Morning Edition · Thursday, October 8, 2026
Crypto
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake urges "bunker mode" after OpenAI math results revive fears for wallet signatures
Drake says the signature scheme that protects Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets could fail within months in a worst case, though no attack has been shown and about 6 million Bitcoin already sit at addresses whose public keys are visible on-chain.
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Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade goes live on Sepolia with a 200 million gas ceiling that early blocks leave half empty
The test network rehearsal brings in enshrined proposer-builder separation and block-level access lists ahead of a mainnet activation that developers target for December, but sampled blocks used less than half of the new processing budget.
Crypto
Attacker drains 200 ETH from a MakerDAO keeper that never settled its 2020 Black Thursday auctions
An unprotected function in a third-party liquidation bot let the attacker claim about $540,000 in stranded collateral, a rounding flaw drained a legacy Set Protocol product the same day, and a New York jury convicted the Uranium Finance hacker.
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Bank of Russia clears Sberbank and VTB to hold Bitcoin as it publishes its first register of crypto operators
Sberbank, Russia's largest bank and a target of United States sanctions, plans to offer Bitcoin, Ether and Tether custody inside its banking apps from December 1, with full identity checks on every transaction.
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Privacy chains pitch selective disclosure as Aztec's undetectable proving bug shows what confidentiality costs
Grayscale argues that artificial intelligence makes Zcash-style shielding necessary and Miden has launched a private-finance stack with built-in compliance tools, while Aztec still cannot say whether its V5 proving flaw was ever exploited.
Markets
Bitcoin falls below $83,000 as Brent crude tops $102 on a reported Iran strike plan and Treasury yields climb
Ether slid toward $2,500 and left about $1.35 billion of leveraged long positions near liquidation, while Japanese institutions' sales of foreign bonds added to pressure on dollar funding.
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US government moves about $470 million in seized crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses
Arkham Intelligence traced Bitcoin, wrapped Bitcoin and other assets out of government-controlled wallets on October 7, three months after a similar $297 million transfer, and the sales question returns under a reserve policy that bars selling some coins but not all.
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Ethereum researchers price the cost of censorship under multiple proposers and warn of orphaned bytecode in state redesign
Three new Ethereum Research posts look at whether concurrent proposers survive Sybil identities, how proprietary market-maker pools would work on Ethereum, and who cleans up code that a proposed SETCODEFROM opcode would leave behind.
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Polygon connects TRON's $94 billion USDT base to its payments stack as Samsung brings USDC transfers to 82 million phones
Polygon says businesses can move Tether's dollar token between TRON and Ethereum-compatible networks without a bridge or wallet provider, and Kazakhstan's central bank has asked Tether to study a tenge-linked stablecoin.
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CFTC chair Michael Selig says new crypto rules will prevent another FTX-style collapse
Selig is pressing ahead with rulemaking under the agency's existing authority while the market-structure bill remains stuck in the Senate, which leaves crypto rules dependent on whoever runs the agency.
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Wells Fargo negotiates crypto liquidity deal with Kraken parent Payward as Robinhood puts Bitcoin on its balance sheet
US banks and brokers are bringing crypto trading, custody and staking in-house through crypto-native partners, while Charles Schwab research shows its crypto-holding clients plan to add more.
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Armed men force a foreign resident near Pattaya to transfer about $820,000 in crypto, a Telegram channel reports
The reported home invasion in Thailand came alongside a French case in which kidnappers held a 60-year-old gold trader for 18 days and took nearly €500,000, adding to a run of physical attacks on holders of liquid assets.