Morning Edition · Saturday, September 12, 2026
Crypto
Blockstream Refuses 10% Bounty for 598 Bitcoin Still Held After Liquid Sidechain Drain
The company says it will involve law enforcement and exchanges instead of paying. Liquid bitcoin has resumed trading with on-chain reserves covering 85.15% of supply.
Macro
Core US Inflation Beat Forecasts in August, Pushing Traders Toward a Fed Rate Increase
Core consumer prices rose 0.3% against a 0.2% forecast, and odds of a hike at next week's meeting moved to about 90% from 70%, according to CME FedWatch.
Tech
Aztec Discloses Soundness Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Proving System, With the Fix Deferred to V6
Contributors found through internal AI-assisted auditing that an attacker could construct a proof the network would accept for a transaction it should reject.
Crypto
Exploit Reproductions Published for Moonwell and Ajna Show Losses Coming From Systems Working as Specified
The DeFiHackLabs archive added working proof-of-concept code for an $8.7 million oracle manipulation on Base and a $775,000 liquidation-accounting attack on Ethereum.
Crypto
Miden Packages Private Stablecoins and Selective Disclosure Into a Product It Calls the PriFi Stack
USDCx will be issued natively on Miden against USD Coin held in Circle's xReserve contracts, with private transfers and proofs users can show to auditors on demand.
Crypto
Liquid Staking Reaches $52.3 Billion While Total DeFi Value Sits Below $88 Billion
Staking derivatives now represent more locked capital than most chains combined, and Robinhood reported crypto volume of $17.5 billion in August, up 61% from July.
Markets
Robinhood's Chief Executive Says Companies Should Not Hold a Veto Over Tokens Tracking Their Shares
The dispute with AMC arrives as the Securities and Exchange Commission opens a 60-day rulemaking on blockchain-based shareholder registers and an Indian state drafts a plan to tokenize public infrastructure.
Crypto
UK Government Defeated as House of Lords Backs a Mandatory Digital Assets Strategy
Peers passed Amendment 88 by 194 votes to 138, which would require the Treasury to publish and consult on a crypto strategy within 12 months of the bill becoming law.
Crypto
Revised Crypto Clarity Act Circulates Days Before a Senate Procedural Vote, and Coinbase Says It Has an Alternative
Senator Lummis added derivatives-regulator registration and anti-money-laundering duties for non-decentralized trading protocols, while the company's finance chief says it can work through agencies if the bill fails.
Crypto
US Bank Settles a Live Cross-Border Payment With Its Own Stablecoin on Stellar
The transfer moved between the bank's North American and European entities and tested minting, redemption and issuer freeze controls, with no external counterparties involved.
Crypto
Trezor Reports a Second Breach of a Marketing Platform as a $245 Million Theft Ringleader Pleads Guilty
Customer contact data taken from a third-party vendor fed phishing attacks, the same pattern that preceded a major bitcoin theft prosecuted in the United States.
Crypto
Metaplanet Cancels $220 Million of Executive Warrants After Finding Later Bitcoin Purchases Added Less Value Per Share
The Tokyo-listed treasury company cut its Series 10 reward pool by 41% to 188.2 million shares, tying management pay to value created per share rather than to coins accumulated.