Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Crypto
Aztec relaunches zk.money on a network whose proving system still has an unfixed critical flaw
Every private transfer is capped below $2,500 and co-signed by a separate protocol's sealed servers while the circuit fix waits for the V6 release.
Crypto
Bitget customers pulled more than 4,000 bitcoin within an hour of withdrawals reopening
The exchange says attackers reached internal network credentials through a third-party security product and issued withdrawal instructions that bypassed risk controls, while cold wallets and private keys stayed intact.
Crypto
Zcash developers merge the first Tachyon component into the shared Zakura library
Project Tachyon lead Sean Bowe says the Udon release moves part of the proposed scaling design into production code aimed at more than 50,000 private payments a second.
Crypto
A wave of exploit write-ups points at privileged paths that worked exactly as specified
Abandoned governance contracts, a manipulated oracle on Starknet and stolen cloud credentials at SingularityNET produced losses that no smart-contract audit of the affected code would have flagged.
Crypto
Sentora asks Aave holders for half the revenue of self-curated markets with no first-loss buffer for suppliers
The proposal leaves the DAO owning the contracts while an outside firm sets collateral, oracles and rate curves, and names no independent watcher over those settings.
Crypto
Robinhood brings perpetual futures and weekend equity trading to United States customers
Binance is listing perpetual contracts on traditional-finance assets the same week, and Cboe extended its S&P Dow Jones licence to cover possible tokenized options.
Crypto
The Federal Reserve's two-day stablecoin redemption clock reaches issuers, not exchange customers
A venue snapshot puts about $76 billion of stablecoins on trading platforms where the exit depends on the exchange, while El Salvador and Japan push stablecoin payments to retail users.
Crypto
BTG Pactual fund records begin mirroring onto the XRP Ledger while the official registry stays off-chain
Brazil's CSD BR, which oversees records for about $4 trillion in assets, keeps its own database as the legal record and writes a parallel copy to a public chain.
Crypto
Miden ships a self-custodial wallet that proves transactions on the user's device
The chain sees only a 32-byte commitment rather than balances or counterparties, and the team is packaging the design as a stack it calls PriFi.
Crypto
Illinois details how a 0.2 percent transaction tax would reach stablecoins, bridges and wallet transfers
Comments close on 30 October for rules taking effect in January 2027, while a Republican senator blames Democrats for the collapse of the federal market-structure bill.
Macro
Fed governor Barr calls for further rate increases as bitcoin trades below its level from earlier this month
Market-implied odds of an October hike fell to about 50 percent from roughly 70 percent, and CryptoQuant's trend gauge sits near its maximum reading even as buying slows.
Crypto
Riot closes its $200 million Coinbase bitcoin loan as Hut 8 secures a $1 billion credit line with liquidity conditions
One miner is removing claims on pledged coin while the other accepts covenants requiring it to keep 40 percent liquidity against its facility.