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CLARITY Act News: Trump Ethics Fight Puts Senate Crypto Bill at Risk CLARITY Act news has taken a tense turn this week as Republican senators openly question whether the bipartisan crypto mar
Key Insights Crypto news today centered on Visa’s onchain credit push, Strategy, and Liquid. Liquid received 3,400 BTC back after roughly 4,000 BTC left its federation wallet. Strategy skippe
From a networking relic to a genuine upgrade Solana is set to triple the maximum size of a single on-chain transaction when Transaction V1 activates on mainnet on September 9. Anza plans to a
Key Points Former researcher Jacob Coxon departed Anthropic, accusing the firm and OpenAI of “racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives” Coxon issued warnings
Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, known formally as NU6.3, on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. The upgrade replaced Orchard, the network's main privacy pool, with a new pool call
Ripple locks XRP in time-based smart contracts on the XRP Ledger and releases a maximum of 1 billion XRP on the first day of each month, a supply schedule set up in December 2017 and enforced
The Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) now lets AI agents like Claude connect directly to on-chain applications through a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, currently in public preview. T
XDC Network is adopting the x402 payment standard through a new product called XDC AI, a marketplace that lets AI agents pay for digital services on their own using USDC, without a human appr
Web3 marketing spent the last cycle paying for attention: posts, yaps, impressions, and follower counts. In 2026 that model is being repriced. After platform rule changes in early 2026 restri
Confidential APT is a protocol-level privacy feature on the Aptos blockchain that encrypts how much APT a wallet holds and how much it sends, while keeping the sender's and receiver's wallet
Polkadot's treasury lets any DOT holder propose a funding request, put it to an on-chain vote, and get paid directly from a shared pool of network revenue, without needing approval from a com
The KelpDAO exploit forced LayerZero to end support for single-verifier security setups and rebuild its default configuration around multiple independent verifiers. On April 18, 2026, attacke
