Morning Edition · Sunday, September 6, 2026
Crypto
Aztec Says a Flaw in Its V5 Proving System Could Let an Invalid Transaction Pass Verification
Core contributors found the defect on 27 July through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing and now tell users to treat funds and applications on the privacy network as exposed until operators complete the required actions.
Crypto
Trezor Says a Shipping Partner Exposed 67,000 More Customer Records It Was Told Had Been Deleted
The newly identified records cover orders placed between November 2019 and August 2021, taking the publicly disclosed total to roughly 80,689 people who bought hardware wallets.
Crypto
A Faulty Pragma Price Feed Liquidated $3 Million of Collateral on Starknet in Two Minutes
Vesu says 47 borrowing positions were closed between 04:08 and 04:10 UTC on 4 September, and that its own contracts contained no bug.
Crypto
Researchers Publish Exploit Reproductions as Cosmos and Flow Losses Are Tallied
DeFiHackLabs has now catalogued 871 incidents, adding a proof of concept for an unbacked liquid-staking mint on Flow that led to a $9.3 million loss from a lending reserve.
Crypto
Zcash Trades Above $1,000 as Grayscale's Spot Fund Passes $400 Million in Assets
Most of the fund's growth since its 25 August listing has come from the price of the asset rather than from new money, with net inflows reported at about $34.4 million.
Crypto
Miden Builds Its Private Finance Pitch on a Circle-Issued Dollar Token
USDCx will be issued natively on Miden and backed one for one by USD Coin held in Circle's xReserve contracts, with balances private by default and disclosable to auditors on request.
Macro
Fed Staff Say the Same Dollar Behind a Stablecoin Can Be Counted Twice in the Money Supply
A Bank of Korea study published the same week finds that buying pressure in local-currency stablecoin pairs on Binance moves alongside depreciation of those currencies.
Crypto
Term Labs Lost $8.5 Million to a Voter, Not a Bug, as Compound Debates Emergency Powers
The attacker bought enough voting power to control four lending vaults and about 91% of an ether meta vault, then passed proposals instructing them to release funds.
Crypto
Solana Starts a Five-Step Cut That Would Reduce Account Deposits by 90%
The first gate took the storage constant down 9% on mainnet on 3 September, and the remaining steps wait for a client release expected in November.
Crypto
Robinhood's Chain Passed Solana in Daily Trading Volume, Driven by Memecoins Rather Than Stock Tokens
Decentralized exchange volume on the broker-operated network reached $1.595 billion on 1 September, while total value secured rose 46.2% over seven days to $2.96 billion.
Crypto
Router Protocol Will Close and Burn 303 Million Tokens After Four Years of Cross-Chain Work
The shutdown comes as Southeast Asian crypto funding rebounds to $680 million, concentrated in Singapore and a small number of mature companies.
Geopolitics
IMF Says El Salvador Added Bitcoin From Private Donations, Not Public Funds
The finding accompanies a staff-level agreement announced on 3 September that could release about $140 million, and no donor has been named or any amount disclosed.