Morning Edition · Friday, August 14, 2026
Crypto
Aztec Says a Flaw in Its Proving System Puts Funds on Its Live Privacy Network at Risk
Core contributors found the defect through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing, and say the validator committee's public re-execution cannot catch it.
Crypto
Ethereum Foundation Abandons Poseidon for Conventional Hashes in Its Post-Quantum Plan
Justin Drake says better proof systems made SHA and BLAKE fast enough, ending an eight-year research effort and reshaping the design assumptions of the zero-knowledge industry.
Crypto
SEC Postpones Its First Major Crypto Rule and Delays the Tokenization Exemption Again
The open meeting to propose Reg Crypto was cancelled with no new date, and the innovation exemption is caught in negotiations over the market-structure bill's tokenization section.
Crypto
Tether Says KPMG Completed the First Full Audit of the Company Behind USDT
The auditor issued an unqualified opinion on 2025 financial statements showing reserves exceeding liabilities by 6.81 billion dollars, and physically inspected the issuer's gold.
Crypto
Trezor Warns 14,000 Customers After a Shipping Partner Was Breached
Home addresses of hardware-wallet buyers were exposed for the first time, two weeks after an entropy flaw in a rival device was linked to a large bitcoin theft.
Crypto
Bitcoin Red Team Logs 7,958 Findings After Running a Chinese AI Model Across 501 Projects
Developers report that open-weight Chinese models outperform restricted American frontier systems on defensive security work, and maintainers now face the validation backlog.
Crypto
Coinbase and 14 Other x402 Payment Services Failed a Security Test Built for Machine Payments
Researchers found 31 vulnerabilities including six validated exploit paths, in a payment standard being promoted as the settlement layer for autonomous software agents.
Crypto
MSCI Revives a Screen That Could Remove Strategy and Metaplanet From Global Indexes in November
The proposal arrives as digital-asset treasury companies pledge growing shares of their coins as loan collateral and early backers exit.
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Bitcoin Falls Below 63,000 Dollars While Institutional Buyers Keep Adding Through Funds
UBS increased its holding in BlackRock's bitcoin fund and Morgan Stanley's trust took in 371 million dollars of share contributions, even as analysts question the million-dollar forecasts.
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SharpLink Routes a 200 Million Dollar Ethereum Stake Through Lido as Researchers Propose Native Delegation
A treasury company will hold wrapped staked ether at Anchorage Digital while an Ethereum research proposal argues the protocol should offer delegation directly rather than through intermediaries.
Crypto
Miden Pitches Configurable Compliance as the Condition for Private Blockchain Finance
The privacy network argues that account recovery, multisignature security and selective disclosure must ship together with confidentiality, or institutions will not use it.
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JPMorgan Cut Off Polymarket's Banking in Late 2025 While Weighing an Underwriting Role
The prediction-market operator lost its account over regulatory concerns, and its executives are among those the White House will host next week.