Daily Summary2026-09-26

Zano halted all economic activity after discovering an inflation bug in its Gateway Address asset-issuance mechanism, per the project's security statement, with a coordinated network upgrade and rollback of roughly 24 hours planned. Whether the bug was exploited, and the scale of any minting, was not stated. Zano's governance operates through private staker voting that outside parties cannot observe.

Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays completed two remortgage transactions using tokenised deposits, and HSBC with two others ran a person-to-person payment, in the world's first interbank transfers of bank-issued blockchain money, per Reuters via UK Finance. The trials, under the Great British Tokenised Deposit project, used programmable escrow and precede three digital bonds planned for Q1 2027. The Bank of England has said it prefers banks innovate with tokenised deposits over stablecoins.