Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Crypto
Attacker Mints About 4 Billion Harmony ONE Tokens, Sending the Token Down 26 Percent
Harmony says it is working with exchanges to freeze the proceeds and preparing a software fix, four years after a bridge compromise cost the network roughly $100 million.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Second Consecutive Critical Flaw in the Proving System Behind Its Privacy Network
Core contributors found the Alpha V5 defect on July 27 through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing, and validator re-execution, the fallback most rollups rely on, does not catch it.
Crypto
US Regulators Move to Write Crypto Rules Themselves After the Senate Leaves the Market-Structure Bill Unfinished
The Securities and Exchange Commission votes Friday on a tailored offering regime for crypto assets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission says it will proceed regardless, and the bank regulator has opened the charter door.
Crypto
Coreum Bridge Loses Nearly 200,000 XRP After Its Relayer Software Credited Fake Deposits
The attacker moved the bridge's own token between two wallets he controlled with a deposit label attached, then withdrew real XRP through the normal path over 97 minutes.
Crypto
Casa Says 233,000 Bitcoin Moved to New Storage After the Coldcard Firmware Flaw
Chief executive Nick Neuman puts the defensive migration at between ten and one hundred times the roughly 1,816 bitcoin the attackers took.
Crypto
Bitcoin Core Contributors Remove Luke Dashjr as Proposal Editor After His Data-Limit Fork Drew 2.53 Percent of Miners
The August 10 removal followed a mandatory signalling period in which the minority chain produced two blocks and stopped, and Dashjr says the contributors had no authority to remove him.
Geopolitics
Bank of Russia Names Bitcoin, Ether and Tether for Trading on Licensed Domestic Exchanges
Non-qualified investors would be capped at 300,000 rubles of purchases per year per intermediary and must pass a knowledge test, with public comment open until August 24.
Crypto
Miden Pitches Configurable Compliance as the Missing Piece of Private On-Chain Finance
The privacy-first network, spun out of Polygon Labs, keeps account state on the user's device and is building recovery, multisignature and policy controls on top of it ahead of a mainnet planned for this year.
Crypto
Blockstream Launches Atomic Swaps Days After Boltz Shut Down, Citing Automated Attacks
Boltz suspended all swap services on August 3, saying attackers using artificial-intelligence tooling were finding bugs faster than a team its size could patch them.
Markets
Strategy Holds a $4.6 Billion Cash Buffer and Says It Will Resume Bitcoin Purchases This Year
The reserve covers close to three years of dollar obligations, which is what keeps any bitcoin sales voluntary rather than forced.
Markets
Nasdaq Buys an Off-Exchange Venue and Brazil's Largest Bank Tests Tokenized Bonds
Nasdaq will fold LeveL Markets into its Digital Liquidity Networks unit, while Itaú Unibanco pilots tokenized bonds and funds under a programme run by Brazil's capital-markets association.
Crypto
Bitcoin Trades Near $63,700 Before Wednesday's Inflation Report as a Small Spot Fund Winds Down
Dogecoin and BNB gained while bitcoin was the only major asset lower on both the day and the week, and Hashdex will stop trading its bitcoin fund after the August 17 close.