Crypto & Blockchain · Wed, Oct 7, 2026

Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, DeFi, smart contracts, scaling and consensus.

arXiv cs.CR · cs.CY

Pump-and-Dump meets Honeypot Tokens: Detection and Analysis of Telegram Bait-and-Trap Schemes

In briefPump-and-Dump Meets Honeypot Tokens: Detecting Telegram Bait-and-Trap Scams

SummaryThe paper monitors 83 Telegram channels used to coordinate Pump-and-Dump campaigns, collecting 3,677 events across BNB Smart Chain and Ethereum. It finds these schemes use honeypot tokens whose smart contracts let buyers purchase but not sell, a mechanism the authors call Bait-and-Trap. The authors also present a transaction-simulation tool that detects honeypot tokens before purchase.

Federico Cernera, Massimo La Morgia, Alessandro Mei et al.

arXiv cs.LG · cond-mat.dis-nn · physics.app-ph

Matching of signal, noise and hardware timescales for filtering and forecasting of correlated noise signals

In briefMatching signal, noise, and hardware timescales to filter or forecast correlated noise

SummaryThis paper studies how physical reservoir computing handles time series containing correlated noise, using a nanoporous niobium oxide reservoir, synthetic noisy signals, and cryptocurrency price volatility. The authors find that the relationship among noise correlation time, reservoir memory, and forecast horizon determines whether noise is filtered out or predicted. They introduce a reservoir memory horizon and a forecasting regime index to distinguish these operating regimes.

Joshua Donald, Alex Gabbitas, Arthur G. T. Coveney et al.

arXiv physics.optics · cond-mat.mes-hall · quant-ph

Phonon-Enabled Collective Strong Coupling of Color Centers in a Plasmonic Cavity

In briefPhonon-mediated collective strong coupling of color centers in a plasmonic cavity

SummaryThis paper uses cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence spectroscopy to show cavity-mediated interactions between two hBN quantum emitters in the same gold void cavity at room temperature. A vibronic transition of the 443 nm emitter hybridizes with the cavity mode, producing a spectral splitting, while the 537 nm emitter stays in the weak-coupling regime. The authors conclude that vibronic transitions offer a pathway for controlling interactions among multiple quantum emitters.

Bharti Garg, Prabhdeep Singh, Masoud Taleb et al.

arXiv quant-ph · cs.LG

Q-PhotoMarket: A Design Space Exploration Framework for Photonic Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks in Financial Market Prediction

In briefQ-PhotoMarket: A design-space exploration framework for photonic quantum neural networks used in market forecasting

SummaryThis paper presents Q-PhotoMarket, a framework that systematically explores design choices for photonic hybrid quantum neural networks applied to financial market prediction. The authors evaluate over 5,000 valid photonic configurations across input photon states, circuit architectures, entangling models, and measurement strategies, using U.S., Indian, and cryptocurrency market data. Bayesian optimization, threshold calibration, and prediction-collapse diagnostics are used to support the search and evaluation. The reported results indicate consistent architectural patterns across markets and some designs that perform competitively with classical machine learning baselines.

Alberto Marchisio, Hanzalah Mohamed Siraj, Muhammad Kashif et al.