Zhimin Qian purchased more than 100,000 bitcoin through a controlled exchange account before fleeing China in July 2017.

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Binance.US lost significant U.S. market share and suffered banking disruptions after international exchange Binance reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with U.S. regulators over financial law violations in 2023

Binance.US CEO Stephen Gregory, who was appointed in March 2026, has been working to restore U.S. trading activity and expand product offerings following years of regulatory challenges tied to Binance's 2023 settlement with U.S. authorities

World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture co-founded by Donald Trump, was informed of the Binance.US $100 million fundraising round but is not participating in it

Binance.US is working to restore state money transmitter licenses across the United States to expand its customer reach

Binance.US is seeking to raise up to $100 million in a private funding round that would value the cryptocurrency exchange at approximately $1 billion, according to reports in October 2026

Binance.US experienced reduced access to dollar payment services as a result of regulatory pressure following 2023 actions against global exchange Binance

Binance.US CEO Stephen Gregory outlined plans in July 2026 to pursue a Commodity Futures Trading Commission license allowing Binance.US to offer event contracts, prediction markets, and derivatives

The proposed $100 million private fundraising round size, valuation, and investor participation for Binance.US remain under discussion and could change

The proposed $1 billion valuation for Binance.US represents a sharp decline from its 2022 funding round, when the exchange raised over $200 million at a pre-money valuation of $4.5 billion

Deutsche Bank plans to launch cryptocurrency custody services in Germany within weeks, initially offering Bitcoin and Ethereum custody to institutional clients

Coinbase published technical priorities on October 13, 2026, outlining options for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, including staged wallet upgrades and freezing vulnerable dormant coins

A June 2026 study estimated that approximately 2.3 million Bitcoin held in lost, dormant, or early addresses cannot be moved to quantum-resistant addresses

Google Quantum AI white papers estimated in March 2026 that breaking Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography would require 1,200 to 1,450 logical qubits or under 500,000 physical qubits

Approximately 6.04 million to 6.26 million Bitcoin, representing over 30% of all mined Bitcoin, sit in quantum-vulnerable public key addresses

Southeast Asian hardware wallet reseller CryptoBilis was acquired six months prior to October 2026 by a Chinese national company

As of October 2026, Bitcoin had fallen nearly 35% from its October 2025 high, Ethereum over 50%, and Solana and XRP each 65%, partly attributed to quantum computing risks.

An estimated 6 million Bitcoin, representing over 30% of the total Bitcoin supply, is quantum-exposed at rest due to reliance on elliptic-curve signatures.

Babylon's Trustless Bitcoin Vaults protocol locks Bitcoin in self-custodial Taproot-based UTXOs directly on the Bitcoin network without transferring custody to third-party custodians.

Babylon Labs published an Aave Request for Comment proposal on October 14, 2026 to allow users to borrow stablecoins on Aave V4 against native Bitcoin collateral.

Because individual Bitcoin transaction outputs cannot be divided, liquidations target one BTCVault at a time, allowing liquidators to make repeated calls until position health is restored.