Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Crypto
Twenty-One Banks and Asset Managers Plan a Joint Dollar Stablecoin for 2027
Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are among the group, which will target payments and digital-asset settlement first and a euro token after that.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Critical Flaw in the Proving System Securing Its Privacy Network
An attacker could construct a proof that passes verification for a transaction the network should reject, and the fix is scheduled for the next major version.
Tech
OpenAI Says Its Astra Model Can Find and Exploit Unknown Software Flaws Without Human Direction
The company classified Astra as its first model to cross the Critical cybersecurity threshold and is restricting the most advanced capability to a limited group of testers.
Crypto
United States Strikes Near the Strait of Hormuz Push Oil Above $90 and Drag Crypto Lower
Every large-cap token fell over 24 hours, with the higher-beta majors losing roughly three times what bitcoin did, while a firm dollar removed the usual offset.
Crypto
Miden Prepares a Private USDC-Backed Stablecoin Issued Through Circle's Reserve Contracts
USDCx will hide balances and counterparties by default while letting holders prove specific facts to auditors, with reserves held in contracts Circle deploys and operates itself.
Crypto
Rounding Error Mints 4,408 Pool Tokens for One Satoshi in $234,000 Balancer V1 Drain
A second exploit the same week took $28,000 from Float Protocol through a manipulated Uniswap V3 spot price, and both targeted code no team actively maintains.
Crypto
Tether Sued in New York Over a $42.4 Million Freeze Made Before Any Warrant
The complaint arrives the same week Britain's National Crime Agency froze more than £10 million tied to a payment from the fantasy-sports platform Sorare.
Crypto
SEC Proposes Letting Blockchains Serve as the Official Record of Share Ownership
The first substantive rewrite of transfer-agent rules since the early 1980s pairs with a 17 September roundtable on round-the-clock trading that includes NYSE, Nasdaq and DTCC.
Crypto
ARK and Glassnode Put Bitcoin's Control Threshold at Three Entities and Solana's at Nineteen
The same study prices a full node at $289 for Bitcoin and $21,478 for Solana, and finds nearly all Solana infrastructure sits inside commercial data centers.
Crypto
Robinhood Chain Collects $1.9 Million in a Day and Arbitrum's Token Rises 30 Percent
The network's disclosed fee split gives no clear route from that revenue to Robinhood's own accounts, and the chain still runs at the lowest maturity stage L2Beat assigns.
Crypto
Swiss Broker Pocket Bitcoin Says a Leak Linked 291 Customers' Names to Their Bitcoin Addresses
Exposed correspondence with partner banks combined identity documents, postal addresses and payment amounts, while a separate phishing campaign impersonating MetaMask targeted wallet users.
Crypto
Hyperliquid Strategies Doubles Its Share-Sale Facility to $2.5 Billion to Buy More HYPE
The expansion comes as Strategy fights an MSCI proposal that would remove bitcoin treasury companies from its main equity indexes.