IonQ announced Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Elisity in an all-stock transaction valued at up to $1.3 billion. Up to $150 million of this amount is earnout compensation, depending on Elisity’s business performance. IonQ expects to complete the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2026. The number of IonQ shares … Read more
Stablecoin payments infrastructure provider Rain has filed an application to establish a national trust bank headquartered in New York, adding to a wave of crypto companies seeking bank charters over the past year. Rain said this on Monday filed Application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for establishment of Rain National … Read more
Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction, Christian Tramer said MiCA increased trust in regulated platforms and called for tougher enforcement against non-compliant entities. According to Christian Tramer, co-CEO of Austria-based crypto exchange Bitpanda, European crypto users are placing more trust in regulated platforms following the implementation of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Asset Framework (MiCA). Speaking … Read more
Is Zero Trust Still Effective in the AI Age? A new book by John Kindervag says yes, but that requires correct implementation. John Kindervag introduced the concept of Zero Trust in a Forrester Research report titled No more tough centers: introducing the zero trust model of information security published in 2010. Since then, the concept … Read more