Blockstream on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/blockstream/Recent content in Blockstream on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:21:40 +0000Liquid Network Freezes After $320M Hack; Solana's Agent Micropayment Test Hits 1M/sechttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:21:40 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap Peg-out Authorization Key - while Liquid insists that key itself was not compromised. Blockstream paused the network and exchanges froze LBTC deposits. Meanwhile, Solana&rsquo;s new Payment Channels primitive for AI agent micropayments hit a claimed 1 million payments per second in benchmarking, with Alibaba Cloud live on day one. Coinbase is filing SEC and CFTC registrations to bring single stock perpetual futures onshore, BitGo is acquiring NYDIG&rsquo;s trading arm for $42.5M, and Harmony announced it is shutting down its L1 blockchain entirely. Bitcoin ETFs added $987M in weekly inflows.