$115M drained from wallets that never went online
Galaxy Research pins Coldcard seed-flaw losses at $115M through Aug 13, 2026 — causes and affected models.
UBS's IBIT call bet jumped 24x in a single quarter
UBS's Q2 2026 13F shows IBIT call options up 24-fold to $65M, while its outright bitcoin ETF stake rose just 12%.
MSCI's delisting test just caught a uranium miner, not crypto
MSCI's August 2026 consultation could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from the ACWI IMI over non-operating asset rules.
A single router config took Solana 86% of the way to a halt
A TeraSwitch BGP fault knocked 28.83% of staked SOL offline — 4.51 points from Solana's halt threshold.
72 bits, not 128: the entropy gap draining Coldcard wallets
Coinkite's advisory: effective entropy fell to ~72 bits, letting attackers brute-force seeds offline.
One leaked file was enough to sweep a Lightning node
BTCPay Server's LND macaroon leak let attackers drain Lightning channels before the August 2026 patch (v2.4.2).
One Ethereum proposal would cut staking rewards 48%
EIP-8363 would burn validator rewards as staked ETH rises, cutting yield up to 48% — mechanism and backlash explained.
RWA volume beat bitcoin on Hyperliquid — the buyback shrank
Hyperliquid RWA perps overtook bitcoin in 2026, but HIP-3 fee-sharing cut HYPE buyback revenue 43%.
DEX just hit a record 24% of CEX volume — for the wrong reason
DEX spot volume hit 24% of CEX volume in July 2026, the highest ratio on record, per The Block and DefiLlama.
HYPE ETFs led every non-BTC fund in June. Then: $0 days.
JPMorgan says HYPE ETF inflows stalled in August 2026 after leading non-BTC funds, as competition mounts.
Some Coldcard seeds have just 40 bits of randomness, not 128
Coldcard hardware wallets generated Bitcoin seeds with as few as 40 bits of entropy instead of 128, a 2021 RNG flaw.
Solana's burn rate could jump 14x — but SOL still won't go
SGP-0003 (SIMD-0553 + SIMD-0550) would raise daily SOL burns from ~650 to 9,000 SOL and double the disinflation rate —