Morning Edition · Saturday, September 26, 2026
Crypto
Bitget says spoofed transfer instructions, not stolen keys, drained $351.6 million from its hot wallets
Circle and Tether froze roughly $318,000 of the proceeds while the attacker converted stablecoins into ether, which no issuer can blacklist.
Crypto
Aztec discloses a critical soundness flaw in its Alpha V5 proving system, with the fix deferred to V6
An attacker could construct a proof that verifies for a transaction the network should reject, and contributors found the defect through internal artificial-intelligence-assisted auditing.
Crypto
SEC staff say some staking receipt tokens and token buybacks fall outside securities law
The answers carry no legal force and the Commission has neither approved nor disapproved them, leaving the industry with staff interpretation instead of statute.
Crypto
Researchers map Zcash-style shielded transfers for bitcoin without changing Bitcoin's consensus rules
The design hides sender, receiver and amount using zero-knowledge proofs, but no finished mechanism exists to lock real BTC into the system and release it again.
Crypto
Solana's Alpenglow consensus rewrite reaches a second public test network
The upgrade targets settlement in about 150 milliseconds and now runs where application teams can test against it before the live chain switches over.
Crypto
Cosmos Hub validators halt the chain for a day to recover 1.23 million ATOM after a Neutron governance attack
The attacker spent 20,199 USDC to buy and stake enough NTRN to pass a proposal with 82% support, then used reentrancy to take control of 11 contracts.
Crypto
Hester Peirce leaves the SEC on October 2 after arguing that identity checks should use zero-knowledge proofs
The departing commissioner wants users to satisfy compliance requirements without handing a name, address and passport to every platform they touch.
Crypto
Ethereum researchers propose shrinking the client's trusted base so formal verification can cover what matters
The plan splits client software into verifiable pure modules such as cryptography and serialization and untrusted modules with side effects such as networking.
Crypto
XRP Ledger's Batch amendment slips to October 9 after validator support fell below the 80% threshold
A brief drop in support restarted the two-week activation clock for a feature that would bundle up to eight transactions into one.
Crypto
KelpDAO's developer sues LayerZero over a $292 million bridge exploit, pushing DeFi loss allocation into court
The claim says LayerZero endorsed in writing the single-verifier configuration it later blamed, while a week of smaller incidents shows the same failure patterns repeating.
Crypto
The EU faces a September 30 deadline on how MiCA treats decentralized lending
The European Banking Authority's review response addresses how crypto firms access financial services, while any new duties on DeFi loans would require a later legislative decision.
Macro
Bitcoin holds near $84,000 as the 10-year Treasury yield reaches 5.22% and traders cut $1.7 billion of leverage
Exchange-traded funds absorbed about $2.8 billion over six sessions while the bond sell-off lifted borrowing costs to their highest since 2007.