The past night brought several landmark events: Core Lightning developers are raising the alarm over new vulnerabilities, researchers are testing quantum protection for bitcoin, and Unstoppable Domains is changing its strategy regarding Web3 domains.

Market: bitcoin sideways, alts mixed

Bitcoin (BTC) traded near $78,806 at 09:00 Moscow time, showing minimal volatility. Over the day, the price fluctuated in the range of $77,650–$79,200, with a final decline of only 0.46%. Ether (ETH) showed more confident momentum: up 1.06% to $2,493, with an overnight high of around $2,507.

Among the top-25 assets, Solana (SOL) stood out with a gain of 4.59%, followed by Chainlink (LINK) at 1.74% and BNB at 1.18%. The laggards were XRP (-2.70%), Canton (CC) (-2.10%), and Gram (GRAM) (-1.85%). In the top-100, the best result was shown by SPX6900 (SPX) with a rise of 17.11%, while Polygon (POL) plunged 13.42% and Pyth Network (PYTH) lost 10.13%.

ETF flows and liquidations

Spot ETFs continue to attract capital. Bitcoin funds received $232.12 million in a day, Ethereum products — $192.35 million, XRP — $28.14 million, Hyperliquid — $14.71 million, and Solana — $9.14 million. This indicates sustained institutional demand despite the sideways market movement.

The volume of liquidations over the day amounted to $258.53 million, affecting 89,812 traders. Interestingly, losses were distributed almost evenly: $130.51 million in shorts versus $128 million in longs. The largest liquidation order was on the ETHUSDT pair on Binance — $9.74 million.

Core Lightning: urgent call to update

Core Lightning developers urged node operators to install the upcoming security patch or take nodes offline. The reason is several vulnerability reports generated by AI over the past weeks. Details and CVE identifiers have not yet been disclosed, which is expected: the team will give itself about two weeks to fix the issue. This is a reminder that even mature protocols are vulnerable to new attack vectors.

Quantum era: first step for bitcoin

StarkWare researcher Avihu Levi conducted the first confirmed transaction under the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin scheme on the mainnet. The technology shifts security from elliptic curve cryptography to hash functions without a soft fork or consensus change. However, this is still an experiment: each transaction requires $75–150 in off-chain GPU computations. The solution is elegant, but mass adoption is still far off.

Unstoppable Domains abandons ICANN

Unstoppable Domains founder Matthew Gould stated that the company will not apply for Web3 domain registration in the new ICANN 2026 round. This concerns the .crypto, .wallet, .NFT, .Bitcoin, .DAO, and .ZIL zones. Customers who pre-ordered domains will receive refunds. Gould called the Web3 domain market "small and narrow," and the costs of legal procedures and auctions unjustifiably high. The company will continue to operate as an on-chain asset but will not enter the traditional DNS system for now.

My view: Unstoppable Domains' decision is a pragmatic step, but it signals stagnation in the Web3 domain niche. The quantum experiment is an important milestone, but the real threat from quantum computers has not yet arrived, and there is no need to rush implementation. The market remains in a consolidation phase, awaiting a trigger for directional movement.