Senate Republicans have added crypto restrictions for top elected officials to the CLARITY Act, but Democratic resistance has pushed its 2026 passage odds down 15 percentage points from their July 21 peak. Summary Senate Republicans added crypto ethics rules, but Democrats still oppose the CLARITY Act’s enforcement plan. Polymarket passage odds fell 15 points as
Due to a Chromium vulnerability affecting all released versions of the Mist Browser Beta v0.9.3 and below, we are issuing this alert warning users not to browse untrusted websites with Mist Browser Beta at this time. Users of “Ethereum Wallet” desktop app are not affected. Affected configurations: Mist Browser Beta v0.9.3 and below Likelihood: Medium
In Bitcoin news today, Satsuma Technology raised £163.6M in August 2025 to build a Bitcoin treasury on the London Stock Exchange, and is now expected to return between £26.8M and £30M to shareholders after wind-down costs. That is roughly 18p on the pound at the low end, and the gap between those two numbers is
Bitcoin price has fallen more than 1% below $66,000 as renewed U.S.-Iran threats have lifted oil prices and increased expectations for another Federal Reserve rate hike this year. Summary Bitcoin price slipped below $66,000 as Trump’s latest Iran threat pressured risk assets. Rising oil prices pushed traders to increase bets on another Fed rate hike.
Ethereum has grown very rapidly in the last few months. Transaction volume on the blockchain has more than doubled, surpassing 10 transactions per second for days at a time. The number of new accounts created per day passed 100,000, and the number of nodes has increased despite rising system requirements. As attention and interest in
Republican senators met with Trump about it last week. By Monday, the Republicans had fixed on an accord. A White House official told CoinDesk on Monday that Trump had “agreed to the most comprehensive and wide-ranging ethics provision in history.” The legislation would give regulators a year to implement the new ethics constraints. It’s not
Coinbase has opened SUI staking with a one-token minimum and estimated annual rewards of 1.4% to 3.3% as Sui tests resistance near $0.78. Summary Coinbase has introduced SUI staking with estimated annual rewards of 1.4% to 3.3%. SUI is testing $0.78 resistance, with a confirmed breakout targeting roughly $0.91. Sui’s Hashi testnet lets over 25
The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in the network to process every
Bitcoin spent the past month in a holding pattern around $63,700, and VanEck’s latest Bitcoin ChainCheck reads the setup as a cautious pause rather than a bottom, with derivatives flashing fear, miner economics near multi-year lows, and long-term holders tightening their grip. The mid-July report frames the moment as consolidation, not recovery. Bitcoin closed July
Two developers went to prison-facing trials over four words in a 1970s-era framework: what counts as transmitting money. The answer decides whether writing DeFi code is a regulated financial business or protected publishing, and Section 604 of the CLARITY Act is Congress’s attempt to settle it. Summary A money transmitter is a business that accepts
