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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SlowMist Links Bitget Hack to Zero-Day Exploit Used by Aug. 31
SlowMist says it has traced key parts of the compromise behind Bitget’s reported $388 million hot-wallet theft, including how attackers moved through multiple components tied to third-party s
XRP in Focus: What the Jay Clayton AI Czar Reports Could Mean
XRP is back in the spotlight, and the catalyst this time has nothing to do with price charts. Reports emerged that former SEC Chair Jay Clayton, the man who oversaw the agency when it filed i
Who is Denelle Dixon, the former Mozilla COO and current CEO of Stellar's foundation?
From Law Firms to Blockchain @DenelleDixon has led the @StellarOrg since May 2019, serving as CEO and executive director of the nonprofit that supports the Stellar network. Her path to the ro
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
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
Merchants can now accept stablecoin payments at checkout via Polygon
Polygon Opens Stablecoin Checkout to Merchants @0xPolygon has introduced a stablecoin payments layer that lets merchants accept digital currency at checkout and settle instantly in either fia
Injective Combines Stock Incentives Tokens Into Burn Protocol Process
Injective Adds Tokenized Stock Rewards to Its Burn Program @Injective has launched its first "Stockdrop," a new initiative that distributes tokenized stocks directly to users who participate
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
Avalanche block verification is now 100x faster
Avalanche (@avax) has rolled out one of the most significant performance upgrades in its history. Since the Helicon upgrade activated on mainnet on September 22, the network's C-Chain now ver
Compliance paperwork turned into a selling point on Cardano
Open Food Chain, a consortium partner of the Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF), is anchoring verified supply chain data on @Cardano and surfacing it to shoppers through a QR code printed on pr
Coinbase is building the financial account for Super Intelligence
@Coinbase is developing a financial architecture designed specifically for artificial superintelligence and autonomous AI agents, a structure that gives non-human entities access to a native