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The issuer switched bitcoin, ether and five altcoin funds to FTSE Russell indices at Thursday’s market open. The change affects daily valuation infrastructure, not the assets, fees, custodians or exchange listings behind the products.
A transaction using StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy’s hash-based QSB construction was confirmed in Bitcoin block 964,199. The test demonstrates a narrow emergency spending path, not quantum protection for Bitcoin generally.
U.S. spot bitcoin funds recorded $232.2 million of net inflows for Aug. 26, taking their eight-session run to about $2.80 billion. The demand was concentrated in BlackRock’s IBIT, while bitcoin remained below its week’s intraday high on a regulated daily benchmark.
HM Treasury plans to make payments innovation a secondary Bank of England objective while preserving financial stability as the central bank’s priority. The proposal could shape how the Bank finalizes and applies its systemic stablecoin regime, but it is not yet law.