Morning Edition · Friday, October 2, 2026
Crypto
Aztec Discloses Critical Soundness Flaw in Alpha V5 Proving System and Tells Teams to Halt Deployments
The privacy layer-2 says an attacker could have constructed a valid-looking proof for a transaction the network should reject, and that chain history cannot show whether anyone did.
Crypto
Bitget Refills $300 Million Protection Fund After $387.5 Million Breach as September Sets 2026's Worst Loss Total
Two incidents, Bitget and the Liquid Network, accounted for roughly 92 percent of the month's $768 million in reported losses, and neither started with a smart-contract bug.
Crypto
NEAR Intents Says It Has Identified Its Attacker and Gives 48 Hours to Return $3.8 Million
The bug sat in the handoff between the Omni deposit system and the Intents contract, two components that each worked correctly on their own.
Crypto
Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project Ship zkAPI, Letting Users Pay for Metered Services Without an Identity
Credits sit in an Ethereum mainnet vault and spending is authorized by a zero-knowledge proof, so the payment layer never learns which requests were made and the service never learns who paid.
Crypto
SEC Proposes Crypto Custody Framework Allowing Advisers to Self-Custody Client Assets in Limited Cases
The proposal would also let state trust companies hold fund and client crypto, and arrives as Hester Peirce, the first head of the agency's Crypto Task Force, leaves this week.
Geopolitics
US Treasury Sanctions A7 Network, Saying Its Sub-Agents Moved More Than $17 Billion for Russia and Iran
FinCEN has proposed barring fund transmittals tied to the network's sub-agents, and OFAC designated the group a significant transnational criminal organization built partly on the ruble-pegged A7A5 token.
Macro
IMF Releases $139 Million to El Salvador After Waiving Its Breach of the Bitcoin Accumulation Limit
The Fund accepted that bitcoin added after the first review came from private donations, and says it expects no further accumulation beyond documented donations under the program.
Crypto
Fiserv Puts a State Bank's Dollar Token on Solana, Opening Stablecoin Issuance to Its Bank Clients
Roughrider Coin, issued with the Bank of North Dakota, lets more than 90 banks and credit unions settle between themselves in seconds, with VersaBank and Fireblocks handling minting, custody and reserves.
Crypto
Electrum Patches a Lightning Backup Flaw That Left Users Unable to Reclaim Funds After a Remote Channel Close
The fix only protects new exports, so holders with seed-phrase-derived Lightning keys and anchor channels must replace older backups that lack the key needed to sweep their balance.
Crypto
Research Finds Professional Market-Maker Pools Cut Solana Trading Costs While Passive Liquidity Providers Lose Ground
A September preprint reports cheaper SOL/USDC execution in quiet markets at proprietary automated market makers, with returns to public-pool depositors requiring separate accounting.
Crypto
Security Roundup: Three Small Exploits Reproduced This Week Trace to Accounting Errors Rather Than Novel Attacks
Proof-of-concept code published by DeFiHackLabs covers a token burn that skewed a pool's reserves, a vault share price read from spot balances, and a deposit bonus counted twice, for about $129,000 combined.
Macro
Fed Vice Chair Jefferson Signals Patience as October Rate-Hike Odds Fall to 23 Percent From About 70
Manufacturers reported rising input prices while orders and employment expanded, leaving the rates debate unresolved before Friday's payrolls report with bitcoin trading near $86,000.