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Researchers say an alleged flaw in Liquid’s transaction-validation cache may explain how unbacked tokens were created and redeemed for real Bitcoin in an incident involving roughly $320 million. Deployment timing has also drawn scrutiny.
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau says criminal groups are storing cryptocurrency keys in rented private vaults, alongside cash, watches and passports. Decrypt reported the disclosure, which names no specific tokens or providers.
Hyperliquid is testing HIP-3, a feature that lets operators restrict access to their own markets through venue-specific allowlists. The proposal leaves existing permissionless markets unchanged, according to CryptoSlate.
Zcash gained 45% in one week, reaching its highest price since 2016 and pushing its market capitalization above $20 billion. The rally has continued since Grayscale’s Zcash Trust ETF began trading on Aug. 25.
Bitcoin’s week is centered on US CPI and PPI data, the Fed’s Sept. 16 rate decision and yen intervention developments. Cointelegraph says these events could shape whether BTC establishes $80,000 as support.
Solana’s Transaction v1 feature activates Wednesday, tripling transaction capacity so complex proofs and large multisignature operations can fit in one transaction. Services that read Solana data will need to update for compatibility.
DBS and Citi completed a weekend USD payment through Swift’s Digital Ledger using tokenized deposits. It is the second confirmed live use of Swift’s blockchain ledger as the network seeks to compete with always-on digital payment rails.
Vitalik Buterin estimates a 60% chance of a cryptography breakthrough involving three primitives. At least one, probably SNARKs, could arrive by decade-end and potentially weaken traditional Wall Street intermediaries.
CoinDesk says Bitcoin has shown a smaller reaction than gold when Treasury yields move. The Sept. 7 briefing also flags Chainlink and the MOVE index as related assets, without providing yield levels or price data.
A Coldcard-linked attacker has moved about $7.7 million in Bitcoin, nearly half of the third-wave haul. The funds were held across 293 vaults, which are reportedly being emptied from the largest balance downward.
CZ praised Kyrgyzstan’s KGST on September 5, while separate USDKG reporting points to institution-only direct redemption and UK sanctions against its issuer since May. The developments spotlight stablecoin exit-access risks.
A Coinbase-backed cross-chain project is shutting down after saying bridge fees cannot support always-on infrastructure. A planned burn of 303.3 million ROUTE tokens remains pending, CryptoSlate reported.
Purported white-hat hackers reportedly withdrew $320 million in Bitcoin from Liquid. Decrypt said Blockstream and the hackers are communicating through PGP-signed messages in Bitcoin transactions.
