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Krishna's timeline pulls commercial quantum computing inside the half-decade window, with Alphabet, IonQ and Rigetti in the race and crypto watching the long-term encryption threat.
The portfolio gives Circle the largest US blockchain patent stack and a sharper negotiating edge as stablecoins move from crypto trading into settlement, treasury and mainstream payments.
The IP spans foundational blockchain technology, banking, and supply chain verification, and directly underpins USDC, the Circle Payments Network, and the Arc blockchain.
The undisclosed-price deal vaults Circle past Bank of America and Advanced New Technologies as the largest US blockchain patent holder, with USDC, Arc, and AI-agent tooling as named deployment…
A quarter this soft from a $200B-plus megacap is rare and the move is dragging the broader tech tape; IBM's own revenue trajectory now gets second-guessed alongside it.
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