Morning Edition · Saturday, October 24, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Core Ends Year-Long Embargoes for Bugs That AI Can Rediscover
Developers will now backport fixes for easily found flaws to every maintained version and ship point releases quickly, after an AI scan of 390 Bitcoin repositories produced 4,962 findings in about a day.
Crypto
Initia Halts Its Blockchain After a MoveVM Bug Lets an Attacker Mint Unbacked Tokens and Move $2.6 Million to Ethereum
The incident came days after Pirate Chain rolled back its ledger to erase 39.8 million counterfeit tokens, the second chain this month to stop or rewrite history over a protocol-level minting flaw.
Crypto
Aztec Sets an End-2030 Deadline for Post-Quantum Migration and Commits to Formally Verifying Its Whole Stack
The privacy rollup links the plan to a critical V5 proving flaw that its own AI-assisted audit found, an issue whose exploitation cannot be confirmed or ruled out from the chain's history.
Crypto
Miden Pitches a Private-by-Default Finance Stack as Kraken Users Report Questions About Monero Withdrawals
Miden's plan uses USDCx, a token backed one-for-one by USDC with selective disclosure for auditors, while the Kraken reports show the scrutiny that fully private coins face at regulated exchanges.
Crypto
Franklin Templeton Puts $150 Million of Fund Shares on the XRP Ledger in One Wallet That Shares Signers With the Issuer
Separately, a Sentora review found JPM Coin had zero supply and zero transfers on Ethereum days after JPMorgan announced its arrival there, with only one allowlisted address.
Crypto
Security Roundup: Slice Module on Base Loses $41,000 to Fake Payout Contracts as NEAR Intents Closes Its $3.8 Million Case
Most of this month's incidents came from contracts trusting inputs they never checked, including a whitelist breach that drained $6 million in wrapped staked ether from a Base vault.
Crypto
Aave Lowers Its USDT Utilization Threshold to 92%, Raising Borrowing Costs Earlier to Protect Withdrawals
At 94% utilization the new curve charges about 7% a year instead of 4.5%, a change that pressures leveraged stablecoin loops such as those built on Ethena's USDe.
Crypto
HSBC Brings Its RedCoin Stablecoin to 3.3 Million PayMe Users as the OCC Finalizes Redemption Rules for US Issuers
The Hong Kong dollar token launches for payments first, while the US rule requires reserves at least equal to tokens outstanding and redemption within two business days from Jan. 18, 2027.
Geopolitics
Netanyahu Says He Has Ordered a Blockchain Plan in Case Israel Faces Banking Sanctions
Speaking four days before Israel's Oct. 27 election, he called blockchain "one of the alternatives" for an "alternative economic system" but named no protocol, token or timeline.
Geopolitics
China Targets 2030 for a National Blockchain Network With Digital Identity as South Korea's Central Bank Seeks Stablecoin Controls in Forex Law
Beijing's five-year information plan calls for a central backbone and regional hubs, while the Bank of Korea plans a forex-law amendment this year to regulate stablecoins as a means of payment.
Markets
Spot Bitcoin ETFs Lose $635.6 Million in a Day, the Largest Outflow Since June, as Brent Crude Tops $116
BlackRock's IBIT accounted for $254.1 million of the withdrawals, and the total crypto market value has fallen by more than $200 billion in under a month.
Crypto
Twenty-Two Companies Including Wells Fargo and Intuit Object to Tokenized Trading of Their Shares on OKX and ICE's Platform
Issuers can refuse tokenized listings, but SpaceX perpetual futures traded about $6 billion after its earnings with no issuer consent required.