NEWS

September 4, 2026

Trezor Says Shipping Partner Kept Customer Data It Certified as Deleted, Exposing 67,000 More

The exposure could reach more than 80,000 customer records, going back to orders placed in 2019, years after Trezor says it was told those records were gone.

PODCASTS

September 4, 2026

Why the Question Over How to Regulate Perps Has Turned Into a Fight

The CME is suing its own regulator over how perps get classified, and the ruling decides who in the US can trade them. Three lawyers make the case for futures over swaps.

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Bitcoin

September 2, 2026

How Cory Klippsten Would Decide How to Secure Bitcoin Post-Coldcard

Bitcoin rallied 23% after Bessent’s debt-buyback comments and settled near $80K. Swan’s Cory Klippsten weighs in on what ETF inflows and onchain exchange moves really mean.

September 1, 2026

Swan Is Building Bitcoin Custody Split Across Three Companies, With No Key for the Client

Cory Klippsten said on Unchained that Swan and BitGo will each hold a key and a third firm will hold the last one, in a product he called Swan Trinity and expects to ship in the fourth quarter.

August 28, 2026

Blockstream Researchers Propose SHRINCS, a Post-Quantum Bitcoin Signature Built to Preserve Block Space

Blockstream researchers published a draft signature scheme that would make Bitcoin quantum-resistant while keeping roughly three transactions per second of capacity.

August 27, 2026

StarkWare Executes First Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction on Mainnet

A 10,000-satoshi spend confirmed in block 964,199 showed that Bitcoin holders can move coins beyond a quantum computer’s reach without changing the protocol, at a cost of several hundred dollars.

Business

September 4, 2026

AMC CEO Calls Robinhood’s Tokenized Shares ‘Vile’ and Sends In Securities Counsel

Adam Aron said AMC has no connection to the tokens, while Robinhood’s own disclosures say they are unregistered, offshore and carry no shareholder rights.

September 4, 2026

SoFi and Kraken Parent Payward Link Banking Rails to Crypto Markets in 24/7 Settlement Deal

Payward will join SoFi’s round-the-clock dollar settlement network and list SoFiUSD on Kraken, while SoFi taps Kraken Prime for crypto liquidity.

September 4, 2026

Polymarket Offers Traders up to 20x Leverage as Perps Go Live

Polymarket’s launch includes never-expiring contracts on Brent and WTI crude trade offshore, while Kalshi prepares a CFTC filing for a US-regulated version.

September 3, 2026

Echo Base Forms BitMart Claimholder Committee, Weighs Involuntary Bankruptcy

The distressed-asset firm says BitMart never answered its offer of up to $10 million to fund a court-supervised bankruptcy, and it is now organizing creditors to pursue recovery.

DeFi

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

August 31, 2026

Cronos Halts Its Blockchain After $75 Million Exploit at Lending Protocol Tectonic

An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network in response.

August 28, 2026

How Tokenized Stocks Could Undercut Interactive Brokers’ 77% Profit Margin

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers “77% profit margin.”

August 28, 2026

Moonwell Loses $8.7 Million on Base as an Attacker Sidesteps Its Supply Cap

The protocol’s supply cap is checked when a normal deposit mints shares, so the attacker deposited once, then sent 53 million tokens straight to the market and raised what those shares could claim about 3.7-fold.

Ethereum

September 3, 2026

Only Codex Finished Austin Griffith’s AI Security Race, and DeepSeek Nearly Matched It

Ten AI coding agents ran the same 12 Solidity challenges human developers faced at Devcon. Only OpenAI’s Codex cleared the course, and the cheapest near-finisher was an open-weight Chinese model.

August 25, 2026

One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

August 19, 2026

EIP-8363: Should ETH Be Sound Money or a Productive Asset?

Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki, DV Labs’ Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France’s Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.

August 13, 2026

What’s It Like to Hire a North Korean ‘IT Worker’? I Interviewed One

The crypto industry has been unwittingly hiring North Korean “developers” who are really hackers. But as I found out, an almost incomprehensibly easy question incapacitates them.

NFTs

September 1, 2026

StonkBrokers Are Popular on Robinhood Chain. But Is the NFT a Security or Collectible?

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

August 4, 2026

POAP Winds Down After Five Years and Nearly 7.6 Million Onchain Badges

Co-founder Isabel Gonzalez said POAP could not build a sustainable business without undermining what made the project matter, ending a protocol used by Coinbase, Amex, and Warner Music Group.

July 2, 2026

Melania Trump Raked in Over $6 Million From NFTs and Collectibles in 2025

The first lady's annual financial disclosure shows nearly $17 million in total earnings, driven by her Amazon documentary, memoir, and a booming NFT business.

March 17, 2026

OpenSea Shelves Token Launch as Its Quiet Pivot Away From NFTs Stalls

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Regulation

September 4, 2026

Why the Question Over How to Regulate Perps Has Turned Into a Fight

The CME is suing its own regulator over how perps get classified, and the ruling decides who in the US can trade them. Three lawyers make the case for futures over swaps.

September 4, 2026

Coinbase Files With the SEC to List Perpetual Futures on Individual US Stocks

Coinbase filed notice registrations with the SEC this week and says CFTC approval is the next step before it can offer single-stock perps at home.

September 3, 2026

Legal Experts Back the CFTC’s Perps-as-Futures Call as It Moves to Dismiss CME’s Suit

At an Unchained panel, lawyers from the Hyperliquid Policy Center, WilmerHale, and Temporal argued perpetual futures are futures rather than swaps, days after the CFTC asked a judge to throw out CME’s challenge to that classification.

September 3, 2026

Kalshi Prepares CFTC Filing for a Never-Expiring WTI Crude Oil Futures Contract

A source told Reuters the prediction market plans to seek approval as early as next week for a 24/5 perpetual contract on West Texas Intermediate crude.

Tech

September 4, 2026

Trezor Says Shipping Partner Kept Customer Data It Certified as Deleted, Exposing 67,000 More

The exposure could reach more than 80,000 customer records, going back to orders placed in 2019, years after Trezor says it was told those records were gone.

September 2, 2026

World Opens ProveKit to Developers, Letting Phones Prove Age Without Sharing IDs

World says the zero-knowledge toolkit behind its World ID checks is now open to outside developers, letting a phone confirm a fact about its owner without handing over the document behind it.

August 25, 2026

One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

August 24, 2026

Coldcard’s New Firmware Forces Dice Rolls and Coin Flips After $114 Million Seed Failure

Coinkite’s 5.6.1 and 1.5.1Q releases require user-supplied entropy for every new seed, but they do not repair seeds generated on affected firmware.

In Case You Missed it

September 3, 2026

The Chopping Block: Robinhood Chain’s Memecoin Mania and Tokenized Stocks

Laura joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to unpack Robinhood Chain’s surge, the strange fusion of stock tokens and memecoins, the damage speculative entertainment can do to retail, Solana’s competitive position, and why regulated onchain markets will still look different across jurisdictions.

August 28, 2026

The Chopping Block: Crypto’s Rebound, Reg Crypto, and AI Router Wars

The crew sizes up Bitcoin’s rebound, the fight to bring Hyperliquid onshore, the SEC’s new token fundraising framework, and why Stripe’s OpenRouter deal could make AI inference markets look a lot like DeFi.

For Beginners

wbtc alternatives

September 16, 2024

Top Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) Alternatives You Should Know About

Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.

based rollups

July 3, 2024

What Are Based Rollups and How Do They Work?

Based rollups are an exciting new addition to rollup scaling solutions.

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