Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Crypto
THORChain Declines to Block Bitget Hacker as NEAR Intents Says It Rejected $50 Million in Stolen Flows
The two responses to the same $387.5 million theft show that freezing stolen crypto now depends entirely on which layer of infrastructure the funds pass through.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses Critical Proving-System Flaw in Its Alpha V5 Privacy Network
Contributors say an attacker could construct a proof that verifies for a transaction the network should reject, and the fix is deferred to the next release.
Crypto
Chainlink Rebuilds Its Bridge Software to Let Banks Run Their Own Transfer Checks
The new version of Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) lets issuers operate independent verifiers that must approve a transfer before it clears, and a separate deal connects Chainlink to banks using Swift's blockchain ledger.
Crypto
Compound Delegates Say the Foundation Used DAO Reserves to Buy the Votes That Approved Its Own Budget
On-chain records show reserve funds converted into 344,780 COMP and delegated to the Foundation's voting address, returned less than an hour before two proposal deadlines.
Geopolitics
Senate Democrats Call Tether's USDT a Financial Lifeline for Iran and Ask Treasury to Investigate
Minority staff reviewed 846 sanctioned wallets and found 84 percent transacted in USDT, while Tether points to $550 million it has frozen.
Crypto
Goldman Sachs Opens Its $100 Billion Treasury Fund to Crypto Trading Desks Without Tokenizing It
The fund reaches Lynq, a settlement network running on a permissioned Avalanche chain, through tZERO rather than as an on-chain token.
Crypto
Restaking Economics Collapse and Ether.fi Cuts Its Last Structural Tie to EigenLayer
The sector secured about $10 billion while generating roughly $100,000 in weekly fees, and EigenLayer's holdings have fallen to $5.10 billion from $22.06 billion.
Crypto
CFTC Registers Coinbase Clearing, Allowing USDC as Collateral and Round-the-Clock Derivatives Settlement
A stablecoin now sits inside a registered United States clearinghouse, and Coinbase separately agreed with Citigroup to build stablecoin payment rails for institutional clients.
Crypto
Miden Ships a Self-Custodial Wallet That Proves Transactions on the User's Device
The chain sees only a 32-byte commitment, and the company is packaging identity, custody and compliance layers around it under the name PriFi.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Publish a Post-Quantum Design for Stealth Addresses
Two new posts extend the stealth address protocol to resist quantum attack on both recipient anonymity and spending authority.
Crypto
Robinhood Chain's Growth Is Drawing Organized Memecoin Scam Operations
A security firm identified a second suspected rug factory behind hundreds of tokens on a network that L2Beat still classifies at its lowest decentralization stage.
Macro
Bitcoin Holds Near $83,000 as Traders Add to Bets on Further Fed Rate Increases
Global equities fell to a one-week low before Wednesday's inflation data while Strategy and Strive bought a combined $232.5 million of bitcoin last week.