The CLARITY Act could still be revived after Senator Thom Tillis moved to reconsider the failed cloture vote, though industry executives are divided over whether Congress has enough time left.
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Did crypto’s $20 Billion DeFi surge just get stolen by price inflation?
The central question behind DeFi’s latest rebound is whether protocols gained fresh deployable liquidity or simply more valuable collateral. A Sept. 15 capture of DeFiLlama’s chain data showed Ethereum’s dollar-denominated DeFi total value locked up 21.38% over 30 days and Solana’s up 22.94%. Stablecoin growth trailed far behind. Ethereum’s stablecoin market cap increased 0.68%, Solana’s …
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Why Japan’s 3.8% bond shock is quietly setting a trap for Bitcoin
Japan’s latest 20-year government bond auction signaled a higher price for long-term borrowing, not a collapse in demand. The average accepted yield rose to 3.856% on Tuesday, 15.8 basis points above the 3.698% average on Aug. 20. Competitive bid coverage improved slightly to about 4.01 times from 3.98 times, while the gap between the highest …
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Grayscale Sees US Crypto Policy Maturing Despite CLARITY Setback
Grayscale says the crypto industry is still making progress despite the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act to formal debate. The asset manager pointed to ongoing work at the SEC and CFTC while reaffirming its support for comprehensive digital asset rules. Grayscale Points to Regulatory Progress After Senate Vote Grayscale is looking beyond Congress …
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Ethiopia’s Bitcoin Mining Boom Just Ran Into a Water Problem
Ethiopia has cut electricity deliveries to bitcoin miners by 75%, leaving them with just 23% of contracted power after El Niño reduced reservoir inflows by roughly 20%. The twist is that miners had become one of Ethiopian Electric Power’s biggest customers, consuming roughly a third of its electricity and supplying about 35% of revenue. Now …
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Remember Limewire? A Meme Coin Just Bought the Legacy P2P Brand
In the interesting world of meme coins, surprising things happen all the time, and this week, the meme coin project Baby Doge announced that it acquired the peer-to-peer file-sharing brand Limewire. While the merger pairs a meme coin project and a legacy tech brand, the team did not disclose the purchase price. Baby Doge Buys …
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CLARITY Act Isn’t Dead, but Washington Is Running Out of Calendar
The CLARITY Act finally reached its first real Senate floor test Tuesday and promptly hit a wall. Senators voted 49-50 against cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, leaving the crypto market-structure bill 11 votes short of the 60 needed to advance. The bill isn’t technically dead, but with Congress racing toward its …
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Tokenized RWAs Hit $46.7B as Ethereum Holds Nearly Half the Market
The tokenized real-world asset market has expanded to $46.7 billion, up 17.4 times in three years, with growth spreading across credit funds, gold, stocks, and multiple blockchains. RWA Market Grows 17-Fold as Onchain Liquidity Deepens Tokenized real-world assets have crossed a new milestone, with the onchain market reaching $46.7 billion, as of Sept. 15, as …
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CLARITY Act Made 126 Concessions and Still Couldn’t Get 60 Votes
The Senate’s first full-floor test of comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation ended before the bill itself was even debated. On Sept. 15, senators failed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, after the opposition reached the point where 60 votes became mathematically impossible. Among those voting …
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Dinari Powers Bitcoin.com’s U.S. Launch of Tokenized Equities
The integration brings Dinari’s tokenized U.S. equities to eligible Bitcoin.com users in the United States and demonstrates a turnkey embedded model that can extend to broker-dealers and other financial platforms. Earlier this year, Dinari and Bitcoin.com announced a partnership to bring tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs directly into the Bitcoin.com Wallet. Today, that integration is …
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Senate Fails to Advance Crypto Clarity Act After Key Negotiators Vote No
The U.S. Senate has failed to advance the CLARITY Act. The measure failed to reach the necessary 60-vote threshold on a cloture motion that would have allowed debate on the legislation to move forward. Several key Democrats who had spent months negotiating the bill voted no. Veteran crypto and financial journalist Eleanor Terrett is tracking …
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Scammers Hit Wells Fargo Customer, Wipe Woman’s Accounts Down to $13
Scammers have drained a Wells Fargo customer’s accounts down to $13 after spoofing the bank’s real phone number on caller ID. Alisha Watford answered because the number on her screen matched the contact details in the bank’s app and website, reports WSFA. The Alabama resident says the caller claimed fraud had been flagged on her …
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BIS paper finds major gap in Bitcoin onchain transfer estimates
A BIS study found widely used crypto metrics can obscure economic activity, with measurement challenges spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins. Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements found that estimates of Bitcoin onchain transfer values can vary by as much as sixfold depending on how transactions are measured. The finding concerns onchain Bitcoin transfer values, …
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Crypto stocks slide after CLARITY Act fails to advance in Senate
Circle and Coinbase shares fell about 10% as the failed Senate vote weighed on crypto-linked equities, with Bitcoin miners and treasury companies also declining. Crypto-linked stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after the US Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, with shares of Circle and Coinbase dropping about 10%. Bitcoin treasury companies were also hit, …
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Massachusetts Debt Collector Barred After Alleged Car Seizures; Consumers Get $52,000,000 in Relief
Thousands are receiving millions in debt relief after Massachusetts prohibited a debt-buying shop from doing business in the state after accusing it of seizing cars to pressure payments. Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell says a consent judgment with Judgment Acquisitions Unlimited, Champion Funding Inc., and owner Andrew Metcalf delivers about $52 million in relief to more …