Anthropic's Claude AI uncovered the origins of five NIST elliptic curve seeds used in cryptography, solving a 25-year-old mystery about their provenance. This discovery shows the seeds were generated using a simple pseudorandom number generator, reducing concerns that the NSA inserted backdoors. Ripple's head of engineering praised the breakthrough, highlighting AI's potential to clarify cryptographic uncertainties. While not a security threat, the finding increases confidence in widely used cryptographic standards and opens doors for AI to solve other cryptography puzzles.
Ripple's head of engineering and AI in cryptography provide context for cryptocurrency market activity. For readers following major cryptocurrencies on Pluang, here is the market snapshot as of Oct 18, 2026 13:21 WIB: out of 50 priced major cryptocurrencies, 6 rose and 43 fell. EOS rose 8.13% to Rp12.649 with a typical hold time of 87 days, ZIL fell 7.36% to Rp41 with 71% buy order activity, and DOT dropped 6.67% to Rp19.689 with 54% sell order activity.
Bitcoin's network fees have dropped to the technical minimum of one satoshi per virtual byte, costing about 12 cents for a standard withdrawal, even though the mempool backlog is large with over 71,000 transactions queued. Most queued transactions bi...
Mike McGlone from Bloomberg Intelligence predicts Bitcoin could drop to $10,000 if U.S. stocks fall 20%, citing bond yields and stock market correlation. In contrast, Ki Young Ju of CryptoQuant argues this is unlikely, estimating a Bitcoin floor arou...
Micron Technology is rated a Buy for a 12-month holding period, trading at 6.0 times its annualized guided earnings. Over 75% of its fiscal 2027 shipments are secured by contracts or allocations, which include pricing floors and ceilings to reduce do...
Over the past seven days, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges experienced a net inflow of Bitcoin (BTC), indicating more BTC was deposited than withdrawn overall. Binance and OKX saw positive inflows, while Coinbase Pro recorded an outflow, showing ...
The PUMP token price fell 19.7% over seven days despite Pump.fun generating a record $60 million in fees over 30 days. Market indicators showed weakening short-term signals with a nearly 10% drop in open interest and negative funding rates, suggestin...
