Morning Edition · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Crypto
Aztec Says an Attacker Could Forge Valid Proofs on Its Live Privacy Network
Core contributors found the flaw on 27 July through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing, cannot rule out prior exploitation, and have deferred the fix to the next version of the protocol.
Crypto
Senate Sets a 15 September Procedural Vote on the Clarity Act as Bessent Presses for Passage
Republicans hold 53 seats and need 60 to advance the bill, while Coinbase's Brian Armstrong argues the industry gets regulatory clarity either way.
Macro
Treasury's $6 Billion Buyback Meets Bitcoin at $78,000 and the Highest Treasury Yields Since Late 2023
Long-term bitcoin holders cut profit-taking to a one-month low even as rising Japanese government bond yields threaten the flow of Japanese savings into US debt.
Crypto
US Sanctions Xinbi Guarantee, Restrains $52 Million and Seizes Its Telegram Channels
Tether separately froze $39.3 million of USDT across ten Tron addresses tied to the marketplace, and blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs doubled its valuation to $2 billion.
Crypto
One Unflagged Cosmos Patch Preceded Four Chain Drains and a Wave of New Exploit Reproductions
An underflow in the Cosmos EVM staking precompile, combined with two undisclosed defects, let attackers strip treasuries from MANTRA, TAC, KiiChain and Nesa, with KiiChain alone losing roughly $9.7 million.
Crypto
Trezor Says Attackers Breached Its Email Provider and Sent Phishing From Its Own Domain
The fake message warned of an invented hardware flaw in the STM32 chips inside Trezor devices, and Blockstream issued a separate warning about unsolicited messages the same week.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Model a Jump From 60 Million to 200 Million Gas, and a Base Fee That Is No Longer a Floor
Two proposals published this week question whether more capacity lowers fees, and whether senders should be allowed to bid below the base fee in exchange for later inclusion.
Crypto
Consensys Splits MetaMask Into Its Own Company With Joe Lubin as Chairman and Chief Executive
The existing corporate entity will take the MetaMask name, while protocol and institutional infrastructure move to a separate business, and the company declined to discuss a public listing.
Crypto
Miden Pitches Private Finance With a USDC-Backed Token as Ethereum Coalition Pushes to Encrypt the Mempool
Miden will issue USDCx through Circle's xReserve with transactions private by default and selective disclosure to auditors, while a separate coalition presses for encrypted transactions before inclusion.
Crypto
Bitcoin and Ethereum Migration Plans Converge With Quantum Hardware on a 2029 Window
The United States is backing a $300 million hardware effort, and custody providers are already selling insured multi-signature vaults against a threat that has not yet materialised.
Crypto
Fidelity Expands Its Dollar Token as Tether Moves Into Private Credit and Block Seeks a Bank Charter
Stablecoin supply stands at $310.96 billion with euro-denominated tokens under 1 percent of it, according to DeFiLlama and CoinDesk research.
Crypto
Robinhood's Tenev Says Companies Have No Veto Over Tokens Referencing Their Shares
The dispute with AMC's chief executive escalated as Pump.fun added stock pairs on-chain and value secured on Robinhood Chain rose 11.6 percent in a week.