Morning Edition · Monday, October 26, 2026
Crypto
Electrum Patches Flaw That Let Malicious Servers Steal Bitcoin During Fee Bumps
Attackers were exploiting the bug before disclosure, with at least one confirmed theft, and older versions of the wallet remain exposed when they connect to a hostile server.
Crypto
Flash-Loan Governance Takeover Drains About $4.85 Million From X100 on Ethereum
The attacker bought two of three seats on X100's "Senate", voted and executed a treasury sale for about 36 USDT in one transaction, and the X token fell 96%.
Crypto
Initia Exploit Minted Unbacked Tokens and Emptied Its USDC Bridge Reserve to $63
A caching bug in Initia's Move virtual machine let an attacker create about $7.48 million in unbacked balances and bridge out roughly $2.7 million before the chain halted, and no restart or reimbursement has been announced.
Crypto
CoinDCX Admits $15.99 Million USDT Loss From Retired Wallets After Chief Executive Called Reports a False Alarm
The Indian exchange said a failure in its automated deposit-sweep service left customer deposits on decommissioned addresses, and the company will absorb the loss.
Crypto
Bitget Hacker Resumes Laundering as October's Security Roundup Adds Ledger Implants and Balancer's Wind-Down
The attacker behind Bitget's $387.5 million theft moved $19.48 million between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24, while estimates of losses from tampered Ledger devices sold by a reseller range from $86 million to $102 million.
Crypto
A Live Ethereum Rollup Drops Elliptic-Curve Signatures for Hash Chains as Post-Quantum Designs Move Toward Production
The bb84 payments rollup authenticates every layer-2 transaction with keccak-256 preimages, while new research and Aztec's 2030 roadmap show the cost and the long timelines of quantum migration.
Crypto
Lido Opens Permissionless Ethereum Validators of Up to 2,048 ETH Behind a 32 ETH Operator Bond
The new module, activated Oct. 23, uses the Ethereum upgrade that lets one validator hold far more stake, but its bond is about 13 times Lido's default entry requirement and its initial capacity is capped at 0.01% of Lido Core.
Crypto
Miden Launches a Private-Finance Stack Built on a Confidential Circle Dollar as Privacy Layer 2s Court Institutions
Miden's PriFi stack uses USDCx, a USDC-backed confidential stablecoin issued through Circle's xReserve, while rival Aztec is still shipping fixes from a critical proving-system flaw found by AI-assisted audit.
Tech
Buterin Backs Moonshot's Decision to Strip Offensive Hacking Skills From Kimi 3.1
The Ethereum co-founder argued that limiting what AI models can do is safer than limiting who can use them, and warned that the alternative leads to identity checks for model access and tiers of citizenship based on nationality.
Geopolitics
Bank of Israel Rejects Netanyahu's Plan to Use Crypto to Evade Possible Sanctions
The central bank said cryptocurrencies cannot serve as a way around sanctions, and 109 Israeli economists and business leaders warned that the plan would not prevent financial isolation.
Crypto
Canada Proposes Stablecoin Rules Guaranteeing Face-Value Redemption for Any Balance With Fees Capped at 1%
The draft regulations, published in the Canada Gazette on Oct. 24, would require redemption within three business days under Bank of Canada oversight and are meant to take effect in fall 2027.
Markets
Bitcoin Falls Below $80,000 as Investors Pull ETF Money Before the Federal Reserve Decision
More than $800 million in crypto positions were liquidated in a day, Ether and XRP led the declines, and the sell-off in AI-related stocks spread through Asia after Goldman Sachs cut its target for South Korea's Kospi by 25%.