https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/crypto/Recent content in Crypto on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:15:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-05-crypto/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:15:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-05-crypto/The SEC under Chair Paul Atkins has proposed a dedicated crypto custody framework for registered investment advisers and funds, formally permitting self-custody under specific conditions and recognizing state trust companies as qualified custodians. Meanwhile, Blast L2 announced its complete shutdown due to operating costs outpacing L2 revenue, locking user balances into a multi-step withdrawal process through October 26. In private DeFi and agent tooling, Galactica launched zk-shielded x402 payments on Aztec, and Robinhood flagged that the SEC&rsquo;s innovation exemption caps are too restrictive for its international stock token operations.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-crypto/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:21:45 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-crypto/The Senate&rsquo;s failure to pass the Clarity Act cleared the way for sudden regulatory relief, including a five-year SEC exemption for tokenized equities and safe-harbor guidance on token buybacks. Stripe made Open USD its default stablecoin across card issuance rails on Tempo, while Base deployed its Cobalt hard fork featuring dormant conditional transactions and institutional asset controls. Cross-border banking moves forward as Lloyds and Visa pilot 24/7 stablecoin settlement, even as Dune data shows 99.994% of tokenized Treasury cash sits completely idle.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-crypto/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:12:51 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-crypto/Kalshi informed the CFTC it will shut down its Volume Incentive Program no earlier than October 13 following allegations that repeated $5,500 prints artificially inflated ether perpetual volumes by over $5 billion. Robinhood is bringing perpetual futures to US users with up to 10x leverage backed by Bitstamp alongside 24/7 weekend equity trading. Five years after making Bitcoin legal tender, El Salvador is rolling out a digital dollar app on Coinbase&rsquo;s Base network to capture remittances. Stripe packaged a modular stablecoin stack spanning issuance, Bridge orchestration, and Privy wallets.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-30-crypto/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:20:37 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-30-crypto/The SEC ruled that decentralized token buybacks don&rsquo;t trigger Howey classification, a direct response to a16z&rsquo;s Miles Jennings and a green light for on-chain buyback programs. Coinbase became the second crypto exchange to win CFTC derivatives clearing approval, completing its regulated stack. Chainlink&rsquo;s CCIP 2.0 with Ethlabs&rsquo; FCR cut cross-chain confirmations from 13 minutes to 12-24 seconds. Proof launched a testnet for event-contingent derivatives, and a new paper proposes Zcash-style private transfers on Bitcoin L1 via OP_RETURN.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-29-crypto/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:17:15 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-29-crypto/Bitget begins phased withdrawal resumption after a September 24 exploit drained $388 million, the largest crypto theft this year, with BTC and ETH back online today and all assets restored by October 2. Strategy proposes daily dividend accrual for its four preferred stocks to push STRC back toward $100, a timing-only change leaving rates untouched. Vitalik Buterin outlines a shift from blockchain to a &ldquo;cryptographic world computer&rdquo; with ZK-proofs at the base layer. Solana starts testing Alpenglow, a consensus upgrade cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. Circle&rsquo;s Tazapay acquisition looks like a USDC off-ramp play, with on-chain redemptions up 3x in September.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-28-crypto/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:19:10 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-28-crypto/The Sixth Circuit unanimously ruled against Kalshi, upholding Ohio&rsquo;s sports betting ban and vacating the injunction against Tennessee, leaving the prediction market operator 1-for-3 across circuit courts. New Jersey has already petitioned the Supreme Court, setting up a potential jurisdictional showdown. Meanwhile, US spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.4 billion for the week ending September 25, their best haul since October 2025, flipping 2026 net flows positive after sitting $5.8 billion in the red as recently as mid-July. Paradigm also open-sourced Solar, a Solidity compiler that beats Solady&rsquo;s gas benchmarks without hand-written assembly, and Paxos launched PAXGy, a yield-bearing gold token with major launch partners.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-25-crypto/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:18:23 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-25-crypto/Canada&rsquo;s six largest banks are jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, a project that follows regulators clarifying these deposits are not legally distinct from traditional ones. The CFTC warned prediction contracts carry heightened manipulation risk, while Circle opened Bitcoin-backed USDC borrowing to Mint clients through Morpho, a market that grew 10x in five days. CME is adding Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, and Tether has walked away from Europe&rsquo;s MiCA framework over a 60% bank-deposit reserve rule.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-24-crypto/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:18:12 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-24-crypto/Canada&rsquo;s six largest banks are jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, following a regulatory ruling that treats tokenized deposits as legally identical to traditional ones. The CFTC is warning that prediction markets on whether someone will &ldquo;mention&rdquo; a word carry manipulation risk. Circle&rsquo;s Bitcoin-backed USDC lending market grew 10x in five days, to $14.3 million. Tether has abandoned MiCA compliance in Europe over a 60% bank-reserve rule, and CME is adding Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-23-crypto/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:20:52 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-23-crypto/Bernstein forecasts prediction market volume exploding from $410 billion in 2026 to $10 trillion by 2035, with financial assets overtaking sports as the dominant category. Fairshake drops $30 million on the Ohio Senate race days after the Clarity Act failed. Coinbase for Agents adds US equities with the x402 micropayment protocol, while Trueo migrates off Base to Ethereum mainnet. Spot bitcoin ETFs see their biggest daily inflow in 11 months at nearly $1 billion.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-22-crypto/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:14:42 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-22-crypto/A crypto researcher alleges Kalshi faked up to 58% of its ETH perpetual volume on four separate days, with a single $5,500 trade size dominating the books. Polymarket&rsquo;s CEO pushed growth over compliance, dropped a money-laundering rule, and rejected 80% of deposits as fraud before a $10 million attack. Coinbase opens IPO allocations to US customers via Apex, Hyperliquid&rsquo;s HYPE hits an all-time high of $90.92 on new lending, and the SEC&rsquo;s tokenized stock exemption turns out to be far narrower than the market assumed.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-21-crypto/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:19:31 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-21-crypto/The NYSE has spent the past year testing Avalanche technology for its tokenized equities platform, with Ava Labs President Charley Cooper confirming a &ldquo;close working relationship&rdquo; with parent company ICE, though no final settlement chain has been named. Visa is closing the memecoin rewards loophole after an investigation revealed Crossmint was processing memecoin purchases under the &ldquo;digital media&rdquo; merchant code, with the grace period ending next week. In a first, an LLM inference run was executed entirely as onchain Solana transactions, with model weights and attention calculations processed as standard SVM program calls. S&amp;P Global has acquired OpenZeppelin, extending its ratings infrastructure into blockchain security after processing over $37 trillion in cumulative transactions. Post-quantum security is now a procurement issue, with Google setting a 2029 readiness target.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-crypto/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:18:11 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-crypto/The House Financial Services Committee advanced the American Reserve Modernization Act, which would codify Trump&rsquo;s 2025 executive order creating a strategic bitcoin reserve and direct Treasury to build a secure storage facility. The SEC granted a 5-year Innovation Exemption for Tokenized Securities Venues, opening compliant Uniswap v4 permissioned pools for tokenized equity trading. Column launched stablecoin, card, and banking products to challenge Erebor, while Kraken&rsquo;s parent Payward will bring Hyperliquid perps to US retail via HIP-3. Allium&rsquo;s new report shows stablecoin payments grew 42% to $401B through August against 6% supply growth.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-17-crypto/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:15:25 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-17-crypto/Bybit has reportedly opened registration to Chinese users, a massive reversal of its long-standing policy that could pull in tens of millions of new traders, while two Robinhood engineers face up to 30 years in prison for insider trading on Hyperliquid using nonpublic listing info. Circle launched Arc&rsquo;s mainnet with sub-second finality and USDC gas, backed by BlackRock and Visa as validators. Meanwhile, a six-month audit of Ethereum L1 gas shows plain ETH transfers now consume 1.6x more gas than all Uniswap activity, and a review of 84,163 Uniswap v4 hooks found only 19.4% safe, with 54.2% classified as malicious. X also rolled out its Cashtag Partner Program, turning social posts into brokerage trade entry points.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-16-crypto/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:20:24 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-16-crypto/The Senate blocked the Clarity Act in a stunning cloture vote, killing the crypto industry&rsquo;s best shot at a comprehensive market structure framework and leaving enforcement-by-guidance in place. The DOJ charged two Robinhood engineers with front-running token listing announcements on Hyperliquid, the first such case involving perpetuals rather than spot tokens. The EU&rsquo;s Cyber Resilience Act took effect, forcing wallet makers to report actively exploited bugs within 24 hours. Onchain data shows Trump&rsquo;s $800M WLFI stake is now locked in a vesting contract until May 2028, and DeFi TVL hit a 2.5-year low at $42B, even below FTX-collapse levels.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-15-crypto/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:15:38 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-15-crypto/Senate Republicans released the final draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, incorporating 126 Democrat-requested changes and sending Polymarket odds of passage this year from 22% to 32%. Mexican authorities raided a hidden crypto mining operation suspected of power theft and money laundering. Robinhood Chain&rsquo;s daily gas revenue collapsed 82.6% in six days, and Germany proposed a 25% flat tax on crypto gains starting in 2028. Bitcoin Depot&rsquo;s bankrupt ATM business sold a quarter of its fleet for under $1 million.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-crypto/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:19:41 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-crypto/Nasdaq Ventures dropped $100 million into Kraken parent Payward at a $21 billion valuation, then agreed to let Kraken distribute Nasdaq-tokenized stocks with real voting rights under a framework targeting a Q2 2027 launch. Coinbase and Moov are wiring stablecoin rails into 1,000+ US community banks ahead of a Senate CLARITY Act vote, while MoneyGram launched a stablecoin-backed Visa card in Colombia. AI bots now make up roughly 60% of HTTP requests on Cloudflare&rsquo;s network, breaking the ad-supported web economy and pushing per-request micropayment rails. EtherFi is rolling out a three-tier timelock system for its Cash contracts, and Caroline Ellison has taken a full-time job at EA funding platform Manifund.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-11-crypto/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:24:44 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-11-crypto/MetaMask spun out as an independent company and launched Transaction Shield, an opt-in feature covering up to $10,000 per month for deemed-safe transactions, while also adding perpetuals trading on mobile. Hunter Biden airdropped 4,276 LAPTOP tokens on Base to Substack subscribers, briefly worth $1.3 million per wallet before crashing over 99% to near $2, leaving over 80% of the 11,500+ buyers in the red. Coinbase launched Bazaar MCP, a discovery marketplace for AI agents to find, price, and pay for tools via x402. Solana&rsquo;s SIMD 96 went live, shifting inflation to a dynamic rate based on staking ratios, with SIMD 123 on priority fee sharing months away.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-crypto/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:49:04 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-10-crypto/Tokenized stocks moved $1 billion in volume while US markets were shut for Labor Day, nearly matching Friday&rsquo;s $1.02 billion across 42 tokens on four platforms. Jack Dorsey&rsquo;s Block filed for a federal bank charter as the OCC has approved 21 of 40 de novo applications since 2025. A 22-year-old pleaded guilty to leading a $245M crypto theft ring. Visa revealed 160+ stablecoin card programs with 200% YoY payment growth and a $2.5B onchain credit facility. Ethereum researchers proposed EIP-8250 keyed nonces to slash storage from 64 bytes to 1-2 bytes.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-09-crypto/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:18:50 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-09-crypto/Visa&rsquo;s stablecoin settlement volume topped a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year-over-year, with 160+ card programs live and Credit Coop&rsquo;s smart-contract lending cutting borrowing costs up to 30%. Ethereum Foundation set a firm December 2029 deadline for quantum resistance across its L1, planning for &ldquo;Q-day&rdquo; as early as 2030. Robinhood Chain generated ~$33 million in fees over 15 days, beating Solana and BNB Chain combined, with Bernstein reiterating a $160 price target. A third attack wave on Coldcard users saw 45% of stolen Bitcoin moved, evading interdiction. Hunter Biden&rsquo;s $LAPTOP memecoin launches on Base September 9 with 20% of supply earmarked for $TRUMP losers.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-08-crypto/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:15:40 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-08-crypto/DBS and Citi completed a weekend cross-border USD payment using tokenized deposits on Swift&rsquo;s Digital Ledger, cutting settlement from two days to minutes. Ethereum researchers proposed a PeerDAS architecture that slashes blob reconstruction CPU time from 5.18 seconds to 40 milliseconds per slot. Wyoming&rsquo;s stablecoin went live with Chainlink as its verification layer, but a $1 million market cap and $160 daily volume show it&rsquo;s still a rounding error. A Coldcard exploit moved 45% of its stolen bitcoin through CoinJoin, and 600 BTC from Satoshi-era wallets woke after 16 years.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:21:40 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap Peg-out Authorization Key - while Liquid insists that key itself was not compromised. Blockstream paused the network and exchanges froze LBTC deposits. Meanwhile, Solana&rsquo;s new Payment Channels primitive for AI agent micropayments hit a claimed 1 million payments per second in benchmarking, with Alibaba Cloud live on day one. Coinbase is filing SEC and CFTC registrations to bring single stock perpetual futures onshore, BitGo is acquiring NYDIG&rsquo;s trading arm for $42.5M, and Harmony announced it is shutting down its L1 blockchain entirely. Bitcoin ETFs added $987M in weekly inflows.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-crypto/Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:11:52 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-crypto/New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit win for Kalshi in a 332-page gambling-jurisdiction fight. Bitcoin&rsquo;s 90-day correlation with gold hit a six-year high as BTC jumped 22.4% in a week, then pulled back to $77,600. Hey Anon shipped Build 3.0, a full DeFAI rebuild with modular protocol permissions, while Base opened a builder call for tokenized stocks. Wintermute framed RWAs as crypto&rsquo;s next liquidity channel with peak inflows still 2-3 years out, and a separate piece argued stablecoins alone won&rsquo;t fix 6.36% remittance fees.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-03-crypto/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:10:06 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-03-crypto/Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and a consortium of US financial institutions are jointly issuing a dollar-backed stablecoin targeting 2027, directly challenging USDT and USDC&rsquo;s market dominance. The move comes as federal stablecoin legislation provides clearer institutional on-ramps, while Arbitrum&rsquo;s ARB token surged 25% on Robinhood Chain fees generating roughly $192K daily for the DAO. Separately, Ethena Pay launched a neobank offering 6% savings and 5% cashback, B2B stablecoin payment flows are revealed to be far smaller than headline figures at $390B, and Strategy sold 7,000 BTC at $60K-$65K to fund dividends before buying back near $80K.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-crypto/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:21:35 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-02-crypto/Binance is launching physically settled options on 1,000+ US stocks and ETFs, doubling down on equity derivatives after TradFi perpetual volume hit $433.4B in August - a 15x jump since January, with equity-linked perps at $342.9B, up from $410.9M. Meanwhile, Strategy spent $635M buying back STRC but the perpetual preferred still trades at a 2.66% discount to par, and Solana validators voted to double disinflation, pulling terminal inflation forward by three years. A memecoin called BONER has cornered 53% of the tokenized Hims &amp; Hers float on Robinhood Chain, driving the token 4.5x above the real share price.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-01-crypto/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:10:36 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-01-crypto/Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7M, lifting total holdings to 845,050 BTC. ICE partnered with tZERO on tokenized securities infrastructure. A researcher defended Poseidon2b against a new algebraic attack. Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base. A Public Citizen report found investors at least $4.7B underwater across Trump crypto ventures.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-crypto/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:12:13 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-crypto/Fogo&rsquo;s Layer 1 blockchain halted mainnet after an attacker drained 400M FOGO tokens worth ~$3M - roughly 10% of the circulating supply - ending the network&rsquo;s claim of 100% uptime since its January launch. The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF crossed $1B AUM in just 10 months, holding more than half of all Solana ETF assets, while Bybit is launching 24/7 perpetual options on SpaceX and Nvidia starting September 17. Meanwhile, x402 processed 169M payments in its first year with native integrations from AWS, CloudFront, Cloudflare, and Google, and Hyperliquid Strategies disclosed a $1.9B HYPE treasury with zero debt.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:29:15 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/Bitcoin has rallied into a stacked $81,000-$86,000 supply zone, with analysts pointing to a close above $83,300 on continued ETF inflows as the trigger that could reopen the road to January&rsquo;s highs. Lending protocol Moonwell halted Base markets after an attacker drained roughly $8.7M by borrowing real cbBTC against a manipulated MAMO collateral price. Revolut, with 80M users, launched a euro-pegged stablecoin EURR on Ethereum mainnet, aiming at the same playbook PayPal used with PYUSD. LayerZero is building an institutional exchange with Citadel Securities, DTCC, and ICE, and new research shows Uniswap v3&rsquo;s many fee-tier pools are functionally one pool: the top venue captures 96.3% of capacity.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/Ethereum&rsquo;s protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting idle capital and settlement costs for DeFi applications. Shinhan Financial Group signed with Visa to build Korea-specific stablecoin infrastructure, combining banking, card, and payment rails into a single institutional deployment. Meanwhile, EIP-8130 emerged as the preferred account abstraction path for EVM rollups, with Base targeting a 2x per-transaction cost reduction in its upcoming Cobalt upgrade.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Coinbase went live with tokenized NVDA, AAPL, META and GOOGL on Base under the B20 standard, posting $4.55M in day-one onchain value and $10.8M in 24-hour volume across ~50 protocols. AI agents are now a distinct crypto user cohort paying in stablecoins, with Coinbase calling it the &ldquo;Napster era&rdquo; of machine commerce. Kinetiq is launching Elysium, an L2 that drops USDC gas for HYPE and targets block-time parity with Hyperliquid&rsquo;s HyperCore. Gauntlet detailed its risk-aware Aria agent, which has triaged 450+ alerts and gated every production change behind one or two human approvals. A separate teardown showed five new L2s raised $1.06B but burned through only $2.5M in chain fees combined.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-crypto/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:11:32 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-crypto/Bitcoin held above $77,000 after a 21% weekly gain, with XRP up 46% over the same stretch, as markets waited on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh&rsquo;s Jackson Hole debut. Bernstein reiterated Outperform on Circle with a $140 target, arguing the company&rsquo;s growth no longer depends on the Clarity Act after USDC supply added $1.7B in a week. Circle set September 16 for the public mainnet launch of Arc, its permissioned proof-of-authority chain backed by BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Visa, and nine other founding validators. Strategy sold $2B in MSTR shares without buying any bitcoin, parking the proceeds in a $1.59B &ldquo;USD Cash&rdquo; pool, while Gemini and Apex inked a deal to distribute crypto event contracts through brokerage clients.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:13:42 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/Bitcoin surged $14,264 in a single week to close at $77,387 — its largest-ever weekly dollar gain — while spot ETFs absorbed $1.92 billion in net inflows and the bitcoin-to-gold ratio hit its highest since May. The move came as the CFTC declared it will invoke existing statutory authority to regulate crypto regardless of whether the CLARITY Act passes, setting up a September 16 rulemaking showdown. Solana shipped a mainnet upgrade cutting slot time to 350ms, Ethereum researchers published a new timing attack on PoS attestation, and BounceBit is shutting down its L1 after losing $286.5M BB to a protocol-level exploit.https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:28 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Bitcoin broke $71,000 after spot ETFs pulled in $517 million on August 19, the largest single-day haul in months, and a separate $189 million flooded into ethereum products as the broader rally torched $2.7 billion of short positions. Ethereum added 18% on the same move. In Washington, Trump hosted a CEO-heavy Oval Office meeting to push the Clarity Act toward a September 15 procedural vote, and COIN, CRCL, and BLSH each jumped roughly 8 to 10% on the optimism. The technical beat was heavier: Tempo shipped a Touch-ID-gated authorization layer for agentic CI/CD, and an ethresear.ch post proposed a bridge-free cross-chain exchange model that would have made the 2022 bridge heists structurally impossible.