Morning Edition · Saturday, August 8, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Nodes Begin Rejecting Non-Signaling Blocks This Weekend Under BIP-110
A developer warns that selling coins on any minority chain could let buyers replay the same transaction on Bitcoin, so holders who make no transactions face the least risk.
Crypto
Galaxy Confirms 1,719 Bitcoin Stolen Through Coldcard Seed Flaw, With Total Losses Estimated Above $130 Million
A firmware update shipped in March 2021 cut the randomness in device-generated seeds, letting attackers recompute private keys offline without ever touching a wallet.
Crypto
Senate Leaves for Recess Without Passing the CLARITY Act, Pushing Crypto Market-Structure Rules to September
Bitwise expects the delay to pressure prices briefly before it removes a lasting source of uncertainty, while an OKX executive argues Democrats have no incentive to deliver Republicans a legislative victory before the midterm elections.
Crypto
Ethereum Proposal to Burn Validator Rewards to Zero Draws Opposition From a Large Treasury Holder
SharpLink's chief executive says EIP-8363 would push real staking yields to zero or below after costs, thinning the collateral base that on-chain lending depends on.
Crypto
XRP Ledger Amendments Would Encrypt Institutional Balances While Preserving Auditor Access
The proposal targets $530 million of tokenized assets already issued on the ledger, and arrives as Aztec discloses another flaw in the proving system behind its private layer 2.
Crypto
Bybit Sues North Korea Over the $1.5 Billion Hack and Wins an Order Freezing Traced Assets
The exchange named the Reconnaissance General Bureau and the Lazarus Group in a Washington federal court and obtained an injunction against unidentified holders of the stolen funds.
Geopolitics
United States Sanctions Two Crypto Exchanges Over Alleged Iranian Revolutionary Guard Fund Flows
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control named Shelbit and Aban Tether, extending a campaign to cut Tehran's access to digital dollars.
Crypto
Trump Media Cancels Its Crypto.com Token Treasury Deal and Turns to a Fusion Energy Merger
The retreat lands as SUI Group's shares trade about 25 percent below the value of its own token holdings, with 6 million tokens locked away until 2028.
Macro
United States Payrolls Fell 23,000 in July, and Bitcoin Traded Near $65,000 as Rate Expectations Shifted
Economists had expected a gain of roughly 80,000, and revisions removed another 103,000 jobs from May and June.
Crypto
Blockstream Researchers Sweep 25,935 Parameter Sets to Shrink Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Signatures
The chosen configuration makes the stateless fallback roughly a quarter smaller than the standardized alternative, and an open explorer lets anyone check or beat the result.
Crypto
An AI Security Sprint Produced 6,700 Findings on Bitcoin Code in 55 Hours With No Published Validity Rate
The exercise shows machine review can fill a triage queue faster than maintainers can empty it, and public data does not yet show how many findings were real.
Crypto
Attackers Take Over an Abandoned Governance Contract as Smaller DeFi Exploits Keep Targeting Keys, Not Code
StrongBlock lost about $72,000 to a governance proposal that reassigned administrative control, while researchers published proofs of concept for an unvalidated-parameter injection on a token launchpad.