The CLARITY Act is dead...... Or is it?
A Landmark Bill Hits a Wall The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, widely considered the most consequential piece of crypto legislation in US history, has stalled in the Senate after a critica
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Crypto hacks top $768M in September, worst month of 2026
Crypto suffered its worst month of the year for hacks and exploits in September, with two blockchain security firms estimating losses at more than $766 million. PeckShield counted 55 major in
Chainlink powers data for new Open USD stablecoin
Open Standard has launched Open USD, or OUSD, across four blockchains with Chainlink named an official data oracle and more than $1 billion in launch liquidity committed by five founding part
Petrobras Deploys Cardano Apps to Verify Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Diesel
Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras says it has built two blockchain-based applications on Cardano aimed at improving how sustainability claims are traced across renewable fuels.
MetaMask Faces Security Incident
What MetaMask Has Disclosed MetaMask disclosed on October 1, 2026, that it is responding to a security incident affecting part of its infrastructure. The company confirmed no direct threat to
Polygon's new checkout takes any token and pays merchants in cash
@0xPolygon has expanded its Open Money Stack with a new Crypto Checkout feature, a "Pay with Crypto" button designed to sit directly inside a merchant's existing checkout flow. The addition m
Arc opens USDC buying, lending, and borrowing to apps
Three kits, one stablecoin-native stack @arc, Circle's layer-1 blockchain, has shipped three new developer kits designed to give apps a ready-made toolkit for buying, earning on, and borrowin
Who is William Herkelrath, the ex-Chainlink executive now running Algorand?
A New Leader for the Algorand Foundation The @AlgoFoundation has appointed William Herkelrath as chief executive officer. He formally took over on August 31, succeeding Staci Warden after alm
The CLARITY Act is dead...... Or is it?
A Landmark Bill Hits a Wall The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, widely considered the most consequential piece of crypto legislation in US history, has stalled in the Senate after a critica
XerisCoin Bets That Blockchain Security Belongs at the Base Layer
Written from scratch in Rust and approaching its mainnet launch, the patent-pending Layer 1 combines three consensus mechanisms, post-quantum signatures from its first block, and on-chain gua
OpenAI disrupts Moonshot-linked campaign as AI distillation war intensifies
OpenAI has leveled data-scraping allegations against its Chinese competitor, Moonshot AI. It connected a massive wave of probing activity, designed to decode how its models think through comp
MetaMask Exits Lido Validators After Infrastructure Security Incident
A security incident affecting part of MetaMask’s infrastructure has prompted the wallet provider to exit affected Ethereum validators from Lido while an investigation continues with external