Morning Edition · Monday, September 28, 2026
Crypto
Zano Rewinds Its Blockchain One Month After Gateway Flaw Minted Unauthorized Coins
The privacy network restarted at block 3,833,000, the last block before the August hard fork that activated the broken feature, and says it will compensate users from team and large-holder funds rather than new issuance.
Crypto
Buterin Says Hegotá Will Be Ethereum's Last Familiar Fork Before a Cryptographic Rebuild
The 2027 upgrade is the boundary, with recursive proofs, automated formal verification and a December 2029 quantum-resistance deadline defining everything after it.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses a Critical Soundness Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Proving System
Core contributors found the defect through internal AI-assisted auditing and say a crafted proof could pass verification for a transaction the network should reject, with the fix deferred to V6.
Crypto
US Prosecutors Seize $84.2 Million From a Tether Payment Conduit, and the Reserve Question Stays Open
A September court order itemizes accounts at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan plus 1.1 million USDT, while Tether says its exposure is under 0.034% of group assets without saying whether any of it backs the token.
Crypto
US Crypto Rulemaking Falls Back to States as the Clarity Act Collapses
Interviews with aides and industry participants describe a broken bill-writing process behind this month's failed Senate vote, while California's governor signed a law barring public officials from issuing meme coins.
Macro
Bitcoin Trades Below $84,000 as Brent Passes $106 on the Hormuz Standoff
Trump declined to rule out further strikes on Iran before the midterm elections and has scheduled an Oval Office announcement for Monday afternoon.
Crypto
Aave Lets Borrowers Post Coinbase Stock Tokens While Equity Markets Are Shut
Up to $21 million of USDC can be borrowed on Base against seven tokenized stocks whose price feeds hold Friday's close through the weekend.
Crypto
Three New Exploit Reproductions Land in the DeFiHackLabs Feed, All From Trusted Inputs
A forged Circle transfer message, an unprotected registry reinitialization and a privileged burn paired with a premature pool sync push the tracked incident count to 871.
Crypto
Core Lightning Patches a Path That Let a Revoked Channel State Escape the Cheating Penalty
The fix shipped in v26.06.7, ten artificial-intelligence models audited the code during the embargo, and some older Docker images missed the patch.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Publish Post-Quantum Designs for Stealth Addresses
Two new posts separate the spending path from the anonymity path, the step needed to keep private payments working once elliptic-curve assumptions fail.
Macro
A $202 Billion Treasury Settlement Lands on September 30 With Funding Markets Still Calm
Coupon supply hits the quarter-end date when bank balance sheets are least willing to absorb it, and overnight repo rates are the first place strain would appear.
Crypto
Solana's Fee-Ordering Proposal Closes Unmerged, Leaving Leaders in Control of Inclusion
SIMD-0649 would have made priority order a block validity rule inside each entry batch, but reviewers noted that leaders still decide what enters a block and where batches end.