Morning Edition · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin Developers Merge Three Signature-Aggregation Proposals That Could Cut Fees by Up to 27%
The documents specify cross-input signature aggregation for a new Taproot output type, but they remain drafts, and the soft fork they require has no activation plan and no wallet support.
Crypto
Mercado Bitcoin Hot-Wallet Theft Reached as Much as $49 Million as Attacks on Exchange Back Offices Continue
Brazil's largest crypto exchange has only reopened in view-only mode, Binance says it has covered about 95% of its $6.3 billion loss, and an outdated card contract shows the same weakness further up the supply chain.
Macro
October Consumer Prices Rose 0.4%, and Markets Now Treat a December Federal Reserve Hike as Certain
Bitcoin fell to about $73,700 and ether to about $2,062 as $723 million of leveraged crypto positions were liquidated and exchange-traded fund holders withdrew money.
Crypto
LNbits Ships Emergency Version 1.7.0 After Attackers Drained Lightning Wallet Servers
Every LNbits release before 1.7.0 is affected, and the same week Binance warned that an unpatched iPhone flaw could let malicious apps read other apps' seed phrases.
Crypto
Poland's Lower House Votes 240-202 to Let the Interior Minister Freeze Bitcoin Before a Court Rules
The sanctions bill covers both bank funds and crypto held by people on a national list, and an appeal to a court would not suspend the freeze.
Crypto
Glassnode Says 35.4% of Issued Bitcoin Now Sits Behind Exposed Public Keys
The 7.12 million bitcoin estimate is above the 6.04 million the firm reported in May, as exchange address reuse and old coins add to the supply a future quantum computer could target.
Crypto
Miden Launches a Private Wallet and a "PriFi" Stack as Aztec Ships an Anonymous Message Board
Miden's Bread wallet and its USDC-backed private stablecoin bring confidential payments to consumers, but the backing asset still sits under its issuer's control.
Crypto
Goldman Sachs and Citi Among Banks Said to Commit $270 Million to a Dollar Stablecoin Venture
The venture, called Project Faro, plans to incorporate in the United States, and it joins a wider bank push into dollar tokens and tokenized securities as Tether and Circle together hold $245.84 billion of supply.
Crypto
CFTC Warns Kalshi of Possible Charges While Siding With Crypto Firms on Perpetual Futures
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing the White House over staff insider trading on prediction markets, and the agency is defending its approval of perpetual contracts against a lawsuit from CME Group.
Crypto
Trump Media Has Pledged 73% of Its Bitcoin to an Options Counterparty as a $1 Billion Note Deadline Nears
MARA sold bitcoin to remove a $750 million collateral risk and Strategy relied on common stock sales, while Miami-Dade County accepts bitcoin for taxes but holds none.
Crypto
New Research Finds Bitcoin Mining Built Around Useful Work Could Increase Energy Use
A second paper proposes splitting block rewards to stop miners undercutting each other once fees replace the subsidy, as Canaan's rig sales fell 96% from a year earlier.
Crypto
Solana Perpetual Futures Volume Jumps 65% as Spot Trading Shrinks and South Korean Exchanges List HYPE
One venue handles about 77% of weekly Solana perpetual turnover, Binance adds HYPE and TRX contracts settled in USDC, and the Lighter perpetuals exchange is among the few layer-2 networks gaining value.