Morning Edition · Monday, October 12, 2026
Crypto
Ledger confirms a hidden cellular implant in a wallet sold by reseller CryptoBilis as theft estimates reach $93 million
Ledger has verified one tampered device and says its own systems were not breached. But an unconfirmed report of a suspect Nano X bought in Europe challenges the company's view that the problem is confined to one Southeast Asian distributor.
Crypto
StarkWare weighs moving Starknet off Ethereum to a hash-based, quantum-resistant chain by 2027
The STRK token more than doubled in seven days and Starknet's value secured rose 40.1% in a week, although no formal proposal or vote exists yet.
Crypto
XRP Ledger patched an overflow bug that could have created up to 18 trillion new XRP, and its foundation says supply was not affected
The flaw sat in the order-book payment math for about a decade, earned researchers a $250,000 bounty, and was fixed quietly in version 3.4.1 before it was made public.
Crypto
79thVault recovers 92% of $12.5 million drained through a single operator key as October hack losses pass $98 million
Cointelegraph's tally puts 2026 hack losses at $2.68 billion through September, and the cause of a $4 million wallet drain on a trader at Token2049 is still unknown.
Crypto
Miden launches a private self-custody wallet while Aztec waits on a proving-system fix it found in July
Miden says its "PriFi stack" makes privacy the default for on-chain finance, while Aztec's V5 network still runs with an acknowledged flaw that lets an invalid proof pass verification.
Crypto
Optimism takes over Unichain's operations as DATA Network retires its own chain to move to Sui
Optimism will run Unichain's sequencer and infrastructure from an October 29 mainnet upgrade, and the Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network's move.
Crypto
Aave's proposed USDG rollover yields less than most borrowing rates, and some yield-collateral loans sit near liquidation
CryptoSlate's snapshots show a February principal-token yield below three quoted funding rates, plus collateral that can take hours to turn into the stablecoins needed to repay loans.
Crypto
With the Clarity Act stalled, US crypto rules depend on agency action that lawyers say leaves spot markets unsettled
Executives see room for tokenization, decentralized-finance products and acquisitions without the bill, but lawyers warn that rules made by regulators can be reversed by the next administration.
Crypto
Bitcoin holds above $84,000 as oil falls, despite more than $600 million in weekly ETF outflows
Iran said Washington's reply on reopening the Strait of Hormuz falls short, Kyiv first denied and then backed a Trump-announced energy ceasefire, and Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets sent $11.13 million of ether to Kraken.
Macro
Argentina's central bank rules out crypto at banks this year but opens the door for a second Milei term
Juan Curutchet, the central bank director responsible for bank supervision, cited "a level of fragility" in the currency market and linked bank crypto services to the end of exchange controls after the 2027 election.
Crypto
Prediction-market disputes move toward the Supreme Court as federal regulators write rules in parallel
The Supreme Court has not said whether it will hear the cases, but several amicus briefs, an interim final rule and a rule proposal are already shaping how event contracts are classified.
Crypto
IMF finds real demand for tokenized stocks but says they trade with less liquidity and more volatility than the shares they track
Investors mostly use on-chain shares for small and after-hours trades, and the Fund says liquidity, legal rules and settlement systems have not kept up.