Morning Edition · Sunday, September 13, 2026
Crypto
Aztec Says a Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Proving System Can Validate Transactions the Network Should Reject
Core contributors found the defect on 27 July through internal AI-assisted auditing, cannot rule out prior exploitation, and have scheduled the fix for the next network version.
Crypto
Blockstream Demands the 598 Bitcoin Liquid Attackers Kept as a Self-Declared Finder's Fee
The group returned 3,400 of about 4,000 bitcoin taken from the sidechain's federation wallet, keeping exactly 15 percent and worth roughly $47 million.
Crypto
Miden Sets Out a Private-by-Default Finance Stack Around a Circle-Backed Stablecoin
USDCx will be issued natively on Miden against USDC held in reserve contracts that Circle deploys and operates directly, with no third-party bridge in the path.
Crypto
A Deprecated ether.fi Contract Drained Eleven Wallets Through a Missing Caller Check
The loss was about 15.45 ether, roughly $38,000, and researchers published a working proof of concept a day later as the year's exploit total passed $1.3 billion.
Crypto
Revolut Handed Passports and Full Bitcoin Histories to an Attacker Posing as a Government Agency
No customer funds were taken, and no system was breached, because the bank processed the fraudulent request through its normal legal channel.
Macro
Rate Traders Put 85 Percent Odds on a September Hike as Bitcoin Holds Below $80,000
Gasoline drove most of August's headline inflation jump, but faster monthly core inflation kept the case for tightening alive ahead of Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision.
Crypto
Thailand Proposes Barring Stablecoin Withdrawals to Anyone but the Customer's Own Verified Wallet
The draft also caps transfers at five million baht a day, about $151,000, and the regulator cited growth in Tether volume as part of its reasoning.
Crypto
Britain Gives Crypto Firms Five Months to Apply as European Banks Move on Custody
The Financial Conduct Authority window runs from 30 September to 28 February, and UniCredit is reported to be preparing a digital-asset custody service.
Crypto
Ripple's Stablecoin Chief Puts a $13 Trillion Corporate Treasury Number on a $2.4 Billion Token
Jack McDonald says payments and capital markets are driving RLUSD growth as Ripple prepares to bring the token into Europe under the bloc's crypto rules.
Crypto
The Paper Trail Behind a Hardware Wallet Undermines the Privacy the Device Promises
Buying a self-custody device requires giving a company a name and a delivery address, creating a record that links a person to the fact that they hold keys.
Tech
The Bank for International Settlements Says AI Can Cut a Bank's Patching Window to Minutes
The paper lands the same week Aztec credited AI-assisted auditing with finding a critical flaw in its own proving system, and the same week three frontier AI chief executives called for slowing development.
World
Two Crypto Billionaires Gave Reform UK £72 Million in a Weekend and the Metropolitan Police Opened an Inquiry
Ben Delo of BitMEX and investor Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and reporting describes the combined sum as exceeding all British party donations recorded in 2025.