Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Crypto
Senate Shelves CLARITY Act Before Recess as SEC Says It Will Write Crypto Rules Itself
Bitcoin fell about 3 percent to near 63,270 dollars as the market-structure bill received little Senate floor time, even as BlackRock, Fidelity and Goldman Sachs publicly endorsed it.
Crypto
On-Chain Theft Reached 1.1 Billion Dollars in First Half as Reward-Vault Exploits Continue
Blockaid counted 212 incidents through June, with stolen keys now overtaking contract bugs, while fresh self-dealing attacks drained a token contract of about 605,000 dollars.
Crypto
Ethereum Privacy Projects Reframe Confidentiality as the Condition for Banks to Go On-Chain
EthSystems spun out of the Ethereum Foundation to build privacy infrastructure for banks, as Aztec's Alpha V5 network cut private-transaction proving times by more than half.
Tech
Anthropic Says Claude Found a Real Weakness in a Post-Quantum Signature Under US Review
The model broke a 256-bit version of the HAWK candidate in about 60 hours for roughly 100,000 dollars, and separately sped up an attack on a reduced version of the AES cipher.
Crypto
A Single Anomalous Trade Crashed a Tokenized SK Hynix Perp 20% and Liquidated 57 Million Dollars
The oracle for Hyperliquid's HIP-3 market read a single off-exchange trade 30 percent below the prior close, and Trade.xyz says it will cover eligible losses.
Tech
Ethereum Researchers Turn to Mechanism Design to Kill Oracle-Extractable Value at the Source
New proposals aim to eliminate the value that arbitrageurs extract from oracle updates through state synchronization, part of a shift toward coordination design as the field's frontier.
Geopolitics
Russia's Central Bank Publishes Draft Crypto-Trading Rules Ahead of a Fall Framework
Digital-asset platforms would need to hold up to about 2.8 million dollars in liquid capital under depository rules that keep custody inside licensed institutions.
Crypto
Ondo Abandons Its Public Tokenization Blockchain for a Private High-Speed Trading Network
The reversal powers the firm's new perpetual-futures platform and signals that some tokenization ventures prefer controlled venues to open, composable chains.
Crypto
ARK Researcher Expects More Crypto Bankruptcies and Shutdowns as Revenue Concentrates
Lorenzo Valente says falling volumes and rising compliance costs will push consolidation onto a shrinking group of dominant platforms.
Crypto
Federal Judge Blocks Minnesota's Prediction-Market Felony Law Days Before It Took Effect
Kalshi and Polymarket can keep serving Minnesota users while courts decide whether their event contracts are gambling or federally regulated derivatives.
Markets
Bitcoin Treasury Firms Keep Buying as a New Metric Reframes the Case for Preferred-Stock Buybacks
Core Scientific and Hyperscale added coins in the second quarter, while Strategy's STRC buyback math shifts the debate to net Bitcoin per share.
Tech
Fake Wallet Apps and Seed-Phrase Malware Widen Crypto's Endpoint Attack Surface
A lawsuit says an App Store-promoted fake Bitcoin wallet stole 1.8 million dollars, while the SparkKitty malware harvests seed phrases from iOS and Android apps.