Morning Edition · Sunday, October 25, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Core will patch and disclose AI-findable bugs right away instead of holding them under embargo
A policy merged on Oct. 22 lets maintainers mark a vulnerability "easily discoverable" and ship fixes for every supported version at once, after AI-assisted scans turned up nearly 5,000 possible flaws across 390 Bitcoin projects.
Crypto
Initia halts its chain and rollups after a reported uncollateralized stablecoin mint drains about $2.6 million
A researcher said 2 million AUSD were minted without backing and bridged out to Ethereum with ETH and USDC. In the same week, Base's Slice protocol and the WAX bridge lost smaller sums, and Keystone confirmed that hackers took customers' names and home addresses.
Geopolitics
Bank of Israel rejects Netanyahu's proposal to prepare crypto routes around possible sanctions
Netanyahu answered that he listens to the central bank but will do what he thinks best, and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot accused him of "dismantling the Israeli economy."
Crypto
A live OP Stack rollup replaces signatures with hash chains as Aztec sets a 2030 post-quantum deadline
The bb84 chain has run on Ethereum mainnet since Sept. 30 with no elliptic-curve signatures inside the layer-2, while Aztec says full migration will also require changes to Ethereum's own data layer.
Crypto
Kraken stops asking Monero buyers how they spend but keeps a $1,500 monthly withdrawal cap
Co-chief executive Arjun Sethi said the compliance emails sent to Monero customers were unjustified, but individuals still cannot withdraw more than $1,500 of the coin in any rolling 30-day period.
Crypto
Wells Fargo, Cisco and Marvell bring objections to the OKX and ICE tokenized-stock venue to 22
Each objection bars that company's stock from the venue under the Securities and Exchange Commission's exemption, while the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is backing round-the-clock stock tokens that would trade without Wall Street's usual price rules.
Crypto
Circle lets institutions collect rebates by matching other holders' USDC redemptions
Matched redeemers pay auction fees capped at the 0.05% Express rate, under a Circle Mint fee schedule that took effect Oct. 19 and dropped a separate overage fee on net redemptions.
Crypto
Firedancer makes bounty hunters burn 1 SOL per bug report, duplicates included
Jump Crypto's new platform pays double rewards and triple for flaws in Solana's Alpenglow consensus, after a $1 million contest drew 809 reports that Jump says were mostly written with AI agents.
Crypto
Miden pitches a private-finance stack built on selective disclosure, with a self-custodial wallet called Bread
Transactions run and are proved on the user's own device, and auditors can be shown only the data they need, a compliance-first design that contrasts with the restrictions now applied to Monero.
Crypto
Bitcoin falls below $80,000 after U.S. evacuations in the Middle East, and Arthur Hayes exits his directional bets
More than $200 million of leveraged long positions were liquidated in one hour, according to Watcher Guru, while analysts disagree over whether 9,458 bitcoin withdrawn from Wintermute reflect buying.
Crypto
New York seeks $1.37 billion from NovaTech operators as human-sounding voice AI widens the reach of crypto fraud
A woman in Guelph, Ontario, lost $140,000 after answering a text sent to the "wrong number," and Block's new voice AI drew warnings that it could make such scams more convincing.
Crypto
Argentine judge dismisses the criminal case against Milei over the LIBRA token, and Milei targets five journalists
The court found that Milei's promotion of the token did not constitute fraud, and the president then asked who would compensate him for the damage he says the coverage did to his reputation.