Morning Edition · Sunday, September 27, 2026
Crypto
Bitget Blames North Korea-Linked Hackers for $388 Million Theft That Bypassed Its Signing Controls
The attacker never took a private key, and about $83 million of the stolen XRP has already moved because Ripple has no power to freeze the ledger's native asset.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Soundness Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Proving System, With the Fix Deferred to V6
Internal AI-assisted auditing found that an attacker could build a proof that verifies for a transaction the privacy network should reject, the second critical proving bug Aztec has disclosed this year.
Crypto
Fed Gives Stablecoin Issuers 24 Hours to Report a Reserve Shortfall Under Draft GENIUS Act Rules
An issuer that cannot restore full backing would have to liquidate reserves and start redemptions, a sequence that compresses a shortfall into about two days.
Crypto
Researchers Publish a Design for Shielded Bitcoin That Needs No Change to Bitcoin's Rules
The paper from the New York cryptography lab [alloc] init borrows Zcash's encrypted notes and nullifiers, but leaves no working way to move real BTC in or out.
Crypto
Solana's Alpenglow Consensus Rewrite Reaches Both Public Test Networks Ahead of a Mainnet Decision
The upgrade targets finality of about 150 milliseconds against roughly 13 seconds today, and validator client software carrying it is already recommended to every mainnet operator.
Crypto
Unauthorized Mints and a Rigged Oracle Feed Drive the Week's Smaller On-Chain Losses
SingularityNET lost $16.77 million to a minting flaw already seen at two sibling projects, while a manipulated price feed unlocked a $3.5 million borrow on Starknet.
Crypto
Binance Buys $100 Million of Circle Stock and Signs a Five-Year Deal to Push USDC
The world's largest exchange becomes a shareholder in its stablecoin supplier, while Tether's $183.75 billion float still dwarfs USDC's $75.39 billion.
Crypto
CFTC Staff Clear Futures Brokers to Hold Customer Funds in Tokenized Assets and Keep Records On-Chain
The guidance arrived the same week a Solana-based exchange said it wants to expand tokenized stock listings from about 200 symbols to 10,000.
Crypto
Hester Peirce Leaves the SEC on 2 October, Removing Crypto's Most Consistent Internal Advocate
Her exit lands while digital-asset policy rests on staff letters and agency discretion, after the Senate failed to pass market-structure legislation on 15 September.
Crypto
Samourai Wallet Developer Writes From Prison as Privacy-Tool Prosecutions Set Their Precedent
Keonne Rodriguez is serving 60 months for conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and describes the past month as the worst of his life.
Crypto
XRP Ledger's Batch Upgrade Slips to 9 October After Validator Support Fell Below 80%
A brief dip under the network's approval threshold restarted a two-week activation clock for a feature that would let users bundle up to eight transactions atomically.
Macro
Bitcoin ETFs Take $2.4 Billion in a Week as Treasury Buyback Plans Loosen Dollar Funding
The inflow turned 2026 net flows positive for the funds, which sat roughly $5.8 billion in deficit as recently as mid-July.