Asset	USD	24 h
BTC Bitcoin	84,552	+0.5%
ETH Ethereum	2,691	+0.1%
SOL Solana	122	+0.5%
XRP XRP	1.52	−0.7%
BNB BNB	777	+0.6%
DOGE Dogecoin	0.10	−0.7%
ZEC Zcash	1,588	+1.4%
HYPE Hyperliquid	92	−0.1%

Asset	USD	Day
TSM	451	−0.1%
MSFT	516	+3.7%
NVDA	225	+0.2%
BABA	110	−0.8%
META	752	−3.3%
AMZN	250	+0.1%
GOOGL	344	+0.5%
AMD	631	+0.2%

Model	Input	Output
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic	10.00	50.00
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI	10.00	50.00
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google	0.75	3.75
Grok 4.7 xAI	1.60	4.80
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	0.25	3.50
Qwen3.8 Max Prime Alibaba	4.00	12.00
Kimi K3 Moonshot	3.00	15.00
GLM-5.3 Prime Zhipu	2.80	8.80

A paper proposes private bitcoin payments with Zcash technology without changing the network's rules

The 56-page specification by Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin of the firm [alloc] init still has no way to deposit real BTC or withdraw it, per CoinDesk.

Bitcoin-denominated value would be held in encrypted records called "notes". Bitcoin would store the data but not verify it: that job falls to separate software. A private transfer would take about 700 virtual bytes, versus 100 to 200 for an ordinary transaction, with fees roughly 4 times higher at the same rate, per CoinDesk.

There is no launch date, and the system relies on a trusted cryptographic setup. Mert Mumtaz described it as "a synthetic ledger with significant tradeoffs", per CoinDesk.

Sources: CoinDesk

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