Morning Edition · Thursday, September 24, 2026
Crypto
Blockstream Traces the $320 Million Liquid Theft to a Proof-Verification Cache in Its Own Node Software
Nearly 4,000 unbacked Liquid bitcoin were minted and 3,996 bitcoin were withdrawn in a single block. About 598 bitcoin remain with an attacker who calls himself a security researcher.
Macro
Washington Weighs Joint Ventures to Spread Dollar Stablecoins Overseas
Treasury, the State Department and the Development Finance Corporation could support private issuers abroad, adding buyers for the Treasury bills that stablecoin reserves already hold at close to $200 billion.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Proving Flaw That Could Let Invalid Transactions Pass Verification
Core contributors found the defect through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing, cannot rule out earlier exploitation, and have deferred the fix to the next network version.
Crypto
StarkWare Says a Week of AI-Assisted Coding Cut a Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Estimate to $66 From $320
A contest run with Yukon Research and Eigen Labs accepted 62 improvements, though the cheaper code has not yet produced another transaction mined on Bitcoin.
Crypto
Oracle Manipulation and Unbacked Mints Pushed September Decentralized Finance Losses Above $326 Million
Nostra lost $3.5 million on Starknet after an attacker inflated its token roughly 8,000-fold, and Cronos rolled back 10,961 blocks to undo a $120 million borrow against manipulated collateral.
Crypto
CFTC Chair Selig Says the Agency Will Write Crypto Market-Structure Rules Without Congress
Selig says the regulator is preparing for markets that trade continuously on-chain, days after the Clarity Act failed in the Senate.
Macro
UK Banks Settle First Interbank Tokenized-Deposit Transfers as the Federal Reserve Prepares FedNow for Cross-Border Payments
Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays ran two mortgage settlements and HSBC joined a simulated marketplace purchase, under a Bank of England preference for bank-issued tokens over private stablecoins.
Geopolitics
North Korean Operators Used Fake Job Interviews to Infect 30,000 Devices and Take $10.7 Million in Crypto
Investigators say the campaign compromised more than 7,000 wallets across upward of 100 countries between December 2025 and July 2026, and remains active.
Crypto
Circle Opens a Continuous Stablecoin Foreign-Exchange Engine and Extends Cross-Chain Transfers to Its Euro and Bitcoin Tokens
StableFX places a request-for-quote system at the protocol layer of Circle's Arc chain, while EURC now moves across five networks and cirBTC connects Arc and Ethereum.
Crypto
White Hats Move 52 Bitcoin From the Coldcard Seed Flaw Into a Recovery Trust as a Claims Portal Opens
A firmware defect from March 2021 produced guessable wallet seeds, and in France six people were charged after holding and torturing a family over a wallet that contained 100 euros.
Markets
NYSE and Blockchain.com Sign a Memorandum to Put Tokenized US Stocks in Front of 44 Million Accounts
The exchange plans a digital alternative trading system, and ICE Data Services would distribute Blockchain.com's crypto market data in return.
Crypto
Bitcoin Fell Below $84,000 as Treasury Yields Reached Their Highest Level Since 2007
A firm United States business survey, a rebound in oil and weak demand at a five-year note auction lifted borrowing costs, and roughly $16 billion of bitcoin options expire on Friday.