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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors mostly red, HYPE leads; BTC at $63.4k Bitcoin spot trading volume falls to 7-year low Goldman Sachs buys a BTC income ETF with $2.25B NEOS deal Solana came close to going down after routing bug Hyperliquid adds new function to handle tokenized stock functions like splits, dividends 🏛️ The SEC Moves to Bless the Onchain Stock Market Without CongressThe SEC is preparing to do on its own what Congress couldn’t.Per Bloomberg,…

Two New York men have been charged in an alleged synthetic identity scheme that used stolen Social Security numbers to obtain credit and debit cards and rack up roughly $2.3 million in losses. The father-and-son duo, Talib Hussain, 75, and Mirza Khan, 48, both of Pittsford, were named in a 19-count federal indictment accusing them of conspiracy to commit bank, wire and access device fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York. According to prosecutors, the scheme operated from around 2012 through July 23rd, 2024. Hussain, Khan…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Xora Finance has enabled native Stellar settlement on the XRP Ledger, creating a new link between the XLM and XRPL ecosystems without relying on wrapped assets. The company describes itself as a custodial neobank built on the XRP Ledger. Its new integration is designed to allow Stellar value to settle through XRPL infrastructure, creating another route for cross-ecosystem movement. This should not be framed as an official Ripple-Stellar partnership. The announcement comes from Xora Finance, an independent third-party project. Ripple Labs and the Stellar Development Foundation should…

In brief Fidelity filed a pre-effective amendment on Aug. 11 to let its spot Ethereum ETF, FETH, stake the Ethereum it holds. The fund would stake up to 100% of its holdings and pay rewards to investors as quarterly cash distributions. It follows Grayscale and BlackRock, which moved first after a Treasury and IRS safe harbor cleared the path. Fidelity has asked the SEC for permission to turn its spot Ethereum ETF into a yield-bearing product. The Boston asset manager filed a pre-effective amendment to its registration statement on Aug. 11, adding disclosure that the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH) will…

A former Indiana credit union manager has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after stealing more than $381,000 from customer accounts, including those belonging to elderly victims. Teresa Palmer, 55, of Columbus, Indiana, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud after prosecutors said she abused her position at Credit Union 1 to carry out hundreds of unauthorized transactions, says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana Palmer worked as a branch manager at a Credit Union 1 location in Columbus from 2014 until December 2022. Her position gave her access to customer accounts and…

In brief A security researcher found and exploited Zoom flaws using fewer than 20 AI prompts. The bugs affected Zoom’s annotation tool and could let an attacker run code on another participant’s device. Zoom fixed the vulnerabilities before they were publicly disclosed. AI is making it faster and easier to find serious security flaws. Now, a researcher says he used publicly available models to find vulnerabilities in the video chat platform Zoom and build a working attack in less than 24 hours.Calling it ‘Zoomsday’ in a report published Tuesday, Israeli cybersecurity firm A Security said a researcher used fewer than…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure BNB Chain has introduced BEP-675, a draft proposal aimed at improving network throughput by reducing block re-execution in the validator process. The proposal introduces blind signing for validator blocks, allowing builders to submit executed blocks directly. According to the proposal, the change can reduce validator execution time on the critical path from 125 milliseconds to 15 milliseconds, with testnet environments showing a potential doubling of throughput. That sounds technical, but the goal is simple: make block production more efficient without relying only on higher gas limits or…

In brief The Coldcard firmware exploit drained approximately 2,100 BTC, with losses estimated near $130 million across multiple attack waves. Onchain data from Checkonchain shows 233,000 BTC left long-term holder wallets in the days around the breach. Casa CEO Nick Neuman, citing actual customer conversations, says some of that 233,000 BTC came from Ledger and Trezor users—not Coldcard owners—who upgraded to multisig after watching the hack unfold. In the days after the worst hardware wallet exploit in Bitcoin’s recent history, Casa CEO Nick Neuman began counting more than just the BTC being drained from vulnerable Coldcard wallets.While attackers were draining…

In brief Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments in a deal worth up to $2.25 billion, adding about $30 billion in options-based income ETFs—including one of the market’s largest Bitcoin covered-call funds. The purchase gives Goldman a ready-made crypto income ETF business, a far faster path than its own April filing for a Bitcoin Premium ETF that some analysts saw as an attempt to leapfrog a similar BlackRock product. The move rides a boom in derivative-income ETFs—roughly $180 billion in assets and a 70%+ annual growth rate since 2021, per Morningstar—with crypto an increasingly prominent slice. Goldman Sachs is…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure National Bank of Canada has disclosed holdings in US-listed crypto investment products, including shares tied to an XRP ETF and several Bitcoin ETF positions. The disclosure came through a Form 13F filing covering holdings as of June 30, 2026. The bank reported 3,848 shares of Bitwise’s XRP ETF, valued at roughly $330,000, along with approximately $6.4 million in ProShares and Fidelity Bitcoin ETF exposure. The distinction here is important. This is ETF exposure, not direct custody of XRP or BTC. The bank is not being reported as…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared a comparison between Ethereum’s earlier roadmap and a newer L1 “Strawmap,” highlighting privacy and quantum safety as higher-priority research areas. The post points to several notable changes, including more emphasis on native privacy requirements, keyed nonces, shielded pools, quantum safety, and a move away from Verkle trees toward Poseidon binary trees. This should not be treated as a final Ethereum governance decision. The L1 Strawmap is a planning and research tool, not a hard fork commitment. Ethereum’s roadmap evolves through research,…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) recorded $79,073 of realized gains and $265,776 of unrealized appreciation on written options in its first operating period, helping offset losses on its Bitcoin holdings and shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT).BITA posted an $860,335 decrease in net assets from operations through June 30, its first quarterly filing shows. IBIT is BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin fund and one of BITA’s underlying investments. Related ReadingBlackRock’s new Bitcoin ETF offers monthly income, but caps gains when Bitcoin surgesThe Nasdaq-listed ETF offers monthly income potential through covered calls while capping part of the rally trade.…

In brief A team or researchers found that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all use a single global encryption key for AI reasoning tokens. By decoding 315,320 reasoning blocks scraped from public GitHub and Hugging Face repositories, the researchers recovered 182 credentials, including 62 live API keys, 33 passwords, and 30 personal email addresses. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google deployed server-side patches after responsible disclosure, but historical session logs already shared publicly remain decodable. Security researchers have found a way to read the encrypted “inner thoughts” of every major AI reasoning model—and uncovered 62 live API keys and 33 passwords buried in…

In brief Bill Swearingen’s noRecognition project generates patterns that stop camera software from classifying what it covers—people, faces, or cars. The patterns defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including the software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body cameras, and Clearview AI. The first public test came Friday at Def Con in Las Vegas: a 2009 Toyota Yaris wrapped in the pattern, driven past a Flock camera. Bill Swearingen spent the past year running one experiment over and over from his home in Kansas City, where he co-founded the SecKC security meetup. About 31 million tests later, he…

Bitcoin’s price has shown signs of stabilizing after a rough stretch, but even setting aside where prices go in the near term, asset manager Grayscale says adoption of the cryptocurrency over the medium and long run remains largely unchanged. The reason: continued, unsustainable growth in government debt as a factor that keeps inflation and currency-debasement risk elevated.  That backdrop, Grayscale argues, could push a widening range of investors toward scarce assets and alternative stores of value — a category where Bitcoin, with its fixed supply, is increasingly well positioned as a candidate. It added that the adoption of stablecoins and…