Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Crypto
Coldcard Key-Generation Flaw Pushes Bitcoin Losses Past $130 Million
A firmware fallback shipped in March 2021 made seed phrases predictable, and the wallet holding roughly $36 million of the proceeds has filled with messages from victims.
Crypto
Aztec Ships Alpha V5 With Private Proofs Generated on Phones and Laptops
Proving times for private transactions fell by more than half and block times dropped from 14 seconds to 6, while OpenZeppelin's Guardian layer on Miden addresses the harder problem of recovering a private account.
Crypto
Bitcoin's Data-Limit Soft Fork Reaches Its Signaling Deadline With Miner Support Below 1 Percent
BIP-110 would cap arbitrary data in transactions for about a year, and its backers have built an alternative activation path that does not require the miners who have declined to signal.
Crypto
Senate Crypto Market-Structure Bill Stays Off the Calendar as Recess Approaches
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the president's memecoin, and Republicans say Democratic objections are what stalled the bill.
Crypto
Researchers Publish Exploit Reproductions for Three DeFi Drains, Including an EIP-7702 Self-Delegation Attack
The MOKE token was drained through an unprotected claim function combined with a wallet-delegation feature added to Ethereum last year, while LpdFi lost close to $700,000 to flash-loan price manipulation.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Argue Statelessness Creates a New Centralization Point
A proposal on Ethereum's research forum says planned upgrades will leave few parties holding full state, and offers a distributed alternative to specialized state providers.
Crypto
Western Union and Samsung Push Stablecoins Into Consumer Distribution
Western Union launched a stablecoin-funded Visa card across 37 markets, Mastercard closed its purchase of payments firm BVNK, and analysts expect Samsung to turn 800 million phones into digital-asset wallets.
Crypto
Wells Fargo Joins JPMorgan and Citi in Tokenizing Corporate Deposits
The bank will settle corporate payments continuously on its own private blockchain, routed through the client interface companies already use.
Crypto
GameStop Swaps $1.4 Billion of Convertible Debt for Stock With Bitcoin Option Terms Undisclosed
The exchange retires the notes without spending cash, while SpaceX reported a $540 million decline on its bitcoin holdings in its first quarter as a public company.
Markets
Bitcoin Holds Near $64,000 as Treasury Cash Management Drains Bank Reserves
Global equity indexes rose and Brent crude fell as a possible Strait of Hormuz agreement approached, while XRP open interest declined.
Crypto
FBI Counterintelligence Agent Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Seized Crypto
Prosecutors say Patrick Steven Yaroch planned to leave the country with the funds, while three Missouri men pleaded not guilty to a separate plot to rob a bitcoin holder at home.
World
Bhutan Hires an Outside Manager for Part of Its Bitcoin Reserves
The Canadian firm 3iQ will manage some of the holdings tied to the Gelephu Mindfulness City project, as Kenya prepares to record more than 30 million academic credentials on Avalanche.