: bitcoin dropped 13% amid high inflation and forced liquidations. Despite this, institutions continue building capital, and regulatory clarity is laying the groundwork for recovery.<\/p>\n The final trend involves stronger gold positioning and a gradual move away from dollar infrastructure.<\/p>\n Anthropic published<\/a> the first report on Project Glasswing \u2014 a vulnerability-hunting program using the Claude Mythos model.<\/p>\n Over a month, about 50 partners uncovered more than 10,000 high and critical security issues. The bottleneck, the company said, was not discovery speed but validation and releasing patches.<\/p>\n The AI scanned over 1,000 open-source projects and found 23,019 vulnerabilities of all severities. Of these, 6,202 were initially classified as \u201chigh\u201d or \u201ccritical.\u201d On additional review, 90.6% of findings were confirmed, including 62.4% requiring urgent fixes.<\/p>\n Also on ForkLog:<\/strong><\/p>\n Artificial intelligence accelerates<\/a> quantum-computing development and shortens the window in which modern cryptography may lose its strength.<\/p>\n Project Eleven head Alex Pruden said machine learning is already used to optimize error correction \u2014 one of the key barriers to building quantum computers. AI is used not only for defense but also to find weaknesses in cryptography and software.<\/p>\n NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin noted that AI has been accelerating scientific research for several years. He allowed that the next generation of quantum systems could be created with its help.<\/p>\n He also pointed to a \u201ccollect now, decrypt later\u201d scenario: encrypted traffic can be intercepted today for future decryption.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Quantus experts believe<\/a> the crypto industry is not ready to move to post-quantum cryptography.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wallets, exchanges, custodians, validators, bridges and governance<\/a> systems are potentially at risk, they said in the study The State of Quantum: What Crypto Can\u2019t Afford to Ignore.<\/p>\n In the company\u2019s view, crypto faces tighter constraints than conventional IT. In centralized services, cryptography can be updated via patches. In blockchains, user-controlled funds, distributed governance and public keys can remain on the network for years.<\/p>\n We explain<\/a> why bitcoin behaved unexpectedly during the Strait of Hormuz crisis and held up despite market expectations.<\/p>\n We revisited<\/a> Mike Leigh\u2019s \u201cNaked\u201d (1993) as a cypherpunk film that didn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-03fb82696d0448df-5842265085787455.webp\")
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Developers propose adding private transactions to Ethereum<\/h2>\n
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Fidelity outlines 2026 crypto-market trends<\/h2>\n
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10,000 critical flaws: Anthropic reports first Project Glasswing results<\/h2>\n
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Experts warn AI is accelerating the quantum threat<\/h2>\n
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