Author: Redazione

When it comes to security in Bitcoin, the public almost always looks to the wallet, the multisig or the seed backup. But the uncomfortable truth is that it all starts before that: fromentropy, that is, from the initial randomness with which the wallet generates private keys. If that base is weak, nothing can really remedy the problem, not even the best hardware wallet or the best safekeeping procedure. This is precisely the central point highlighted by BitVault in its in-depth study: 128 bits of entropy, those typical of a 12-word wallet, are already considered sufficient against today’s practical attacks, while…

The momentum that Hyperliquid is experiencing tells more than just a platform rally: it tells how on-chain finance is trying to take over spaces that until yesterday belonged exclusively to translation desks, investment banks and private funds. In the week of 14 May, the aggregate open interest of the HIP-3 index hit an all-time high of $2.66 billion, up more than 800% since the start of the year and a share of close to 29% of Hyperliquid’s entire OI. It’s a figure that says one very simple thing: when the platform begins to host markets that lock in the pricing…

Polymarket launches markets on valuations of OpenAI, SpaceX and other private companies, opening a new frontier for price discovery and sentiment. Polymarket has just taken a step that pushes prediction markets out of the classical perimeter of politics, macro and crypto and into the heart of private finance: the valuations of unlisted companies. The platform, which is already the most widely followed thermometer for sentiment on real events, has introduced dedicated markets for companies such as OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic and other private companies, with the aim of letting traders trade probabilities on verifiable milestones such as IPOs, valuations and secondary…

We had the pleasure of meeting BitVault at the last edition of the PlanB Forum in Lugano in 2025, an event that gathered the most influential names in European Bitcoin. BitVault is a native Bitcoin open source wallet that combines multisig miniscripts with programmable time delays (2 hours-15 days), designed to protect HODLers from physical heists and digital hacks. Non-custodial, hardware-first and enterprise-ready, it positions itself as a universal security layer. Official website: bitvault.sv. Here is an interview with Francesco Madonna, CEO of BitVault. BitVault was born from a specific awareness: traditional wallets are no longer enough. Where does this…

The crypto market is undergoing a silent but profound transition, where liquidity flows are shifting from speculative to more structured channels. Polymarket is the most obvious example of this: crypto trading volume has plummeted 58% to below USD 240 million per week, but average daily commissions have reached USD 1.07 million, tripling since the end of March. The introduction of taker fees at the beginning of January did not stop the initial growth, but the real scrap came with the upgrading of the taker rate from 0.37% to 2.65%, which wiped out the profitability of high-frequency strategies in bullish/short markets.…

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April 2026, calling it its strongest general availability model for software engineering, enterprise workflows, and long-running agent tasks. It is not the strongest model in the house, because that role remains with Mythos Preview, but it is the one the company has decided to really put in the hands of the market, with availability on Claude, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry at the same prices as Opus 4.6: $5 per million tokens in input and $25 per million in output. The move is significant because it moves the boundary…

OpenAI started the rollout of ChatGPT Images 2.0 on 21 April 2026, presenting it as a concrete evolution of its visual generation system within ChatGPT and marking an important step: the AI image is no longer treated as a side feature, but as a real creative environment. The novelty lies not only in the aesthetic quality, but above all in the model’s ability to better follow instructions, maintain consistency between characters, objects and visual style, and work on several variants simultaneously without losing the thread of the initial request. This change should be read within a broader industry trend. In…

In the midst of a crypto market that continues to look for new narrative engines beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, a seemingly sideways segment is sending a very serious signal: tokenized Pokémon cards are no longer just a curiosity for digital collectors, but an embryonic and already monetisable form of real world asset. In the week ending 6 April, the Pokémon Trading Card Game marketplaces generated some $5.38 million in sales, approaching the all-time high recorded in September 2025. The difference this time is in the quality of the growth. September’s peak had been drugged largely by a single speculative event,…

There is one detail that the market has caught before many crypto observers: not everyone wants exposure to Bitcoin by buying Bitcoin directly. A growing portion prefers to do so through hybrid instruments, with more tame returns, corporate structure and volatility. That’s exactly where STRC, one of Strategy’s preferred stocks, ended up at the centre of its busiest trading week ever as investors prepared for its mid-April ex-dividend date. The mechanism is as simple and as old as Wall Street. In the days leading up to the ex-dividend date, many traders accumulate shares to cash in on the impending payout,…

DeFi is back to doing what it does worst at critical times: promising returns from the financial future and then reminding users that the infrastructure, under pressure, is still frighteningly fragile. On 18 April, an attacker stole some 116,500 rsETH from the LayerZero-based Kelp DAO bridge, worth close to $292 million, or about 18 per cent of the token’s circulating supply. It was not only one of the biggest DeFi exploits of the year, but an event that immediately contaminated the rest of the industry, dragging with it protocols that had not been breached directly but were found to be…