Morning Edition · Saturday, October 3, 2026
Crypto
Ethereum Foundation Ships Anonymous Payments for AI Model Access on Mainnet
zkAPI lets a user prove they have sufficient funds and receive a temporary, spending-capped key without revealing their identity. Miden launched a private stablecoin wallet the same week.
Crypto
Blast Is Closing Its Ethereum Layer-2 and Has Given Users Until October 26 to Withdraw
A network that once held more than $2 billion is winding down with roughly $20 million left, saying maintenance costs now exceed revenue.
Crypto
Attacker Forged a Safe Authorization Check to Drain 114 Ether From an Aave Looping Module
The FlashLoopAdapter asked the caller whether it was allowed, instead of verifying it independently, and two multisig wallets lost about $305,000.
Crypto
SEC Proposes a 760-Page Custody Framework That Would Let Advisers Hold Crypto Themselves
State trust companies could serve as custodians, and self-custody would be permitted only where no approved custodian is available.
Crypto
Aztec Still Awaits a Fix for a Proving Flaw That Could Accept Invalid Transactions
Contributors say chain history cannot show whether the defect was ever used, and a separate researcher reported ten cases of verification code that returns success without checking anything.
Macro
Tether and Circle Have Added About $200 Billion of Treasury Exposure in Five Years
That increase covers more than 40% of the decline in China's holdings of United States government debt, placing stablecoin issuers among the marginal buyers of short-dated paper.
Crypto
Community Bankers Sue the Comptroller of the Currency Over Crypto Trust Charters
The suit lands as Anchorage Digital, one of the few federally chartered crypto banks, cuts 17% of its staff and BNY explores an infrastructure deal with Kraken's parent.
Crypto
BNB Chain Passes $1 Billion in Tokenized Stocks and Funds, Taking Share From Ethereum
The market for tokenized equities and exchange-traded funds has grown more than fivefold this year to $3.7 billion, and Ethereum's share fell from 48% in January to 22%.
Macro
Bitcoin Topped $87,000 After a Weak September Jobs Report, Then Gave Back Most of the Gain
American employers added 29,000 jobs and unemployment rose to 4.2%, and bond yields reversed higher by the afternoon.
World
IMF Releases $139 Million to El Salvador While Pressing It to Shrink Its Bitcoin Programme
A South African bank started custodying bitcoin for institutions the same week, and a Cornell survey of 25,880 people found the asset is used most where banking works least.
Tech
Ethereum Researchers Propose an On-Chain Purchasing-Power Signal Anchored to Compute
The design pays reporters to stake Ether behind a claimed price threshold, aiming to produce an inflation-adjacent reference without trusting a data provider.
Crypto
Masked Men Beat a Crypto Holder With Hammers in England and Took Instructions by Video Call
Police have offered a £10,000 reward in a Solihull home invasion in which three attackers forced a transfer worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.