Morning Edition · Monday, September 7, 2026
Crypto
Liquid Sidechain Halted After 4,000 Bitcoin Pegged Out Through an Inflation Bug
Blockstream says no keys were stolen. The federation's signing hardware approved the withdrawal because the software judged the counterfeit tokens valid.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses Critical Flaw in the Proving System Behind Its Alpha V5 Privacy Network
Contributors say an attacker could build a proof that verifies for a transaction the network should reject, and the fix is deferred to the next release.
Crypto
Miden Puts a Circle-Backed Dollar Behind Private Transfers With USDCx
The token is issued natively on Miden against USDC held in Circle's xReserve contracts, with balances hidden by default and disclosure made selective.
Crypto
One Cosmos Underflow Bug Drained Three Chains as DeFi Losses Near $1.3 Billion for the Year
MANTRA, TAC and KiiChain lost a combined $20.8 million to the same replay defect, while Term Labs lost $8.5 million to an attacker who bought its governance for about $951.
Crypto
Aave Votes to Give Risk Stewards Powers That Can Freeze Markets but Not Restart Them
The emergency functions cannot even be called by the current software release, so the vote assigns authority now for a version that does not yet exist.
Crypto
Ethereum Developers Extend EIP-8141 Frames to Carry Expiry, Aggregation and Privacy Proofs
The scheduled transaction type splits one transaction into as many as 64 programmable parts, letting contracts add features that previously required changing the transaction format itself.
Crypto
Buterin Rejects Forecast That Artificial Intelligence Will Halve Bitcoin's Price
The Ethereum co-founder puts the probability that artificial intelligence (AI) fundamentally compromises proof-of-work security at the far end of the range, and points to machine-assisted formal verification as the defensive counterpart.
Crypto
Lummis Says US Crypto Market-Structure Law Waits Until 2030 If the Clarity Act Fails Now
A Senate cloture vote is expected on Sept. 15, while a separate fight over prediction markets moves toward the Supreme Court.
Geopolitics
Crypto Volume Across the Middle East and North Africa Triples to an Estimated $350 Billion
Saudi Arabia posted the fastest growth in the region at 154 percent while maintaining an outright ban on cryptocurrency.
Crypto
Better and Coinbase Can Reuse the Bitcoin Pledged Against Their Mortgages
Borrowers cannot recover the collateral until the conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced, as exchange-traded fund inflows fell 76 percent into the Labor Day break.
Macro
Bitcoin Slips as US Strikes on Iranian Tankers Lift Oil and Treasury Buybacks Expand
The conflict is being priced in energy while crypto tracks funding conditions, with the Treasury doubling the cap on long-dated bond buybacks starting Sept. 9.
Crypto
Leverage Moves Out of Bitcoin as Altcoin Perpetual Open Interest Overtakes It
Zcash futures positioning of roughly $2.3 billion drove the shift, the first since December 2024, after the privacy token traded above $1,000.