The CLARITY Act Rewrite Now Splits DeFi Into Two Classes
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
Spot Bitcoin ETF outflows hit 120 million on September 9 while Ethereum, XRP and Solana funds all drew fresh cash, a rotation with macro behind it.
An Arbitrum committee moved to ban three teams over 457,553 ARB in misused grants, but the proposed penalty cannot freeze wallets or claw back the funds.
A double-spend on the Nomic bridge left 36% of Osmosis Alloyed BTC with no bitcoin behind it. Validators froze 22.65 BTC, and a real gap remains.
Trezor's hardware held, but a breached email vendor blasted a fake STM32 security alert to users on September 9, the second vendor data leak in a month.
Ondo stopped minting USDY on Aptos and Noble on September 8. The tokens stay redeemable, but Noble is the chain that feeds USDY to the Cosmos networks.
The Liquid Network hack drained about 4,000 bitcoin, yet no keys were stolen. A patch meant to fix a 2019 flaw let the attacker mint unbacked coins.
An unsafe integer downcast let an attacker drain about $1.7M from a dormant Notional Finance escrow contract, and the stolen funds moved to Tornado Cash.
Kraken is delisting 21 tokens on September 11 and will force-sell leftover balances between December 14 and 18, warning proceeds may be minimal or nil.
Coinbase filed to bring single-stock perps to US traders and shares rose 10 percent, but the filing names no date, no stocks, and faces a CME lawsuit.
Silicon Network, an Ethereum L2 tied to Korean exchange Korbit, is winding down by December 31 with roughly 9.75 million dollars still stranded onchain.
Bitcoin closed its best month since 2024, then the market flipped a September cut into a two-thirds rate hike bet before the September 16 Fed meeting.
Polymarket raised $1 billion at a $21 billion valuation led by Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, up from $8 billion last year, with no audited books released.
Unlock trackers list a 9.92 million HYPE unlock worth about $797 million on September 6, but the Hyper Foundation has claimed only a fraction each month.
Schwab will route Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink trades to 39.9 million accounts. XRP, the fifth-largest crypto at $85 billion, did not make the list.
Moonwell lost about $8.7 million on Base after an attacker inflated a thin collateral token, and its only fix was to freeze every market to 1 wei.
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