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How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to pass in the Senate, preventing the establishment of a new regulatory framework for digital assets. This legislative defeat leaves the oversight of the cryptocurrency industry in the hands of existing financial regulators like the SEC and CFTC.
The failure of the Clarity Act maintains the current regulatory status quo, ensuring that the SEC and CFTC will continue to lead cryptocurrency oversight and enforcement.
Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations
Bitcoin surged 24.6% over five days in August, with short positions driving 89% of liquidated dollars. Glassnode and Bybit data show active leverage fell during the rally. The move highlights the role of short squeezes in Bitcoin's price dynamics.
Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.
Solana's Heartbeat Quickens: Block Times Fall 17% in Latest Speed Upgrade
The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.
Coinbase Files to List Single-Stock Perps on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has submitted a filing to the CFTC seeking approval to offer leveraged, single-stock perpetual contracts for major companies like Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia. If approved, these derivative products would provide US traders with round-the-clock market exposure without requiring direct ownership of the underlying equities.
Zcash Is Running—Devs Want to Make It Faster
Zcash developers plan a major upgrade that would reduce the time between blocks from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. The change also includes a quiet rewrite of the network’s security funding mechanism that will take effect after 2031. The update aims to improve transaction speed while ensuring long‑term network security.
Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Says Kevin O’Leary—But There’s a Quantum Catch
Kevin O'Leary believes Bitcoin could hit $1 million if crypto beats its quantum computing problem, and explained why he's ditching Ethereum.
XRP Surges 6.9% as Bitcoin Rebound Reopens Door to Golden Cross
XRP is roaring back as Bitcoin claws its way above $800,000 again, but the charts continue to give traders mixed signals.
CFTC Kicks Off Crypto Rulemaking, Bypassing a Stalled Congress
The agency submitted a prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets to the White House for review, signaling it will build a derivatives framework on its own authority after the Clarity Act's collapse.
Bitcoin Blasts Past $80K and a Fresh Short Squeeze Is On
Bitcoin just ripped 5.88% higher in a single session, tearing back toward its 2026 highs. The charts say the move is real, but they also say it's gotten ahead of itself.
Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Internal memos warned of a "doom loop" threatening the quality of the very models it was building with OpenAI.
Morning Minute: SEC Approves ‘Innovation Exemption’ Moving Tokenized Stocks Forward
It came just hours after S&P Global announced its acquisition of OpenZeppelin, as everything TradFi moves onchain.
UAE, Sweden Arrest Seven Over $7.1M Crypto Laundering Ring Linked to Contract Killings
Seven individuals in the UAE and Sweden were arrested for running a $7.1 million cryptocurrency laundering operation. Investigators traced the digital transactions and uncovered connections to organized crime and murder‑for‑hire activities. The case highlights how illicit funds can be moved through crypto networks.
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange Behind Iran's Bitcoin Tolls on Hormuz Ships
The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a cryptocurrency exchange alleged to have facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin transactions for Iran's Revolutionary Guards. According to authorities, these funds were funneled through the platform over a two-month period.
OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them
OpenAI's new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake "breach alerts," coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other.
Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes
Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.
Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left
SpaceX's AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there's nobody left to ask them.
Why Is Chipotle Now Working With the CIA-Funded Palantir?
Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built food safety dashboard after a summer of outbreaks, putting employee data in the hands of a company seeded by the CIA's venture arm.
CFTC Opens Door for Crypto Apps to Offer Regulated Derivatives Access
In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers.
OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem
Days after its disputed Navier-Stokes claim, OpenAI says it's made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize math problem—and won't say which one yet.
