Morning Digest: October 17, 2026

Zanyuk Morning Digest · Oct 17, 2026 · 17m

Saturday's crypto lead is Anthropic's Claude solving where the NSA got the seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves, including P-256, which makes a hidden backdoor much less plausible. Aerie bundles thousands of post-quantum signatures into one small proof, nine firms formed the Quantum Alliance, Glamsterdam heads to the Hoodi testnet, Coinbase will power Marqeta's stablecoin cards, and Circle opened its books. Health on trained athletes adding blood-flow-restriction intervals, caffeine and velocity-based squats, plus arts attendance and dementia risk; Trump's waiver of the Graham Act Russia…