🔷 Ethereum's 2027 Bogotá upgrade to include gasless transaction standard
Ethereum developers have moved EIP-8141, dubbed "Frame Transactions," from Considered for Inclusion to Scheduled status for the network's Bogotá upgrade, planned for 2027.
The proposal introduces native account abstraction directly into Ethereum's base layer, potentially removing the requirement for users to hold ETH to pay gas fees. By embedding this functionality at the protocol level, EIP-8141 aims to make sponsored and flexible transaction fee models a standard part of Ethereum's transaction system — without relying on separate smart contract workarounds like ERC-4337.
Bogotá is shaping up as a significant protocol milestone, with account abstraction now formally on the upgrade roadmap.
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🔐 Liquid Network Loses $320M in Bitcoin Security Breach
Blockstream's Liquid Network has been paused after roughly 4,000 BTC — worth approximately $320 million — was withdrawn from its Federation wallet on September 6, 2026, in what the network is investigating as a security incident.
The withdrawal was executed via the SideSwap PAK (Peg-out Authorisation Key), though Liquid confirmed the key itself was not compromised. The incident exposed a failure in the sidechain's peg-out process, leaving L-BTC backed by only 4.7% of the required Bitcoin. Blockstream has publicly told the party responsible that it is "safe to return the funds," while federation members investigate the underlying software flaw.
Exchanges moved to protect users as the sidechain was frozen. The breach has put Liquid's federated security model under scrutiny, though Bitcoin's base layer was unaffected.
🔐 Sality Botnet Dismantled After Eight Years of Crypto Theft
The U.S. Department of Justice, working with CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation, has dismantled the Sality botnet — a Russia-based malware network that stole Bitcoin and Ethereum for eight years by silently replacing copied wallet addresses with the attacker's own.
The joint operation, executed on August 31, 2026, involved authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Investigators turned Sality's own peer-to-peer architecture against itself, manipulating peer lists and taking down payload URLs to cut more than 15,000 infected machines off from their operators. Dormant wallets linked to the operation held an estimated $1.5 million in stolen crypto.
Sality first emerged in 2003 as a file-infecting virus, though its crypto-theft campaign ran for approximately eight years before being disrupted.
🔐 Ukraine dismantles crypto scam with $1M monthly turnover
Ukrainian police have shut down a network of fake cryptocurrency investment platforms that allegedly stole up to $1 million per month from victims across more than 20 countries.
The National Police of Ukraine identified 62 victims and say over 46 Ukrainian nationals participated in the alleged operation. The scheme used fraudulent crypto investment platforms to drain funds from users internationally.
🪙 SEC moves signal shift to 24/7 on-chain equity markets
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is advancing on two fronts that could reshape traditional market infrastructure: preparing for round-the-clock equity trading and proposing blockchain-compatible transfer-agent rules.
The dual push signals growing regulatory openness to always-on markets and tokenized securities settlement — concepts long championed by the crypto and DeFi sectors. Blockchain-ready transfer-agent rules would directly affect how securities ownership is recorded and transferred, a function that on-chain infrastructure is increasingly positioned to fulfill.
The moves come as tokenization of real-world assets has emerged as one of the fastest-growing narratives in crypto, with major institutions exploring on-chain settlement for equities, bonds and funds.
An unidentified wallet transferred $221,226,193 in USDC directly to Coinbase in a single on-chain transaction, drawing attention from market observers.
The origin of the funds and the purpose of the transfer have not been identified. Large stablecoin deposits to major exchanges are typically associated with institutional activity, though no entity has been linked to this move.