Research
Macro
Fed inflation trap threatens Bitcoin below $80k as $100 oil blindsides Friday’s CPI report
Brent touched $99.46 after reported Saudi energy disruptions, while Friday's CPI measures August prices.
Wallets
Tether CEO wants AI agents to hold USDT, but developers are left on the hook for overspending
Tether’s WDK design separates wallet access from payment approval, leaving developers to enforce the limits users expect.
Crime
Active crypto address “copy and paste attack” threatens users even after major malware cleanup cut off hackers
CrowdStrike says the Aug. 31 disruption blocked new payload delivery while installed malware can still swap cryptocurrency payment addresses.
Mining
Bitcoin miner burns through millions in BTC to buy compute, but new coins are not returning to treasury
Cloud customers accounted for about 74% of August’s production increase, while company holdings recovered only part of July’s decline.
Governance
Ethereum supply battle is forcing a choice between high staking yields and the value of your ETH
EF Protocol wants a broader issuance debate, while unchanged rewards preserve validator income and dilution for unstaked holders.
Outage
Liquid recovers 3,400 BTC as hacker asks “is that ok?” after pocketing $47 million in Bitcoin
The Sept. 7 return replenished the federation wallet, but Blockstream still listed a public bridge outage the following morning.
Research
Ethereum arbitrage study reveals builders receive $5 for every $1 burned by the network
Bitquery's 30-day sample separates trading proceeds from ETH supply reduction, while builders' onward payments leave final profit shares unresolved.
Lending
DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked
Anthias projects lower monthly debt accrual under unchanged market conditions, while reserve transfers and supplier cash access remain unverified.
Analysis
Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network
A live reading is already 18, showing why institutions need more than one decentralization metric.
Regulation
Australia cancels registration of crypto provider GetCoins following customer scam complaints
The annual tally spans remittance and virtual asset providers, while AUSTRAC says GetCoins was allegedly exploited by investment scams.
Privacy
Ethereum’s privacy push hits a numbers problem: one proof needs nearly twice the proposed gas allowance
An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance.
Lending
XRP lending model leaves depositors with 90% of a bad loan’s loss despite reserves twice its size
With the same reserve and cover rates, one modeled default leaves 90,000 tokens of vault loss; ten smaller loans leave 4,500.
