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The CLARITY Act and the EU's MiCA framework solve the same problem in opposite ways. The CLARITY Act sorts crypto by asking who regulates it, splitting oversight between the SEC and the CFTC.
Dominic Williams is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded the DFINITY Foundation and serves as its President and Chief Scientist, building the Internet Computer Protocol (
Polkadot was called an "Ethereum killer" because it was built by Ethereum's former chief technology officer to solve the scaling problems Ethereum hadn't fixed yet, using a design of connecte
Toobit has been included in CoinGecko's 2026 State of Crypto Security Report, a study of how threats against digital asset platforms are shifting and what exchanges are doing to keep customer
Crypto spent years doing things backwards. Projects launched tokens before products. They raised money before proving demand. They built communities around roadmaps, whitepapers and promises,
Bitget Widens Reserve Coverage to 19 Assets Crypto exchange Bitget has significantly broadened its Proof of Reserves (PoR) framework, upgrading coverage from four cryptocurrencies to 19 major
InterLink Moves Toward Validator-Based Consensus The chairman of InterLink, @kv_interlink, has announced that the InterLink Blockchain mainnet will adopt a validator consensus system, with a
Senate Rejects CLARITY Act in Narrow Cloture Vote The U.S. Senate dealt a significant blow to the crypto industry on September 15, when the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to clear a
Avalanche's Snowman consensus delivers sub-second finality by having validators repeatedly query small, randomly chosen groups of their peers instead of contacting the entire network at once,
The CLARITY Act failed because the Senate rejected cloture on the motion to proceed by a vote of 49 to 50 on September 15, 2026, falling 11 votes short of the 60 needed to open floor debate,
The CLARITY Act missed its summer deadline because the Senate adjourned for its August recess without voting on the bill, leaving unresolved disputes over ethics rules, stablecoin rewards, an
Zcash holds a special place among crypto's original cypherpunks because it was built by people from that exact community to solve the exact problem they cared about most: private digital mone
