Morning Edition · Monday, June 22, 2026
Crypto
Taiko Halts Its Ethereum Layer-2 After Forged Bridge Proofs Drain $1.7 Million
An attacker submitted withdrawal proofs that the network accepted as genuine. This is the same proof-validation weakness behind major bridge thefts this year, and Taiko stopped producing blocks to contain the damage.
Tech
Ethereum Researchers Pitch a Native zkEVM That Scales Bandwidth, Not Just Speed
A new proposal argues that building zero-knowledge proofs into Ethereum's base layer should expand how much data the chain can move, which is the real constraint on layer-2 throughput.
Crypto
Privacy Chains Sharpen Their Pitch: Confidentiality as a Default, With a Controlled Off-Switch
Aztec and Miden are publishing competing answers to the hardest question in private blockchains. Who can reveal private transactions, and on whose authority?
Crypto
Ethereum Proposal Would Let Validators Divert Up to 10% of Staking Rewards to Fund the Network
A governance proposal aims to solve a free-rider problem in public-goods funding, in which everyone benefits but no one wants to pay. It raises a pointed question about who decides where validators' money goes.
Crypto
Bank of England Drops Holding Caps in Final Stablecoin Rules
The central bank dropped proposed limits on how much of a regulated stablecoin a person could hold and eased reserve requirements, a notable easing for systemically important tokens.
Crypto
Microsoft Flags USB-Borne Wallet Malware as a Distinct Attack Surface Grows
Beyond smart-contract exploits, key-stealing malware that compromises the device itself is becoming a separate and expanding threat to self-custody, alongside a steady series of mid-size decentralized finance (DeFi) thefts.
Crypto
CME Sues the CFTC Over How Crypto Perpetual Futures Got Approved
The exchange operator argues the regulator wrongly approved the first perpetual futures product in the United States, opening a jurisdictional dispute just as Binance prepares to list its own perpetual contracts.
Crypto
Bitcoin Developers Move to Retire a Fee Feature That Became a Tracking Fingerprint
The 'replace by fee' option that lets users speed up a delayed transaction has become a privacy liability, and core developers now want to phase it out.
Crypto
UBS Tokenized Money-Market Fund Becomes Trading Collateral on Bybit
The first client deployment shows tokenized real-world assets functioning as live collateral, but custody, valuation, and liquidation terms remain the unresolved questions.
Crypto
Prediction Markets Doubt the CLARITY Act Despite Talk of Imminent Passage
The prevailing narrative holds that the US crypto market-structure bill is closer to becoming law than at any earlier point, but bettors put the odds of passage in 2026 near 55%, a gap between the narrative and what bettors actually expect.
Crypto
Solana Becomes a Settlement Choice for Banks and Exchanges Expanding On-Chain
South Korea's Toss Bank chose Solana for a cross-border remittance trial while Kraken used it to offer access to thousands of tokens, two different approaches to the same high-throughput chain.
Markets
Bitcoin Holds Near $64,000 as ETF Outflows Reach a Sixth Week
A roadmap toward a United States-Iran deal raised stock prices and lowered oil prices, but crypto remained weak ahead of a large Bitcoin options expiry on Friday.