Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Crypto
Senate Takes Up Crypto Market-Structure Bill Today With Banks and 17 State Attorneys General Opposed
Republicans need seven Democratic votes to clear the 60-vote threshold, and Senate Democrats sent a counteroffer hours before the 2:15 p.m. Eastern procedural vote.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Soundness Flaw That Let a Valid Proof Authorize an Invalid Transaction
Core contributors found the defect in the live Alpha V5 privacy network on 27 July using internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing, and the fix ships with V6.
Crypto
Circle Opens a Public Blockchain on Wednesday With BlackRock, Visa and DTCC Running the Validators
Arc uses USDC as its gas token and settles in under half a second, but the institutional validator set guarantees ledger operation, not user losses.
Crypto
Solana Raises Its Transaction Size Limit to 4,096 Bytes on Mainnet
The new transaction format took effect at the start of epoch 1035 early Tuesday and lets a zero-knowledge proof or a large multisignature approval fit in one atomic transaction.
Crypto
Ethereum and Base Abandon a Shared Wallet Standard and Will Ship Two Formats
Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said the effort to merge Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 8130 and EIP-8141 ended after Ethereum prioritized censorship resistance and Base prioritized scale and compliance.
Geopolitics
US Prosecutors Seek $61 Million Tied to Iranian Oil Sales Laundered Through Binance
The civil forfeiture complaint targets stablecoin proceeds the Department of Justice says funded Iran's military, and it does not require a criminal conviction.
Crypto
A Dormant Governance Contract, a Reentrancy Bug and Four Chained Flaws: Three Exploits Documented
An attacker bought and self-delegated 3.3% of Yam Finance's token supply to clear quorum alone, while two BNB Chain token contracts lost funds to classic reentrancy.
Crypto
Miden Says It Will Issue a Native Private Dollar Backed Through Circle's Reserve Programme
USDCx would let a Circle-backed stablecoin move with hidden amounts and counterparties, the first case of the largest regulated issuer supplying a confidential chain.
Crypto
Swiss Bitcoin Pay Takes Servers Offline After Intruder Reaches Customer Bank and Wallet Records
The Neuchâtel processor says no funds were lost because it never held keys, but exposed data includes bank account numbers, Bitcoin addresses and transaction histories.
Crypto
House Tax Writers Release a 114-Page Crypto Tax Package Ahead of Wednesday Markup
The bill addresses small-transaction exemptions that the industry has sought for years, though reporting differs on how fully it settles the taxation of mining and staking rewards.
Markets
Strategy Skips Another Bitcoin Purchase and Buys Back Its Own Stock as Yields Test 5%
Strive added to reach 25,000 Bitcoin and France's Capital B bought four more coins, while the largest corporate holder redirected cash to its share count before Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision.
Crypto
CoinEx Will Close After Nine Years, Citing Thinner Liquidity and Rising Compliance Costs
Spot trading ends 29 September and withdrawals close 22 December, on the same day Binance cut commodity perpetual futures to weekday hours.