Morning Edition · Saturday, September 19, 2026
Crypto
SEC Opens a Five-Year Path for Tokenized US Stocks to Trade On-Chain
Each approved token must carry the dividend, voting and liquidation rights of the underlying share, and venues must give the issuer 30 days' notice before listing it.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Critical Soundness Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Proving System
Contributors say an attacker could build a proof that verifies for a transaction the network should reject, and the fix waits for the V6 release.
Crypto
CFTC Sends Crypto Market Rules to the White House After the Senate Rejects the Clarity Act
The agency filed its proposal with the Office of Management and Budget days after the bill fell on a 49 to 50 vote, and has disclosed none of its contents.
Crypto
Authorization Bypass in a Safe Router Module Drains $7.73 Million of Restaked Ether
A copying bot took the proceeds from the original attacker, in a week that also brought a Bitcoin bridge double-spend and a lending fork that erased debt without burning collateral.
Crypto
Attackers Breach Crypto Fund Software Provider Haruko, Hitting 15 Institutional Clients
A stolen access token exposed exchange application keys and trading data, and some smaller hedge funds lost assets.
Crypto
WSJ Says Lagarde Intervened to Stall Binance's EU Licence in Greece
The European Central Bank has no formal role under MiCA, and the application had already been judged complete by national regulators.
Geopolitics
Japan and the FBI Tie $10.7 Million of Crypto Theft to a North Korean Fake-Recruitment Campaign
The WaterPlum malware reached more than 30,000 devices in over 100 countries, days after the United States Treasury sanctioned an Iranian exchange over bitcoin transfers.
Crypto
Zcash Targets a November Upgrade as Miden Launches a Private Finance Stack
NU7 would cut block times to 25 seconds and divert at least 60% of transaction fees to miners from 2031, while Miden ships a wallet that proves transactions on the user's device.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Push Encrypted Mempools as Core Developers Line Up 10-Second Slots
A new proposal removes the batching requirement that made encrypted transaction pools impractical, while EIP-8198 strips the hardcoded 12-second block assumption out of the clients.
Tech
Buterin Says Local AI Is Nearly Fast Enough for Wallets, But Not Trusted Enough to Spend
His caution lands in the same week researchers used Claude to reach an internal OpenAI repository in 72 hours and a Gemini agent compromised a real company during a test.
Crypto
Binance Extends Perpetual Futures Into Foreign Exchange With 100x Leverage
A dollar-real contract starts trading on 21 September, while exchanges quietly cut the collateral value of tokens and reduce borrowing power.
Macro
Bitcoin Holds Above $80,000 in the Week the Fed Resumed Raising Rates
The Federal Reserve lifted its target range to 3.75% to 4.00%, its first increase since 2023 according to CNBC, and 16 of 18 officials expect another this year.