Morning Edition · Monday, August 3, 2026
Crypto
Coldcard Wallet Flaw From 2021 Lets Attacker Drain $89 Million in Bitcoin Without Touching a Device
Galaxy Research traces the theft to seeds built from predictable software randomness, and the roughly 1,367 stolen bitcoin remain unspent across the attacker's addresses.
Crypto
Aztec Ships Client-Side Proving on Ethereum, Putting Private Smart Contracts on Users' Own Devices
The Alpha V5 network generates zero-knowledge proofs locally, cuts private-transfer fees below five cents, and pushes confidential execution as a mainstream requirement rather than a niche.
Crypto
Crypto Market-Structure Bill Vanishes From Senate's Monday Schedule as Recess Nears
The CLARITY Act is absent from the floor plan, leaving leaders until roughly Wednesday to file for a possible Friday procedural vote before a summer break that runs to mid-September.
Crypto
Strategy Holds Its 12% Preferred Dividend Below Par, Breaking From Its Own Playbook
The STRC security closed at $89.46 against a $100 face value, and rather than raise the rate to support the price, Michael Saylor's firm relied on buybacks and a $3.75 billion cash reserve.
Crypto
Access-Control and Timing Bugs Drive a Fresh Round of On-Chain Exploits
A DeFiHackLabs proof-of-concept shows an unprotected arbitrary-call forwarder drained on Base, alongside a time-of-check-to-time-of-use flaw in Index Coop's issuance contract.
Macro
United States and Japan Confirm First Joint Yen Intervention in 15 Years
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States 'will not hesitate' to repeat the coordinated yen-buying, and that it drew on a Federal Reserve lending facility to do so.
Crypto
Crypto-Treasury Experiments Unravel at Small Public Companies as Marks Collapse
ZeroStack's crypto holdings fell from $163 million to $15 million, Interactive Strength wrote off a $50 million token bet, and a real-estate firm's $8 million balance may be locked.
Crypto
Miden Frames On-Chain Privacy as a Practical Requirement, Not an Ideological One
The privacy team argues confidentiality has to become a default feature for institutions to transact on public chains, and details a 'Guardian' recovery model to make it usable.
Markets
Crypto Exchanges Turn Perpetual Futures Into 24/7 Exposure to Stocks and Commodities
The instrument built to trade digital assets around the clock is now a 'reverse bridge' that brings equities and indexes onto crypto infrastructure without using a traditional broker.
Crypto
BitGo Chief Stakes 100 Bitcoin That an AI Model Cannot Break Its Wallet
Mike Belshe challenged Anthropic's Claude to move 100 BTC after three real-world test breaches, and says the wallet went untouched.
Crypto
A 12-Address Cluster Shows How Proprietary Routing Skews Solana Trading Outcomes
CryptoSlate finds a small group of bots winning trades 62% of the time versus 21% for others by routing through one protocol, evidence that on-chain advantage is now a microstructure design.
Crypto
Ten Undisclosed Investors Move to Seize a Nasdaq Company With 2,380 Bitcoin
The signed agreement targets closing within 12 business days and would replace leadership, but leaves a required capital increase and approvals unresolved.