Morning Edition · Thursday, October 1, 2026
Crypto
MetaMask Exits Its Lido Validators After a Compromise of Part of Its Infrastructure
The wallet maker says user wallets are not at immediate risk because it never holds staking withdrawal keys, but the exited ether will take up to about 45 days to return through the validator entry queue.
Crypto
Aztec Discloses an Alpha V5 Flaw That Could Let an Invalid Transaction Pass Proof Verification
Core contributors found the defect through internal AI-assisted auditing, say the chain's history cannot show whether anyone exploited it, and are deferring the fix to V6 while urging teams to pause V5 deployments.
Crypto
Bitcoin Developers Propose Deterministic Signing to Expose Wallets That Leak Keys
BIP461 would fix one signature per key and message, letting a holder sign on two devices and compare, turning covert key exfiltration through nonce choice into a detectable mismatch.
Crypto
DogeOS Opens a Dogecoin Smart-Contract Testnet Secured by Permissioned Operators, Not Miners
The zero-knowledge rollup charges fees in DOGE and settles to Dogecoin, but bridge transitions currently require a majority of validators to sign off, plus a signer running inside a trusted execution environment.
Crypto
Two Accounting Bugs Drain Small DeFi Pools as France's Cyber Agency Reports Its Own Breach
A double-counted first-deposit bonus drained about 36,900 dollars on Ethereum and a reserve-accrual mismatch drained about 92,600 dollars on BNB Chain, both from logic errors rather than from stolen keys.
Crypto
A Shielded Bitcoin Proposal Claims Zero-Knowledge Privacy Without a Soft Fork
Misha Komarov's design would hide transaction detail using Bitcoin PIPEs while leaving consensus unchanged, as Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson predicts his Midnight network will overtake Zcash.
Crypto
Miden Packages Its Privacy Technology Into a Stack and a Consumer Wallet
The zero-knowledge network is pitching what it calls PriFi to institutions while shipping Bread, a self-custodial wallet that keeps balances and transfers private by default.
Crypto
Britain Opens Its Crypto Licensing Window as European Supervisors Ask for More Power
The Financial Conduct Authority is taking applications until February for a regime starting in October 2027, while ESMA asks Brussels for stronger supervisory powers and the Netherlands plans a capital-gains levy from 2028.
Crypto
Open USD Launches on Four Chains With Visa, Mastercard and Stripe Behind It
The stablecoin arrives with more than 1 billion dollars in liquidity commitments, Chainlink as an official data oracle, and an equity model that pays distribution partners in shares of the issuer.
Crypto
Crypto Lobbying Spent 8 Million Dollars on a Market-Structure Bill That Never Passed
As the industry's Clarity Act campaign stalls in the Senate, the CFTC is sending the White House swaps-definition rules that could override state gambling claims against prediction markets.
Macro
Goldman Sachs Pushes Its Next Fed Hike Call to December as Bitcoin's Inflation Pop Fades
August core inflation near 3 percent came in below expectations, but long-term Treasury yields did not fall and bitcoin gave back its move above 85,000 dollars.
Markets
Bitcoin Closes Its Strongest Quarter Since 2024 With Leverage Falling and ETF Inflows Slowing
Bitfinex says a further advance needs stronger spot buying after a gain of roughly 42.5 percent, while Arthur Hayes ties his 1 million dollar forecast to stress in debt-funded AI infrastructure.