CryptoSlate

Trezor says the ShipMonk breach exposed another ~67,000 US customers after old shipping records remained in the vendor’s systems despite written deletion assurances.
No keys or funds were compromised. The leaked data links names and addresses to hardware-wallet purchases.

Solana’s first rent cut is live, reducing the SOL reserve required for account storage by about 9%.
If the full 90% reduction takes effect, stored account data would need to grow tenfold just to keep the same amount of SOL locked.

Compound’s $24M governance scare wasn’t a bug: 82% of the proposal’s support arrived in the final 34 minutes, and the vote passed under the rules.
Compound later added a veto. That’s the DAO tradeoff: an emergency brake means someone gets override power.

Fed researchers say payment stablecoins could eventually enter M1 or M2, but their full face value cannot simply be added.
If their reserves already sit in bank deposits or money funds counted in those measures, adding the tokens would count the same dollars twice.
The note is staff research, not Fed policy.

Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Sat, Sep 5 (24H)
📈 Biggest Gainers
AKEDO (AKE) +43.56%
MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) +40.56%
牛来 (Niu Lai) 牛来 +38.26%
📉 Biggest Losers

TerraClassicUSD (USTC) -7.34%
Maple Finance (SYRUP) -5.05%
Pump. fun (PUMP) -4.42%

AMC wants Robinhood to stop trading its AMC-linked token. Robinhood says it won’t.
The key detail: token holders do not own AMC shares. They hold debt issued by a Robinhood affiliate that tracks AMC’s economics, with no voting or direct shareholder rights.

Zcash broke $1,000 as Grayscale’s ZCSH ETF reached $414.7M in assets less than two weeks after launch.
Most of that AUM growth came from ZEC’s rally, not inflows. The fund’s holdings increased from 387,849 ZEC to 428,613.

A tax-saving DeFi loan can become someone else’s credit risk.
A Venus study found tax-sensitive borrowers traded less after new US reporting rules, and that lower activity was tied to more defaulted accounts and larger defaulted loan balances.

Wall Street has turned AI’s power demand into a $61B bond market, up from about $4B in 2020.
What investors are really underwriting is access to electricity: tenant rent pays the bonds, but power costs, available megawatts and future retrofit needs determine how much cash is left.

Bitcoin fell to $78,660 after US payrolls rose by 162,000 in August, more than five times the average monthly gain over the previous year.
The report weakens the labor-market case for keeping rates unchanged, putting more focus on Sept. 11 CPI before the Fed meets Sept. 15–16.

Robinhood Chain halted for at least 14 minutes after accounting for 78.5% of L2 revenue over the past 30 days.
The same day, AMC demanded Robinhood stop trading its AMC-linked token. Robinhood refused. Holders get price exposure, not ownership in AMC shares.

El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve grew by about 1,540 BTC over the past year, but the IMF says the increase it reviewed came from private donations, not government purchases.
Officials still say the country buys one BTC per day. The holdings increased; the source of the new coins remains unclear.

Solana v1 is not live on mainnet yet, but unprepared infrastructure can fail in two ways.
RPC readers may freeze at the first v1 transaction. Fee sponsors may keep running while silently failing to enforce compute and priority-fee limits.
This is a compatibility issue, not a consensus flaw.

Bitwise held 10.78M XRP and shorted futures against 10.51M, hedging 97.48% of the position.
The September futures traded 0.91% above spot, equivalent to a 14.57% annualized implied yield.
Bitwise was targeting the spread, not XRP upside.

Firo users and node operators have only hours to install a mandatory fix for a Spark flaw that could allow forged coins and inflate supply.
A researcher created about 200 FIRO in a controlled test. Firo found no evidence of other inflation.
The fork activates at block 1,371,000.

Bitcoin faces two Fed tests this month.
The FOMC decides rates Sept. 16 using jobs, PPI and CPI. Revised PCE data arrive Sept. 30, with one methodology change estimated to lower inflation by a few tenths.
The revision cannot change the decision, but it can reset rate expectations.

Kalshi must block Michigan users from sports event contracts under a preliminary injunction.
It must use a state-licensed geolocation provider or face $500,000 for each day of noncompliance.
The state order leaves the broader federal jurisdiction fight unresolved.

Japan’s 30-year bond auction cleared at 4.079%, but Metaplanet’s real test is shorter-term borrowing and refinancing.
Its existing debt terms are fixed. The pressure comes when it tries to fund its next round of Bitcoin purchases at scale.