Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026
Crypto
Solana Validators Approve Doubling the Disinflation Rate, Cutting About 18.9 Million SOL From Future Issuance
The proposal cleared its two-thirds threshold with 67.0% support on 60.7% turnout after Kraken and Galaxy-linked validators switched sides in the final hours.
Crypto
Cosmos Labs Says a Flaw It Rated Low in March Was Used to Steal Nearly $6 Million Across Six Chains
The bug let a token transfer execute while the ledger recorded no movement, allowing the same balance to be spent more than once, and MANTRA says none of the stolen tokens have been recovered.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Critical Proving-System Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Privacy Network
Core contributors found the defect through internal AI-assisted review, and it is the second consecutive Aztec release whose proving system carried a fund-threatening bug.
Crypto
Ripple Sets a Post-Quantum Path for the XRP Ledger as Ethereum Researchers Propose Rebuilding ecrecover
An Anthropic model reduced the work needed to break a leading post-quantum signature candidate by a factor of 67 million last month, and Bitcoin and Ethereum both published migration plans this week.
Macro
Warsh Says the Fed Has 'Work to Do' on Inflation and Traders Move to Price a September Increase
Odds of a quarter-point rise at the September meeting jumped to roughly 60% from 35.4% a day earlier, and Bitcoin gave back part of a rally that followed about $3 billion of exchange-traded fund inflows.
Crypto
Miden Will Issue a Private USDC-Backed Stablecoin Using Circle's xReserve Infrastructure
USDCx transactions will be confidential by default while letting holders prove balances and provenance selectively to auditors, regulators and counterparties.
Crypto
Core Lightning Ships a Security Release and Withholds the Patches for Two Weeks
The fixes answer three weeks of vulnerability reports produced by a wave of AI-assisted review across open-source Bitcoin projects, and developers say no fund losses have been confirmed.
Crypto
Attacker Registers as an Administrator on Avici and Withdraws More Than $1 Million From Solana Card Users
Both of the platform's programs shared a single upgrade key rather than a multisignature setup, and the team acknowledged the theft nearly two hours after the first withdrawal.
Crypto
Ethena Extends the USDe Basis Trade Into Equity Perpetuals as Crypto Funding Yields Shrink
The issuer expects perpetual futures on real-world assets to overtake crypto derivatives in USDe's backing within 12 to 24 months, after supply fell from nearly $15 billion to about $4 billion.
Crypto
Ninth Circuit Rules Nevada Can Regulate Kalshi's Sports Event Contracts as Gambling
The unanimous panel found that the Commodity Exchange Act does not preempt state gambling law, creating a split with the Third Circuit that points toward the Supreme Court.
Crypto
Capital B Raises €21 Million With Warrants That Could Cut Its Bitcoin-Per-Share Ratio by About 24%
Adam Back and TOBAM joined the placement, which would fund roughly 270 additional Bitcoin, while a separate company that sold all its holdings to repay debt now targets an $827 million rebuild.
Crypto
Bullish Lends USD.AI $100 Million in Stablecoins to Finance Loans Secured by AI Chips
The facility funds non-recourse loans against graphics processing units, settled on-chain, and the exchange plans to list the resulting yield token to create a secondary market in the debt.