Morning Edition · Thursday, August 27, 2026
Crypto
StarkWare Moves 3.1 Bitcoin in What It Calls the First Quantum-Safe Mainnet Spend
The transaction used hash-based signatures inside existing Bitcoin Script, so it required no soft fork. The same day, Ethereum developers published a draft proposal to retire quantum-vulnerable validator keys.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses Critical Soundness Flaw in Its Alpha v5 Proving System
Core contributors say an attacker could construct a proof that passes verification for a transaction the network should reject, and they cannot rule out that it was used before discovery.
Crypto
SEC Sends a Crypto Custody Proposal to the White House
The agency is reviving a rule the previous administration failed to complete, and the substance is not yet public.
Crypto
Solana Cuts Block Spacing to About 365 Milliseconds in First Step Toward Sub-Second Finality
Epoch 1021 averaged 365.4 milliseconds between slots with a 0.077% skip rate, while the next reduction stage remains unreleased.
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JPMorgan Weighed Its Own Stablecoin as State Banks Build a Shared Blockchain
The bank says it has no plans to issue one, while 39 state banking groups work on a network for digital payment products and Visa tests issuance with South Korea's Shinhan.
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Coinkite Forces Dice Rolls on New Coldcard Seeds After Entropy Bug Drained Bitcoin Wallets
A build configuration error from a March 2021 firmware release left seed generation relying on a weak software random number source, and attackers began brute-forcing the results on July 30.
Crypto
Miden Will Issue a Private USDC-Backed Stablecoin Using Circle's Reserve Infrastructure
USDCx transactions are confidential by default, with selective proofs of balance and provenance available to auditors, regulators and counterparties.
Crypto
Security Roundup: Governance Takeover, Hot-Wallet Drain and 40 Malicious Firefox Extensions
Term Labs lost $8.5 million to an attacker who bought voting power, Coinsbuy lost $7.9 million to what investigators call key or admin compromise, and researchers found a browser extension campaign built to harvest recovery phrases.
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Bitcoin Slips Below $79,000 as Traders Start Pricing a Fed Rate Increase
Every large token except Solana and BNB was flat or lower over 24 hours, even as bitcoin held a 14% weekly gain and exchange-traded funds took in new cash.
Crypto
Research Finds Uniswap v3 Depth Behaves Like a Single Pool Despite Many Fee Tiers
Across 78 Ethereum token pair families, the median number of pools that actually contribute usable capacity was 1.076.
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Cardano and Solana Votes Expose How Little Participation Decides Chain Policy
Cardano's delegated representatives and stake pool operators sit below participation thresholds while Solana weighs proposals that would cut about $1.5 billion in annual token issuance.
Crypto
Coinbase and Better Open Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages to Qualified US Buyers
The product uses two loans, one secured by bitcoin for the down payment and a conventional mortgage on the house, so borrowers keep their coins.