Morning Edition · Monday, September 14, 2026
Crypto
Senate Republicans Release Final Clarity Act Text With Ethics Language Trump Accepted
The procedural vote set for Tuesday needs 60 senators, and with 53 Republican seats the bill requires at least seven Democrats to advance.
Macro
Goldman Sachs Now Expects a Quarter-Point Fed Increase as Oil Adds a Second Inflation Impulse
August consumer inflation held at 3.4% annually, futures put the odds of a hike at 87%, and Brent crude rose 3.1% to $107.87 after Saudi Arabia shut its main pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Proving-System Flaw That Let an Invalid Transaction Pass Verification
The privacy network says its own contributors found the defect through internal AI-assisted review, and that validator re-execution, the fallback most rollups rely on, does not catch this class of bug.
Crypto
Symbiosis Bridge Attacker Minted 46 Billion Fake Bitcoin Tokens and Realized About $336,000
The protocol recovered roughly 15 BTC into a team multisig, offered a 20% white-hat bounty that expired on September 13, and has not yet set compensation terms for liquidity providers.
Crypto
Audited DeFi Protocols Lost $885 Million to Attack Paths Their Audits Never Covered
Of 68 first-half incidents with a public pre-incident audit, researchers classified 46 attack paths as entirely outside the reviewed scope, accounting for 94.4% of losses in that group.
Crypto
One Shared Cosmos Library Bug Drained Four Chains, and Bots Are Now Probing Bitcoin Payment Servers
A defect in the shared Cosmos EVM module let attackers inflate balances on Nesa, KiiChain, TAC and MANTRA, while BTCPay Server released version 2.4.4 to close an administrative path bots are actively scanning for.
Crypto
Coinbase, Nu and Circle Move to Own the Plumbing Between Banks and Stablecoins
Circle paid $400 million for Tazapay's emerging-market payment links, Nu entered United States banking through Lead Bank with an interest-bearing USDC account, and Coinbase is supplying the rails while community banks keep the customer.
Crypto
Miden Puts a Private USDC-Backed Stablecoin at the Center of Its Network Launch
USDCx will be issued natively through Circle's xReserve contracts rather than a third-party bridge, with transactions private by default and selective disclosure to auditors and counterparties.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Publish a Machine-Checked Implementation of the Consensus Layer's Data Format
SizzLean proves roundtrip, non-malleability and size-bound properties for the serialization format across every type the consensus protocol uses, and passes the upstream conformance tests.
Crypto
Ledger Users Still Cannot Move ATOM Six Days After the Cosmos Hub Stalled
The network stopped producing blocks at 18:12 UTC on September 8 and has recovered, but Ledger's service path for account data and transactions has not, with no cause or restoration estimate disclosed.
Crypto
MIT's Muriel Médard Argues Blockchains Can Be Quantum-Safe Without Quantum Hardware
Her proposal splits data into coded equations and encrypts roughly one in ten of them, which she says protects the whole payload while cutting the computational burden by about 90%.
Crypto
A New Device Generates Bitcoin Seed Phrases From Radioactive Decay, With No Published Validation
Entropy32 Plus produces offline keys from a physical randomness source, but its entropy output has not been independently tested or audited.