September 22, 2026
Bitcoin

Is Clarity's delay a blessing in disguise?: State of Crypto

The crypto industry is angry and disappointed that the Senate is not holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act this month, but that isn’t the worst possible outcome. Source link

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Crypto

XRP Ledger retires 5 amendments, users unaffected

XRP Ledger developers have retired five long active protocol amendments in xrpld version 3.3.0, but the move does not remove their features or require XRP holders to take action. Summary XRPL 3.3.0 retires five long-active amendments, making their post-activation behavior permanent within the core protocol. Clawback remains available after retirement because only obsolete pre-amendment code

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Bitcoin

Senate Whip Barrasso Becomes Latest Lawmaker To Support Clarity Act

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso is the latest lawmaker to call for action on the crypto Clarity Act, though recent developments show work on the bill may be slowing.  Speaking to the Senate Thursday, Barrasso reminded lawmakers that the U.S. passed the first major digital asset bill last year, the Genius Act, and the same

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Crypto

Bitcoin BIP-110 split widens as fork freezes at 2 blocks

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 split widened further on Aug. 9, with the enforcing branch still unable to produce a third block hours after mandatory signaling began.  Summary BIP-110 remains frozen at block 961,633 while Bitcoin’s main chain has advanced through block 961,744. Current-period signaling stands at zero among 113 main-chain blocks mined since mandatory signaling began Saturday.

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Crypto

Coinbase drops 5 tokens but keeps withdrawals open

Coinbase has pulled trading support for five cryptocurrencies after giving holders a month to prepare. Summary Coinbase disabled trading for IDEX, LRC, OMNI, PIRATE and FIS across major trading platforms Friday. Customers can still access and withdraw affected tokens, while Coinbase has not announced conversions yet. Coinbase first announced the five suspensions July 7, giving

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Bitcoin

Tokenised Fixed-Income Products Are Becoming the New Source of Yield

Tokenised fixed-income products are gaining popularity as investors look for more legible sources of on-chain yield. Bitfinex Securities products ALTERNATIVE and USTBL are two prime examples of how fixed-income structures familiar from the world of traditional finance are increasingly being rebuilt on Bitcoin-native rails. Crypto has a yield legibility problem. Rates on some of the

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Crypto

IMF warns local stablecoins could speed dollar adoption

Domestic stablecoins designed to strengthen the role of national currencies could have an unintended effect: making it easier for users to move into digital dollars.  Summary IMF says local stablecoins could accelerate dollar-token adoption by making onchain currency conversion easier globally. Nearly 99% of stablecoins remain dollar-denominated, reinforcing network effects that local tokens struggle to

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Bitcoin

Crypto is going through a massive dot-com style shakeout as over 100 projects fold in 2026

“There were way too many general-purpose layer twos, which frankly don’t make sense as a product, because there’s no reason to have many, many versions of the same thing,” Ben Fisch, CEO of Espresso Systems, told CoinDesk. “We’re in a consolidation phase for general-purpose layer twos, not layer twos broadly.” Industry leaders argue the shakeout

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Crypto

Galaxy says Ethereum, Solana may rethink token inflation models

Galaxy Research Vice President Lucas Tcheyan said on Aug. 7 that Ethereum and Solana are confronting a similar policy question: how much token issuance is needed to pay for network security, and when does that security budget become more costly than useful? The debate is moving through proposal processes on both networks, but neither blockchain

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Bitcoin

Clarity Act Delayed Until September, Trump Praises Bitcoin

A vote on the long-awaited Clarity Act will be delayed until September as lawmakers go on recess today.  As first reported by POLITICO, citing comments from Majority Leader John Thune, the vote on the landmark bill will now have to wait until lawmakers return from August recess.  Bipartisan work has gone into the Clarity Act,

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