The CLARITY Act has received another round of changes as Senate Republicans try to secure enough Democratic support for Tuesday’s procedural vote on the cryptocurrency market structure bill. The latest version, which consists of 635 pages, includes an ethics framework backed by President Donald Trump that would restrict public officials from issuing or sponsoring digital […]
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have launched a pilot infrastructure for issuing, holding, trading, and settling corporate bonds as digital tokens. Called Demat 2.0, the model is being integrated directly into the nation’s existing regulated securities market, unlike many tokenization experiments built on standalone blockchain […]
Ethereum developers have tentatively scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade for Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC, even as private devnet testing continues to uncover bugs. The date gives developers a path toward a December mainnet release, but it remains conditional on whether the next testing phase can produce a stable network. Glamsterdam Date […]
The final major inflation report before next week’s highly anticipated Federal Reserve meeting went live on Friday and built on an already complicated economic picture, showing strong employment, sticky inflation, and $100 oil prices. Rate-hike expectations have skyrocketed over the past couple of weeks, which could spell trouble for risk-on assets like bitcoin. All Data […]
XRP Ledger Foundation CTO Denis Angell has suggested that an integration between X Money and XRP could let users move funds from the payments platform into the token and access yield-generating tools on XRPL. His idea goes beyond simply adding crypto payments to X Money, as he sees a possible connection between X’s wallet product […]
The dispute between Blockstream and the party claiming to be a white-hat hacker has taken a sharper turn, according to Samson Mow’s latest update. The hacker has accused Blockstream of serious security failures, while claiming that the company allocated only $1.5 million, or possibly nothing, to secure $5 billion in assets. Fresh Clash With Blockstream […]
XRP’s weekly Super Trend indicator flipped bullish on August 17, after the token rallied about 70% from $0.98 to $1.70. The catch, according to analyst ChartNerd, is that this exact signal has marked local tops before deep pullbacks in every previous cycle going back to 2019, and XRP is already stalling at the resistance level […]
Senate Republicans have released updated CLARITY Act text ahead of the September 15 procedural vote, adding new rules for non-decentralized DeFi protocols and clarifying how credit unions can deal in crypto. The changes reflect weeks of negotiation over the August recess, but they leave untouched the ethics provisions that have stalled Democratic support for the […]
XRPL has pulled its Permission Delegation amendment after a bug bounty report found a high-risk flaw during testing, with a hardened V1.1 now completing security review and QA checks. The episode shows why delegation at the protocol level needs safeguards that extend beyond the basic feature itself. XRPL Reworks Permission Delegation After Bug Report Permission […]
It was less than a month ago when the US Treasury Department announced it would double the maximum size of liquidity-support buybacks for longer-dated government debt. Bitcoin’s price reacted at the time with an immediate leg up. The Treasury now said it would triple it to $6 billion, but BTC remained flat and even dipped. […]