Morning Edition · Monday, July 13, 2026
Crypto
Cantor and Adam Back Abandon Original Terms of 30,021-Bitcoin Treasury Merger
The scrapped financing package, alongside a 95% collapse in Eric Trump's American Bitcoin, exposes the funding strain in debt-and-preferred Bitcoin treasury vehicles.
Crypto
Forged Oracle Signature Drains $9.05 Million From Hedera's Largest Lender
A flaw in a third-party Supra oracle accepted a zeroed cryptographic signature as valid, inflating a token's price by twelve orders of magnitude and letting the attacker borrow far beyond collateral.
Crypto
Bitcoin's BIP 110 Anti-Spam Fork Nears Its Deadline With Zero Miner Support
Michael Saylor, Adam Back and others warn that turning a dispute over arbitrary on-chain data into a consensus fork poses a larger risk than the data it targets.
Tech
Privacy Layer-2 Networks Reframe Confidential Execution as an Institutional Requirement
Aztec and Miden publish detailed accounts of how their transactions hide sender, receiver and amount while remaining verifiable, arguing privacy is a prerequisite for serious on-chain use.
Tech
Ethereum Researchers Probe Sybil Attacks on a Proposed Censorship-Resistance Design
A new analysis argues an inclusion-list scheme meant to keep transactions from being censored could itself be gamed by attackers spinning up fake identities.
Crypto
Stablecoin Supply Contracts About $10 Billion From May Peak
June alone shed $7.7 billion, by CoinDesk's account the largest monthly dollar decline since the Terra collapse in 2022, as Tether and USD Coin both shrank.
Crypto
Japan Pairs State Web3 Backing With Its First Point-of-Sale Stablecoin Trial
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi endorsed startup funding and rule changes at WebX 2026 as convenience-store operator Lawson prepares an August test of the JPYC yen stablecoin at checkout.
Crypto
Interpol Traces $122 Million Through a Single Wallet in Global Fraud Sweep
The operation resulted in 5,811 arrests and showed how cross-chain token swaps complicate tracing scam proceeds across services, assets and borders.
Crypto
Seized Crypto Moves From a Prisoner's Wallets, and a DeFi Loss Roundup
The US Justice Department secured a forfeiture order but not the private keys, and coins moved to unknown wallets, while the security tracker Rekt records another series of protocol losses.
Crypto
Draft of the Clarity Act Said to Be Near, but Obstacles Remain
Multiple sources told CoinDesk a fresh version of the US market-structure bill could appear this week, testing how far crypto's political spending translates into law.
Geopolitics
Bitcoin Holds Near $63,800 as Fourth Round of US Strikes on Iran Moves Other Markets
Gold, oil, stocks and bonds reacted sharply to the escalation and Tehran's renewed closure of the Strait of Hormuz, while Bitcoin and ether were little changed.
Crypto
Ripple's CEO Says the Company Once Weighed Shutting Down and Handing XRP to Shareholders
Brad Garlinghouse's disclosure lands as XRP futures positioning drops by about $700 million and spot ETFs record net outflows, even while the XRP Ledger builds an institutional pipeline.