Today Presidio Bitcoin, a Bitcoin hub located in the Bay Area in California, has launched a knowledge repository/living report on Github to track the current state of research related to Bitcoin’s quantum vulnerability.
Our Quantum Bitcoin Summit last July helped push bitcoin’s quantum discussion forward.
Today we’re publishing Bitcoin’s Quantum Readiness, a living paper on bitcoin’s exposure, mitigation menu, upgrade paths, and plausible transition scenarios. 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/XHdiSJFrlB
The report aims to be a central location where people in the ecosystem can easily keep track of and analyze the current state of research around the issue.
It currently takes a comprehensive look through the state of:
The current state of quantum computing, as well as research into different quantum computing technologies that could lead to material engineering progress towards a viable device.
The level of exposure, i.e. how many coins and how much overall value is currently vulnerable to long-range attacks by a capable quantum computer.
Post-quantum cryptographic schemes, as well as the current state of research in developing variants of such schemes more heavily optimized for Bitcoin’s unique architecture and way of functioning.
Different ways of implementing post-quantum cryptography in Bitcoin, and the trade-offs between these different paths.
Different mechanisms for safely migrating vulnerable coins to quantum-safe addresses in the event that a powerful enough quantum computer is created before users migrate to post-quantum cryptography.
An analysis of different ways that the actual migration could play out under different circumstances.
They plan to regularly update the repository/report as new research comes out, and solutions and plans are further refined and updated.
The announcement comes after growing claims that Bitcoin developers are not doing anything to acknowledge or address the issue, and aims to highlight the on-going research and development into solutions to the issue conducted by developers.
A long-term shift in wealth ownership is expected to influence financial markets, with digital assets likely to benefit from evolving investor preferences. Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl highlighted on April 14 how capital moving to younger generations could reshape allocation trends, especially as familiarity with alternative assets grows. Although gradual, this transition could meaningfully impact crypto adoption over time.
A large share of U.S. wealth is concentrated among baby boomers, individuals born between 1946 and 1964, and the Silent Generation, born roughly between 1928 and 1945. As this capital transfers, investment decisions may increasingly reflect different risk appetites and openness to innovation. Younger investors typically show greater interest in emerging asset classes, which may shift portfolio construction. Pandl stated:
“We believe that the upcoming generational wealth transfer may have structural implications for crypto. As assets change hands, portfolios could shift to incorporate a higher share of crypto assets, creating a tailwind for valuations.”
Macro Trends and Institutional Demand Support Crypto Growth
Beyond demographics, macroeconomic and regulatory developments are reinforcing crypto’s investment case. Grayscale’s 2026 Digital Asset Outlook notes rising concerns around fiat stability and public debt, driving demand for alternative stores of value like bitcoin and ethereum. Improving regulatory clarity and expanding access through exchange-traded products are also supporting institutional adoption and steady capital inflows.
Institutional participation and expanding blockchain use cases are further strengthening market structure. More consistent inflows have contributed to steadier price behavior compared to prior cycles. Areas such as decentralized finance, tokenization, and stablecoins continue to gain traction, increasing integration with traditional finance. Pandl emphasized:
“For example, based on the current $110 trillion in wealth held by baby boomers and the Silent Generation, a 2% flow into crypto allocations would imply an additional $2.2 trillion in net new demand for digital assets.”
Veteran banking and fintech executive Derek White has unveiled his latest venture, an AI agent operating system purpose-built for regulated financial institutions.
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Primitive is an end-to-end system for creating, deploying, and governing agentic execution, promising to help banks to move beyond fragmented AI pilots into governed, production-scale deployment.
The startup is the brainchild of Derek White, who was most recently CEO of SoFi-owned API and payments platform Galileo. Before that, he had stints as head of Google Cloud’s FS business and chief digital officer at US Bank.
White has secured seed funding for Primitive from Fin Capital and Pelion Venture Partners as well as entry to startup programmes including NVIDIA Inception, Microsoft for Startups, and Google for Startups.
The Primitive platform consists of the ‘Engine Room’, which connects AI agents — including third parties — directly to enterprise systems without replacing them; the ‘Assembler’, which builds from a use case to a production-ready agent in 90 days; and the ‘Control Tower’, which delivers governance through logging, tracing, and independently validating that every agent action is compliant, as well as measuring performance.
The business is launching with a set of pre-built agent templates across commercial lending, human-in-the-loop operations, risk and compliance, deep research, and regulatory oversight.
Says White: “The bank executives who have helped us shape Primitive all face a common, critical challenge: they know AI is the future, but they cannot risk the reputation or stability of their institution on unproven systems.
“The challenge isn’t access to AI — it’s integrating, governing, and proving the return on it at enterprise scale. Having lived this problem from inside some of the world’s largest financial institutions, we built Primitive to give leaders the control and clarity required to move AI from a pilot to a core business driver where agents execute and people lead.”
In conjunction with its launch, Primitive is forming a strategic partnership with MX Technologies. a data and software provider for over 1,700 financial institutions. As part of the partnership, the companies are developing an AI-native Growth Agent designed to help banks and credit unions build on the current MX offerings.
Strategy’s STRC ATM has produced $2.7+ billion in volume across just two trading sessions this week, more than all of last week combined, absorbing an estimated 29,914 BTC with every single share trading above par.
Yesterday, I wrote about how Strategy’s STRC ATM had just printed its first billion-dollar volume day. Today, it did it again, bigger.
Tuesday, April 14 closed with an estimated $1.57 billion in STRC volume, 100% of it above the $100 par threshold, implying roughly 16,762 BTC absorbed in a single session. That’s 37 times the daily mined Bitcoin supply, more than a month of global issuance pulled off the market in one trading day.
Combined with Monday’s $1.17B, this week has produced $2.74 billion in STRC volume through just two sessions — and an estimated 29,914 BTC acquired via the ATM.
For context: last week’s total, confirmed via Strategy’s most recent 8-K filing, was 13,927 BTC across five full trading days.
This week has more than doubled that in 48 hours. +115%, with three sessions left.
Every share, every day
The stat that should not be buried: on both Monday and Tuesday, 100% of STRC’s traded volume cleared above the $100 par threshold. And the STRC ATM live tracker is the best way to watch it happen in real time.
That is the trigger condition for the ATM. Strategy’s variable-rate perpetual preferred is designed to convert demand into Bitcoin whenever the stock trades above par, and for two consecutive sessions, every tick has qualified. Not 84%. Not 95%. Every single share.
That’s a level of demand persistence the STRC ATM Tracker hasn’t seen before.
The acceleration, in numbers
Last week (confirmed, 5 days): $1.00B proceeds · 13,927 BTC
This week (2 days so far): $2.18B proceeds · 29,914 BTC
Delta: +115% BTC, in 40% of the trading time
ATM streak: 10 consecutive days with activity above par
At the current pace, this week is tracking toward a run rate of roughly 75,000 BTC in five days, a figure that, if it holds, would rewrite what “large corporate Bitcoin treasury” even means.
It almost certainly won’t hold. Monday and Tuesday are outliers by definition. But even a sharp deceleration over the back half of the week leaves Strategy’s STRC ATM on pace for multiples of every prior week on record. You can watch the next three sessions unfold live here.
What changed
Two things, mechanically:
Price discipline. STRC has parked at exactly $100.00, yield 11.5%, with zero deviation. Every share that transacted, transacted at the trigger.
Volume expansion. $1.17B to $1.57B from Monday to Tuesday is a 34% day-over-day jump on an already record-setting base. Demand isn’t just holding; it’s accelerating intraday.
The pattern Strategy has been executing, build the instrument, park it at par, let the market do the conversion, is working at a scale that was theoretical last year.
The bigger picture
In the 10 trading days since the ATM went active, the market has absorbed estimated BTC in quantities that rival multi-year treasury accumulation strategies from other corporate Bitcoin buyers. And the instrument has one job: buy more.
Today’s number is not a one-day spike. It’s the second day of a pattern. And the pattern, so far, looks like this:
Back-to-back billion-dollar weeks. Back-to-back billion-dollar days. Every single share above par. Three trading days remain in the week. Track STRC ATM here →
Get the numbers first
The ATM moves fast, but the data that matters drops on an 8-K cadence, and the story around it is worth a deeper read than a tweet can carry.
Every Monday, The STRC Report delivers the full weekly recap: confirmed 8-K data, capture rates, BTC acquisition breakdowns, and the context behind the numbers. Free, no noise, no hype, just the data.
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Disclaimer: This content was prepared on behalf of Bitcoin For Corporations for informational purposes only. It reflects the author’s own analysis and opinion and should not be relied upon as investment advice. Nothing in this article constitutes an offer, invitation, or solicitation to purchase, sell, or subscribe for any security or financial product.Live estimates only, 15-minute intervals, and full methodology at bitcoinforcorporations.com/strc-atm-tracker. All figures are tracker estimates derived from public market data, actual ATM proceeds and BTC acquisitions are disclosed in Strategy’s SEC filings.
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The decentralized exchange aggregator said users should refrain from visiting its website after a frontend exploit.
Decentralized exchange aggregator CoW Swap is calling on users to refrain from using its website after an unknown party hijacked its domain.
In a Tuesday X post, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind CoW Swap said its website had experienced a “DNS [Domain Name System] hijacking,” leading to a pause of its backend and APIs. The frontend exploit, through the website http://swap.cow.fi, was ongoing at the time of publication.
“We are now actively working to resolve the situation,” said CoW Swap. “Please continue to refrain from using swap dot cow dot fi until we confirm that it is safe to use.”
Source: CoW Swap
DNS attacks like the one CoW Swap reported are not uncommon among crypto and blockchain companies where user funds are at risk from phishing attempts. Decentralized exchange Balancer reported a domain attack in 2023, while Curve Finance said it has experienced multiple DNS hijackings.
Related: Firestorm erupts in Aave governance forum over CoW Swap fees
The price of the CoW Protocol’s COW token dropped more than 3% amid news of the domain hijacking, to $0.2159 from $0.2229.
Web3 hacks, driven by phishing, resulted in a half billion dollars in losses in Q1 2026
Blockchain security company Hacken reported on Tuesday that Web3 projects lost $482 million to hacks and scams in the first quarter of 2026. According to Hacken, there were 44 incidents over Q1 2026, most of which were phishing and social engineering attacks.
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Goldman Sachs has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a Bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund designed to generate income while limiting exposure to the cryptocurrency’s volatility, according to a preliminary prospectus dated April 14.
The proposed Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Premium Income ETF would aim to deliver current income alongside capital appreciation by investing primarily in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) and related options, rather than holding Bitcoin (BTC) directly.
The fund would generate yield by selling call options on Bitcoin-linked ETPs, a strategy that can produce premium income but may cap upside in rising markets.
According to the filing, the actively managed fund would maintain at least 80% exposure to Bitcoin-linked assets and could allocate as much as 25% of its holdings through a Cayman Islands subsidiary, a structure commonly used to gain commodities exposure under the US Investment Company Act.
The fund expects to vary its options “overwrite” strategy — that is, selling call options against its holdings — between roughly 40% and 100% of its Bitcoin exposure depending on market conditions, and may distribute a significant portion of returns as income or return of capital.
It would gain exposure through a mix of spot Bitcoin ETPs and derivatives, combining direct holdings with options-based positions. The strategy may perform better in flat or moderately rising markets but could underperform during strong rallies as upside is capped.
Eric Balchunas, ETF analyst at Bloomberg, described the product as “Boomer Candy” in a post on X, suggesting the structure may appeal to investors seeking income and lower volatility over full upside exposure.
Source: Eric Balchunas
Separately, Goldman Chair and CEO David Solomon told analysts on Monday that the company last week closed on its acquisition of Innovator Capital Management, an issuer of defined outcome exchange-traded funds. The addition of Innovator’s 170 ETFs puts Goldman in the top 10 of global active ETF providers, Solomon said on the first-quarter earnings call.
Related:Bitcoin ETFs clock $291M outflows as BTC blasts past $74K
Active crypto ETFs gain traction as strategies evolve beyond price tracking
The filing from Goldman Sachs comes as asset managers move beyond basic price-tracking crypto funds, with more complex and actively managed strategies gaining traction across the ETF market.
In January, Bitwise Asset Management launched an actively managed ETF designed to hedge against currency debasement. The fund allocates across assets including Bitcoin, precious metals and mining equities, reflecting a broader push to integrate digital assets into diversified, macro-focused portfolios.
In March, T. Rowe Price amended its filing with the SEC for a proposed actively managed crypto ETF that would invest directly in digital assets. The updated prospectus outlines a portfolio that may include assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL).
Fund issuer 21Shares is also expanding into more sophisticated strategies. In February, the company launched a Europe-listed ETP tied to Strategy’s preferred stock (STRC), offering exposure to a yield-generating instrument linked to the company’s Bitcoin-focused capital strategy.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, 21Shares President Duncan Moir said the shift reflects broader demand for more advanced products, noting that crypto is “particularly well-suited to active management.”
According to a March report compiled by Morningstar and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, active ETFs held nearly $1.8 trillion in assets globally at the end of 2025, with flows significantly outpacing passive products.
“Why Active ETFs Are Gaining Momentum as Investors Seek New Solutions.” Source: Goldmansachs.com
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Visa, Stripe, and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered have become the first external validators to join the Tempo stablecoin payments blockchain.
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Incubated by Stripe and backed by crypto investment firm Paradigm, Tempo is an independent company working on a payments-oriented blockchain for high-scale, real-world financial services application.
Unveiled in September, in December the venture began testing its mainnet with partners including Visa and Mastercard. In March the mainnet went live, promising the ability to handle high volumes of low-cost stablecoin transactions.
Visa’s validator node has been configured and managed in-house, following six months of joint work with Tempo’s engineering team to directly integrate its secure infrastructure to the Tempo network.
The payments giant says that this approach places it at the core of transaction validation and supports the overall security of the network. By operating as an anchor validator during this initial phase, Visa is helping ensure Tempo operates with the reliability, resilience, and performance required for emerging payment use cases.
Cuy Sheffield, head, crypto, Visa, says: “By operating a validator on Tempo, we’re extending Visa’s commitment to reliability, security, and trust into blockchain networks – supporting the development of stablecoin payment systems that meet the high operating standards our clients and partners expect.”
CoW Swap, a decentralized trading interface, said Tuesday it temporarily halted its services after detecting a domain name system (DNS) hijacking incident affecting its website, underscoring ongoing security risks at the front-end layer of DeFi platforms.
In a post on X, the team said the attack occurred at 14:54 UTC and warned users to avoid interacting with its interface until further notice. While the protocol’s underlying infrastructure, including its backend and APIs, was not directly compromised, both were paused “as a precaution” as the team worked to resolve the issue.
DNS hijacking allows attackers to redirect users from a legitimate domain to a malicious lookalike site, often with the goal of draining crypto wallets or harvesting private data. The attack vector has become a persistent weak point in decentralized finance, where users typically rely on web-based interfaces to access otherwise secure smart contracts.
CoW Swap operates as a decentralized exchange aggregator, sourcing liquidity across venues and using a mechanism known as “Coincidence of Wants” to match trades directly between users or batch them for more efficient execution. Orders are handled by competing “solvers” that optimize trade outcomes, a design intended to reduce slippage and limit exposure to maximal extractable value (MEV).
MEV is a practice on the blockchain where bots reorder transactions to extract profit at users’ expense, making mitigation key to ensuring fair pricing and protecting traders.
The platform is governed by CoW DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization spun out of the Gnosis ecosystem. The project has positioned itself as a user-protective alternative in DeFi trading, emphasizing execution quality and fairer trading outcomes.
“We are now actively working to resolve the situation. Please continue to refrain from using swap dot cow dot fi until we confirm that it is safe to use,” the team wrote on X.
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