NEWS

September 15, 2026

Solana Lifts Its Transaction Size Cap to 4,096 Bytes to Make Room for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

A new v1 transaction format lifts the ceiling on a single Solana transaction from 1,232 bytes to 4,096, letting operations that once had to be split across several transactions, including zero-knowledge proofs and large multisigs, fit in one.

PODCASTS

September 16, 2026

OpenAI Says It Cracked a Millennium Prize Problem. Why Is Anthropic Hitting the Brakes?

OpenAI says it solved a Millennium Prize problem as Anthropic calls for slowing AI down. Jordi Visser tells Austin, Ram, and Chris why it’s a midterm story. Plus, oil at $108.

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Bitcoin

September 11, 2026

Blockstream Says It Will Not Pay a Ransom for the Bitcoin Still Missing From Liquid

The company called the withheld coins theft rather than white-hat work as Liquid restarted block production with peg operations still frozen.

September 8, 2026

Liquid Attackers Return 3,400 BTC and Keep Nearly 600 as Blockstream Prepares a Restart

Most of the bitcoin is back in the federation wallet, but $47 million is not, and the sidechain is still frozen.

September 7, 2026

Liquid Sidechain Frozen After ‘White Hat’ Drains Bitcoin Reserve

An Elements software bug let someone mint unbacked L-BTC and peg out roughly 4,000 BTC, and the party holding it says they want the bug patched before it sends most of it back.

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.

Business

September 15, 2026

Tonkeeper Rebrands to Keeper and Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum and Four More Chains

A self-custodial wallet with more than 77 million users on the Telegram-linked TON blockchain is expanding to Bitcoin, Ethereum and four other networks.

September 15, 2026

Guy Young on Why Ethena Launched a Neobank on Top of Its Stablecoin

Ethena’s Guy Young explains why the companybuilt a neobank that pays 6% in yield, 5% cash back, and never tells users they’re holding self-custodial stablecoins instead of dollars.

September 15, 2026

CoinEx Shuts Down After Nine Years, Giving Users Until December 22 to Withdraw

The exchange says its reserves exceed 100% and that it will buy back its CET token at its 0.005 USDT listing price, as closures pile up across the industry.

September 15, 2026

Robinhood Plans In-Kind Redemptions and Voting Rights for Stock Tokens After AMC Backlash

Vlad Tenev says redemption and voting are coming to Stock Tokens, which are currently structured as offshore debt instruments carrying no shareholder rights.

DeFi

September 15, 2026

A Bot Robbed the Hacker Who Drained $7.8 Million in rsETH From a Safe Wallet

An attacker drained about $7.8 million in rsETH from an Ethereum Safe through an over-permissioned module. A bot named Yoink beat him to the payout in the same block.

September 15, 2026

Guy Young on Why Ethena Launched a Neobank on Top of Its Stablecoin

Ethena’s Guy Young explains why the companybuilt a neobank that pays 6% in yield, 5% cash back, and never tells users they’re holding self-custodial stablecoins instead of dollars.

September 15, 2026

Balancer Proposes an Orderly Winddown and a Treasury Distribution to BAL Holders

A forum proposal would pause pools in October, cancel the approved buyback, and pay at least $9 million to BAL holders who burn their tokens starting in May 2027.

September 4, 2026

How Ampersend Is Making It Safer to Manage Multiple AI Agents

Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node and a founding member of Ampersend, says a wallet-level control layer can block an AI agent from overspending or acting on a hallucination. He also notes that banks like BNY Mellon are already testing agentic commerce even though real transaction volume has not caught up to the hype yet.

Ethereum

September 15, 2026

Ethereum and Base Abandon a Shared Wallet Standard as Account-Abstraction Talks Break Down

The teams behind rival plans to build account abstraction into the base layer, Ethereum’s EIP-8141 and Base’s EIP-8130, have given up trying to converge, so wallet developers may end up supporting two transaction formats across the two networks.

September 9, 2026

Lubin Will Run MetaMask as Consensys Moves Its Protocol Work Into a New Company

The company behind much of Ethereum’s tooling will carry on as MetaMask under Joe Lubin, while its protocol and institutional infrastructure work, including Linea and Besu, moves into a newly formed company that takes the Consensys name.

September 8, 2026

Ethereum Foundation Targets a Quantum-Resistant Base Layer by December 2029

The EF’s Protocol cluster set a hard date for post-quantum Ethereum and graded 62 proposals for the fork that decides whether it holds.

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.

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 15, 2026

DOJ Says Two Robinhood Engineers Used Perpetual Futures to Trade Ahead of Its Crypto Listings

Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang bought perpetual futures on Hyperliquid just before Robinhood announced the same tokens would list on its platform, prosecutors allege, and each cleared more than $50,000.

September 15, 2026

Senate Blocks the Clarity Act as Democrats Cite Trump’s Crypto Conflicts

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed a Senate cloture vote on Tuesday, falling short of 60 votes as Democrats held out over ethics rules aimed at President Trump’s digital-asset holdings.

September 15, 2026

House Crypto Tax Bill Exempts $10 Fees but Drops the Staking Tax Break Industry Wanted

The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act reaches a Ways and Means vote on Wednesday, and it taxes mining and staking rewards as plain ordinary income with no option to defer.

September 15, 2026

DOJ Seeks Forfeiture of $61 Million in Crypto Tied to Iranian Oil Sales Allegedly Laundered Through Binance

Prosecutors say two Chinese firms used Binance accounts to move oil money to Iran, part of a network they allege has handled more than $1.5 billion.

Tech

September 11, 2026

Researchers Cut the Estimated Quantum Cost of a Key Step in Attacking Bitcoin and Ethereum by More Than Half

A crowdsourced challenge of more than 100 researchers and AI agents drove a quantum benchmark down 86% in two months, well below Google’s March figure.

September 10, 2026

Trezor Says Third-Party Email Breach Let Attackers Send Phishing From Its Own Domain

BitBox reported a matching campaign the same day, weeks after a shipping provider breach exposed tens of thousands of Trezor customer records.

September 7, 2026

How GenLayer Is Building a Court System for Disputes Between AI Agents

Albert Castellana and Arthur Hayes walk through how GenLayer resolves an AI agent’s dispute in minutes, for cents, without a single human judge involved.

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.

In Case You Missed it

September 10, 2026

The Chopping Block: FOMO’s Co-Founder Defends the Memecoin Trenches, Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP, and AMC vs Robinhood

FOMO co-founder Paul Erlanger joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to answer last week’s unc takes on memecoins: why a fully transparent social graph beats copy trading, how FOMO became the biggest app on Robinhood Chain, Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP token, the three-way launchpad war, AMC’s fight with Robinhood over tokenized stock, and the AI race to solve Navier-Stokes.

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.

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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