Morning Edition · Monday, September 21, 2026
Crypto
Aztec Says an Attacker Could Forge Valid Proofs on Its Privacy Network, Puts V5 Funds at Risk
Core contributors found the soundness defect through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing on 27 July 2026 and will only fix it in the next release, V6.
Crypto
Liquid Network Stays Paused With 598 Bitcoin Unreturned After Software Approved an Unbacked Withdrawal
Eleven of the federation's fifteen keys signed the peg-out that removed about 4,000 of 4,200 bitcoin, so no key was stolen and no contract was tricked.
Crypto
Goldman Sachs and Citizens Name Coinbase and Circle as First Beneficiaries of the SEC's Tokenized-Stock Exemption
The five-year relief that took effect on 17 September creates a new venue category and requires tokenized shares to carry real dividends and voting rights.
Crypto
Saylor Calls the Clarity Act's Failure a Win as Crypto Rules Revert to Agency Discretion
The Senate cloture vote fell 50 to 49 on 15 September, ten short of the 60 needed, and Coinbase's policy chief says market-structure work in the chamber is finished for 2026.
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Osmosis Took 74 Days to Notice Its Bitcoin Token Was 36 Percent Unbacked
A flaw in Nomic's forwarding logic minted 40.65 unbacked nBTC, and four other incidents disclosed this weekend trace to the same pattern of trusted inputs accepted without verification.
Crypto
Solana Cut Slot Times to 250 Milliseconds, Shrinking Every Validator's Leader Window to One Second
The third stage of SIMD-0525 activated at epoch 1037 on 18 September, and the remaining step to 200 milliseconds has no mainnet date.
Crypto
Miden Launches a Private Finance Stack and a Self-Custodial Wallet That Proves Transactions on the User's Device
The PriFi stack covers identity, custody, banking, compliance, real-world assets and settlement, with amounts and counterparties kept off the public ledger.
Crypto
Brussels Opens the Question of Regulating Staking, With Responses Due 30 September
Item 66 on page 36 of the European Commission's MiCA review asks whether Europe's treatment of staking is adequate and what requirements should apply to firms offering it.
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Cardano's Delegated Voters Rejected a 12.29 Million ADA Request From Input Output, and Hoskinson Dropped the Cardano-First Policy
Delegated representatives voted 64.33 percent against even though the Constitutional Committee recorded unanimous approval.
Crypto
Apple and Google Are Hiring for Stablecoin and Tokenized-Deposit Roles Without Announcing Any Product
Apple's Apple Pay strategy posting names stablecoins and blockchain, and Google is recruiting a Web3 chief architect in Hong Kong for its cloud business.
Crypto
Polymarket's Processor Rejected More Than 80 Percent of Deposits at the Peak of a $10 Million Card-Fraud Attempt
The Wall Street Journal reports the chief executive told compliance staff to keep growing, while Kalshi separately denies that its crypto volume is inflated.
Crypto
Bitcoin Closed the Week at $81,159, Its First Weekly Close Above the 50-Week Average in 45 Weeks
Galaxy Research's Alex Thorn notes the same signal coincided with the market low in four of five completed bear markets, while dated futures volume sits about 97 percent below its 2021 level.