Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Crypto
Senate Blocks CLARITY Act 50-49, Leaving US Crypto Rules to Agency Discretion
The market-structure bill collapsed over ethics language covering federal officials' crypto holdings, not over the regulatory framework the industry wanted, and three Republicans voted against opening debate.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses Critical Proving-System Flaw That Could Validate Invalid Transactions
Core contributors found the defect through internal AI-assisted auditing and told users to treat funds, applications and contract state on the Alpha V5 network as exposed until operators complete the required network actions.
Crypto
One Hosting Provider's Routing Error Took 29% of Solana's Stake Offline
Telemetry reviewed after the incident shows the network reached about 86 percent of the level at which block finality stops, and a single provider hosts more than a quarter of all staked SOL.
Crypto
Crypto Longs Lose $570 Million as Bill Fails and Traders Price a Fed Hike
Bitcoin traded near $76,000 and XRP fell about 10 percent, with the Federal Reserve's rate decision due at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday and futures markets split on whether it raises.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Converge on Recursive STARKs as the Post-Quantum Migration Path
Two new Ethereum Research posts argue that quantum-resistant signatures are too large and too expensive to verify one by one, and that aggregating them off-chain into a single proof is the practical route.
Crypto
Governance Quorums and Spot-Price Oracles Drive the Latest Wave of DeFi Losses
New exploit reproductions published this week cover a dormant DAO takeover for roughly $337,000, a Uniswap V4 hook that valued collateral at unbounded spot price, and a refund-before-sell reentrancy bug.
Crypto
Miden Ships a Private-Finance Stack and a Wallet That Proves Transactions on the User's Device
The PriFi stack covers identity, custody, compliance and settlement, and the accompanying Bread wallet keeps account state on the device while the chain sees only a commitment.
Crypto
US Prosecutors Charge Two Robinhood Engineers Over Perpetual Futures Trades on Hyperliquid
The Department of Justice says the pair traded ahead of Robinhood Crypto listing announcements between 2025 and 2026, each allegedly profiting more than $50,000.
Geopolitics
US Forfeiture Case Ties $61 Million in Frozen Tron Addresses to an Iranian Oil Network
The September 14 complaint targets ten addresses frozen in 2025, describes a $1.5 billion sanctions-evasion network moving funds through Binance accounts, and sets out a planned transfer into FBI custody.
Macro
Bank of England Official Says Stablecoin Growth Adds Treasury Demand and Redemption Risk
Dollar stablecoins in circulation now stand at about $310.66 billion, and Tether alone accounts for $183.27 billion of that total.
Crypto
BIS Researchers Find Bitcoin On-Chain Transfer Estimates Vary Sixfold by Method
The same ledger produces wildly different activity figures depending on how analysts handle change outputs and self-transfers, and the study finds separate measurement gaps for Ethereum and stablecoins.
Crypto
BitBox Adds a Lightning Wallet That Reuses the Existing Hardware Backup
The self-custodial hot wallet derives from the user's existing recovery phrase, separating spending balances from cold storage without adding a second set of keys to protect.