Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Crypto
Cronos Stopped Producing Blocks After an Attacker Borrowed $75 Million From Tectonic
The attacker pushed a token with roughly $11,000 of daily volume up about 100-fold in 20 minutes, and only about $6 million left the network before validators froze the chain.
Crypto
Aztec Says an Internal AI-Assisted Review Found a Flaw That Could Make Invalid Proofs Verify
The privacy network is holding the fix for its next release, and separately cryptographers are publicly disputing whether the Poseidon hash family still meets its security target.
Crypto
Russia's Crypto Law Takes Effect, Confining Trading to a State Registry
Sberbank projects 4 trillion rubles ($46.4 billion) of regulated exchange volume in the first year, while retail buyers face a cap near $3,800 per licensed intermediary.
Geopolitics
Blockchain Data Ties Tens of Millions in Hyperliquid Trades to North Korean Wallets
Wallets attributed to the Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million of bitcoin on the venue in three weeks, as the platform weighs a United States presence.
Crypto
Miden Will Issue a Private USDC-Backed Stablecoin Through Circle's Reserve Infrastructure
Balances stay hidden by default with selective proof to auditors, arriving as stablecoins take 94% of Argentina's peso-denominated crypto volume.
Crypto
NYSE Owner ICE Takes a Stake in tZERO to Build a Tokenized Securities Market
The deal licenses tZERO's blockchain patents and adds transfer-agent and settlement infrastructure to an exchange group that already clears real equities.
Crypto
Strategy Split a $603 Million Share Sale Between Bitcoin and Propping Up Its Preferred Stock
One third of the week's equity raise went to buybacks and dividends on the STRC preferred, and the bitcoin it bought was purchased above the current market level.
Crypto
An Abandoned Balancer Pool Lost $234,000 to a Rounding Bug That Minted Tokens for One Satoshi
Term Labs separately lost about $8.5 million after near-zero voter turnout let a single wallet bypass its seven-day governance delay.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Map the Trade-Off in a Unified Gas Market as One Company Nears 5% of Ether
A new analysis of EIP-7999 examines where execution and data fee floors settle against each other, while Bitmine's holdings reach 5,901,112 ether.
Macro
Traders Raise the Odds of a September Rate Increase to 66% as Crypto Majors Slip
Bitcoin held above $78,000 and finished the week flat after August's 24% gain, while Citigroup and JPMorgan argue the data does not support a hike.
Crypto
Polymarket Seeks $1 Billion at a $21 Billion Valuation With Trump Jr.-Linked Fund Leading
1789 Capital is adding about $300 million to a roughly $200 million existing stake, days after rival Kalshi issued its first lifetime ban to a former member of Congress.
Crypto
Telegram Begins Rolling Out a Self-Custodial Wallet Toward More Than a Billion Users
Network validators approved a contract that can be upgraded without forcing holders to move funds, and OpenSea added Solana to its marketplace the same week.