Ledger unveiled Atom, an $849 hardware wallet designed to block malicious implants discovered in devices sold through an Asian reseller, with protections active even when powered off and a planned launch in summer 2027. Mark Karpeles, former Mt Gox CEO, and Pascal Gauthier, Ledger CEO, publicly clashed over the company’s handling of spyware alerts dating back to December 2025, following the theft of over $90 million. On the quantum front, Google demonstrated a 40-fold error reduction with its Willow processor while Starknet launched a vote, passing by over 99%, to transform into a post-quantum L1 in response to AI-driven threats. Russia will ban peer-to-peer crypto transactions starting July 1, 2027, requiring authorized intermediaries, while Standard Chartered projects stablecoin market capitalization to reach $2 trillion by 2030.
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