Morning Edition · Monday, October 5, 2026
Crypto
OKX and NYSE owner ICE file to trade 63 tokenized U.S. stocks around the clock on Uniswap v4 pools
The OKXICE joint venture would rely on the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) new five-year innovation exemption, pass through dividends and voting rights, and run trading in permissioned pools on OKX's X Layer network.
Crypto
Zcash activates 25-second blocks on public testnet ahead of a November 5 mainnet target
The NU7 upgrade cuts block time from 75 seconds, sends 60% of transaction fees to a reserve for future mining rewards, and disables the old Sprout shielded pool, Zcash's original privacy pool.
Crypto
Aztec reopens private payments with transfer caps while a proving-system flaw in Alpha V5 stays unfixed
Contributors say a forged proof could pass verification for an invalid transaction, and they cannot tell from chain history whether anyone has already used the flaw.
Crypto
Bitcoin Core closes a signing path that could let an attacker redirect a payment without stealing keys
The merged fix stops the wallet from signing a SIGHASH_SINGLE input that has no matching output, but no release has yet been confirmed to ship it.
Crypto
Uniswap v4 hook rebalancing flaw drains about $115,000 from GoldPesa on Base, and MALT loses treasury DAI on Polygon
In both attacks, a protocol-funded rebalance ran inside a user's swap without separating the protocol's capital from the caller's, and attackers used flash loans to capture the difference.
Macro
Binance will require Brazilian users to declare purpose and counterparty for cross-border crypto transfers from November 1
Brazil's central bank has placed offshore crypto transfers under its foreign-exchange framework. Transfers above $50,000 require one of 96 purpose codes, and a $100,000 cap applies when the foreign counterparty lacks local authorization.
Crypto
Miden launches a private finance stack and puts its Bread wallet on testnet, with proofs generated on users' devices
The network says the chain sees only a 32-byte commitment for each account, and it plans to anchor the system with USDCx, a private token pegged one-to-one to USDC.
Crypto
Zcash advocacy group registers its first Washington lobbyist as the CLARITY Act sits frozen through the election recess
Pretty Good Policy for Zcash names executive director Divij Pandya to lobby on market structure and digital-asset taxes, while Illinois seeks to delay its 0.2% crypto transaction tax to July 2027.
Crypto
Kraken parent Payward connects to Bahrain-regulated Singapore Gulf Bank's network for 24/7 dollar settlement
Singapore Gulf Bank's (SGB) clearing network, SGB Net, processes more than $20 billion in fiat transactions each month. The link lets selected institutional clients fund trades on Kraken at any hour, starting with U.S. dollars.
Macro
IMF releases about $138 million to El Salvador after waiving its breach of the Bitcoin accumulation limit
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board completed two program reviews on October 1, and El Salvador's new commitments rule out further Bitcoin accumulation beyond documented donations.
Crypto
Ether beat bitcoin in the third quarter while its order-book depth fell to as little as 35% of bitcoin's
CoinGecko data shows ether up 70% in the quarter against bitcoin's 42%, while Coin Metrics warns that historical exchange-outflow charts change as analysts identify more exchange wallets.
Crypto
Bitcoin's push toward $87,000 stalls for the second time in a week after payrolls cut the odds of an October Fed hike
Glassnode estimates the probability of another quarter-point hike on October 28 fell from 66% to 22%, while Strategy's holdings reached 847,666 BTC and BNB moved above $800.