Crypto

The revised CLARITY Act creates a category that did not exist last week. Its registration trigger is not a decentralisation metric — it is retained authority, which points straight at upgrade keys, admin multisigs and timelocks.

The Ethereum Foundation's 7 September priorities post fixed December 2029 as the date Ethereum L1 becomes quantum-resistant. Reaching it means five hardforks after Glamsterdam at 7.2 months each — and the same document quietly sets out a 12-month cadence that reaches a degraded version of the same milestone.

A race condition between the display logic and the signing buffer breaks the one promise a hardware wallet exists to make — that what the screen shows is what the key signs — without breaking any cryptography at all.

$26 billion. $31 billion. $38.17 billion. Tokenized Treasuries at $6.8bn, $12.88bn, $15bn, $16.21bn. All published in 2026, all defensible, none reconcilable without knowing the date and the definition.

Coverage fixed on the $75 million exemption. The consequential provision is a conditional safe harbor that would let a crypto asset stop being subject to an investment contract — and a preemption clause almost nobody has read.

Staking participation hit a record 33.98% of ETH supply this month. Six researchers, including the Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake, are proposing to burn validator rewards to zero if it reaches 50% — and their argument is not about yield.

A $3.3 billion liquidation cascade produced bitcoin's best week since March 2023. But the long-short accounts ratio sits at 0.865 and open interest is up 6.17% — the crowd re-shorted into the rally rather than stepping away. Here is how to tell forced buying from real demand.

Two rooms in two days: an unrecorded White House meeting on 19 August, and the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on the 20th — with a published charter, membership, agenda, livestream and public comment window. The one nobody is writing about is the one that leaves a record.

The SEC pulled its August 14 vote on Regulation Crypto with one agenda item and no replacement date. The cancellation is the cleanest available demonstration that rulemaking was never a substitute for legislation.

US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $853.54 million in five sessions and the price went nowhere. That is not an anomaly to explain away — it is a correction to a model that was always too simple.

Brazil didn't try to regulate the blockchain. It regulated the last point where a reversible institution touches an irreversible rail.

Bitcoin entered BIP-110's mandatory-signalling window on Saturday with miner support seldom above 2.5% against a 55% threshold. The fork's probable failure is what creates the risk — because there is no automatic replay protection until early September.