Morning Edition · Friday, September 11, 2026
Crypto
Senate Republicans Rewrite the Clarity Act's DeFi Rules Four Days Before a 60-Vote Test
The new draft tells the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Treasury to write registration rules for protocols that any person or group can control or materially alter, while three unresolved disputes still block the bill.
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Aztec Says a Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Proving System Could Let an Invalid Transaction Pass Verification
Core contributors found the defect on 27 July through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing, after internal and external human audits had already finished without catching it.
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One Cosmos EVM Flaw Drained Four Chains, and the Patch Shipped Without an Advisory
Attackers hit MANTRA, TAC, KiiChain and Nesa between 20 and 25 August using the same module defect that Cosmos Labs had received in April and fixed quietly.
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A 55-Character String Cut One XRP Wallet's Key Space to 2 to the 46th, and the Project Is Closing
XRP Healthcare is winding down after roughly $450,000 was swept from 4,011 accounts, while Trezor customers received phishing mail sent through the company's own breached email provider.
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India Puts Corporate Bonds on a Distributed Ledger and Settles Them in Wholesale Digital Rupees
REC, Larsen & Toubro and IIFL Finance have raised a combined 1,025 crore rupees (a crore equals 10 million) through the pilot, with the securities leg and the cash leg settling together.
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Miden Frames Confidential Stablecoins as the Core Product, Not a Privacy Feature
The team plans USDCx, a token backed one for one by USD Coin held in Circle's xReserve contracts, with balances hidden by default and selective disclosure to auditors.
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Coinbase Puts Stablecoin Rails Inside 1,000 Community Banks Through Moov
The deal gives small US lenders custodial wallets, settlement and real-time funding without building a crypto stack, while MoneyGram launched a Visa stablecoin card in Colombia.
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Bitcoin Trades Below $77,000 as Futures Price a September Federal Reserve Rate Increase
Fed funds futures put the odds of a quarter-point hike near 70 percent, the 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.35 percent, and Zcash gave back part of a monthly run.
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Nasdaq Buys Into Kraken's Parent at a $21 Billion Valuation as the SEC Moves on Share Records
The $100 million investment targets tokenization infrastructure, while a Securities and Exchange Commission proposal would remove the duplicate off-chain shareholder register that tokenized securities must currently maintain.
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Crypto Exchanges Are Selling Leveraged Bets on Private AI Companies, and Europe's Regulator Is Asking Who Authorized That
A Binance pre-listing contract implies a $2.1 trillion valuation for Anthropic using a share count that can change, while OKX offers up to 10x leverage on the same private names in Europe.
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Developers Reopen the Question of How Blocks Should Pay, on Both Bitcoin and Ethereum
Luke Dashjr floated either a one-month subsidy pause or a 4,375-block spending delay for miners, while an Ethereum researcher proposed turning the base fee from a floor into a midpoint.
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Strategy Says It Cut Net Debt by Almost $8 Billion and Wants Out of Its Junk Rating
The company's investor relations head points to dollar liquidity and reduced convertible debt as S&P Global's stated 12-month window for reconsidering the B- rating runs down.