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Bitcoin researchers have proposed a system for private transfers directly on the network without requiring a soft fork or changes to its consensus rules.The Sept. 24 paper from [[alloc] init] researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin introduces Shielded Bitcoin, a metaprotocol designed to conceal transaction amounts, senders, recipients, and links between transfers while publishing its protocol data through Bitcoin mainnet.The design adapts techniques pioneered by Zcash, including encrypted notes, public nullifiers and zero-knowledge proofs, but does not introduce a separate blockchain. Bitcoin instead provides the publication and ordering layer from which participants reconstruct the private transaction state.That would extend…

A flaw in older Lightning Terminal software could mark a Bitcoin Lightning invoice paid after the payment was cancelled and returned to its sender, Lightning Labs disclosed on Sept. 21, 2026.A merchant relying on that invoice status could release goods or credit without receiving funds. The company describes that risk but gives no tally of actual merchant losses.The issue was a mismatch between the software’s invoice record and the payment’s outcome. A Lightning payment uses a hashed time-locked contract (HTLC) to carry funds.In this case, the HTLC was canceled on the network and returned to the sender, while the receiving…

New York has sued Polymarket, alleging its US prediction market is an unlicensed gambling business operating across the state.On Sept. 24, Attorney General Letitia James asked a New York state court to stop QCX LLC, which operates as Polymarket US, from offering event contracts without a state gaming license and to order restitution, disgorgement, and potentially substantial penalties. The petition covers contracts tied to sports, elections, culture, and other events.The action targets a company that is also regulated at the federal level. QCX has been a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-designated contract market since July 2025, placing the lawsuit within…

Bitget has suspended withdrawals after unauthorized transfers drained about $351.6 million from a limited number of its hot and warm wallets.The crypto exchange detected the transfers at 18:31 UTC on Sept. 24 and activated its emergency response procedures within minutes, Chief Executive Officer Gracy Chen said. Bitget’s cold wallets and most assets held on the platform were unaffected.Fifteen transfers drained nearly $192 million across seven assets, with Ethereum accounting for the largest share at 44.4%. Source: BubblemapsChen said customer balances remain accurate and the losses are covered by Bitget’s User Protection Fund, which currently holds more than $464 million. Deposits…

TRON has surpassed $30 trillion in lifetime transaction volume as its USDT-heavy network pushes deeper into payments and regulated finance.More than $94 billion of Tether’s USDT now circulates on TRON, the largest supply on any blockchain, TRON DAO said Sept. 24. The network has processed about $6 trillion of USDT transfers so far in 2026, averaging roughly $25 billion a day, citing Token Terminal data.The figures underscore how closely TRON’s growth has become tied to dollar-denominated transfers. The blockchain has recorded more than 15 billion transactions across 405 million accounts since launch, while payment-card activity is beginning to extend that…

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to as much as 12 years in prison for stealing nearly $16 million from Coinbase users.On Sept. 23, Ronald Spektor, 23, received a four-to-12-year sentence after pleading guilty to a 31-count indictment stemming from a fake customer-support operation that targeted about 100 people across the US, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.Prosecutors said Spektor posed as a Coinbase representative and warned users that hackers were threatening their accounts. Victims were then instructed to move their crypto to wallets presented as secure but secretly accessible to Spektor.The scheme generated about $15.944 million in losses, with…

NYSE is adding Blockchain.com as a prospective gateway to its planned round-the-clock market for tokenized US stocks.Blockchain.com and NYSE Group signed a memorandum of understanding that could give the crypto platform’s users access to US-listed shares and exchange-traded funds on NYSE’s planned digital trading venue, subject to regulatory approval, the companies said Sept. 23. The agreement also establishes a two-way market-data relationship spanning stocks and crypto.The deal gives NYSE another potential distribution channel into a crypto-native customer base before its tokenized securities market opens. Blockchain.com says it has more than 44 million confirmed accounts and already distributes tokenized US equities…

An OpenAI research agent bypassed security blocks and accessed restricted Australian government files while trying to retrieve public health statistics.On Sept. 24, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the agent entered nonpublic areas of a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal on June 18 after repeated attempts to obtain public medicine-spending data were blocked. The system also wrote files to an internal server while pursuing the task, an action investigators are still examining.The breach has prompted a federal task force and a forensic investigation aided by the Australian Signals Directorate, escalating a routine research exercise into a test of how governments respond…

The crypto industry lost $2.1 trillion in market value during the past year, yet measured on-chain economic activity declined just 1.6% as stablecoin use expanded.The global crypto economy generated about $9.4 trillion in activity during the 12 months through June 30, down from $9.5 trillion a year earlier, according to Chainalysis’s 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index published Sept. 23. That comparatively small contraction came as total crypto market capitalization fell about 50% during the period.Global Crypto Economic Activity (Source: Chainalysis)The divergence marks a shift in where activity occurs during market downturns. Value received by exchanges, decentralized-finance protocols and other crypto…

Coinbase’s new fixed-rate Bitcoin-backed USDC loans give borrowers a set repayment date, but the deadline creates a liquidation risk separate from a falling Bitcoin price. If the debt remains unpaid after maturity, a healthy collateral position can still be liquidated. Morpho announced the offer on September 22, 2026, with the rate and repayment date fixed from the outset.The loans use Morpho Midnight, the fixed-rate lending protocol beneath Coinbase’s new offer. They sit alongside Coinbase’s variable-rate loans, which have no set due date. Before a fixed-rate borrower confirms a loan, Coinbase displays an indicative rate and sets the final rate at…