Morning Edition · Monday, August 10, 2026
Crypto
A Build Flag Checked the Wrong Way Left Five Years of Coldcard Seeds Guessable, and Thieves Found It First
Galaxy Research has confirmed 1,719 bitcoin, roughly $111 million, taken from wallets whose keys were generated by a deterministic software routine instead of the chip's hardware randomness.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Second Critical Proving-System Flaw, This Time in Its Live Alpha V5 Privacy Network
Core contributors say an internal audit assisted by artificial intelligence found that an attacker could build a proof the verifier accepts for a transaction the network should reject.
Crypto
Bitcoin's BIP-110 Fork Mined Two Blocks and Then Stopped
The breakaway chain inherited Bitcoin's full mining difficulty with almost no hashpower behind it, and now sits about 111 blocks behind while both chains still accept the same transactions.
Crypto
Rekt's Half-Year Review Puts DeFi Losses at $939.86 Million and Locates the Failures in Signers, Not Contract Code
Across 135 incidents verified by Rekt, the largest drains ran through validator signatures, oracle verifiers and governance votes that behaved exactly as designed.
Crypto
Ostium Lost $23.75 Million Through a Price Forwarder It Had Placed Outside Its Own Bug Bounty Scope
The attacker fed the vault a fake $60,000 bitcoin quote, and 10,540 of the 12,084 ether in proceeds entered Tornado Cash before the day ended.
Crypto
NYSE Says It Is Advancing On-Chain Settlement for Tokenized Securities
President Lynn Martin says the exchange is moving toward fully on-chain solutions, after it joined the Depository Trust Company's pilot in July, with tokenized shares keeping the same ticker, identifier and settlement cycle as the originals.
Crypto
The Senate Left the CLARITY Act Off Its Schedule While Brussels Reopens MiCA
American digital-asset rules now depend on agency discretion until at least mid-September, and the European Commission's review of its own crypto regime is taking comments until 30 September.
Crypto
Hyperliquid's Revenue Has Fallen for Four Straight Quarters While Its Open Interest Rose
A fee-sharing arrangement now routes about half the platform's volume through outside builders, diverting the revenue that funds buybacks of the HYPE token.
Crypto
Miden Pitches Private On-Chain Finance With Recovery, Multisignature Security and Configurable Compliance
The design keeps user state and execution on the user's own device, then asks whether institutions will accept privacy they cannot audit without an added compliance layer.
Crypto
Grayscale Withdrew Three Altcoin ETF Registrations in 190 Seconds
The Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot filings were pulled without a stated reason, and Canary's XRP fund lost $81.6 million in net assets even as investors added $82 million to it.
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More Than 100 Crypto Projects Have Folded This Year, and Exchanges Are Clearing the Listings Behind Them
Kraken will liquidate 21 tokens after a 27 August withdrawal deadline, while listed shells keep issuing equity against no revenue.
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Bitcoin Trades Above $65,000 as Spot Funds Take In $853 Million Before US Inflation Data
BlackRock's IBIT claimed most of the weekly inflow, with bitcoin, ether and BNB each up close to 3 percent on the week.