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The US Senate is running out of time to advance the CLARITY Act, but Bitwise says a decisive failure could eventually remove an obstacle weighing on crypto markets.Senate leaders face a narrowing window on Wednesday to file for cloture if they want to preserve a chance of voting on the digital asset market structure bill before lawmakers leave Washington.The Senate’s scheduled state work period begins Aug. 10, while Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said lawmakers are expected to leave Friday and return Sept. 14.The Senate’s Wednesday floor schedule was focused on government funding legislation and did not list the…
Succinct’s PROVE token reaches the end of its first 12-month vesting lock today, Aug. 5. Under the Foundation’s terms, 100 million investor and contributor tokens are scheduled to unlock, a sum equal to 51.3% of CryptoSlate’s estimate of 195 million circulating tokens.The Succinct Foundation’s tokenomics terms set the PROVE token’s supply at 1 billion tokens and assign 10.5% to investors and 29.5% to contributors. A quarter of each allocation unlocks after one year. In token terms, 26.25 million tokens belong to the investor tranche and 73.75 million to contributors. Related ReadingEthereum hitting real-time zk-proof milestone is ‘ZK man on the…
Circle’s reserve engine absorbed a tough second quarter. Gross USDC redemptions exceeded mints by about $4 billion, and reserve yield slipped, while a larger balance base kept reserve income growing.Its biggest opportunity sits outside its reserves. Circle doubled the midpoint of its full-year other revenue outlook, which includes an undisclosed contribution from the ARC Token presale.Circle’s Aug. 5 earnings release puts the gross flows at $87 billion redeemed and $83 billion minted. Those rounded figures produce the roughly $4 billion gap.For Circle Mint customers, minting turns fiat into USDC, and redemption turns USDC back into fiat, according to Circle’s regulatory…
Bitcoin treasury Strive bought 20 BTC, but 110,000 new shares left holders with less Bitcoin exposure
Bitcoin treasury firm Strive bought 20 BTC in the final week of July 2026, but its gross Bitcoin exposure per effective common share slipped by roughly 0.03% in the period.Strive’s Aug. 3 filing records 20 BTC bought from July 27 through July 31, at an average price of approximately $63,191, including fees and expenses. Its Bitcoin holdings climbed 0.10%, from 20,000 BTC on July 24 to 20,020 BTC on July 31, and effective common shares climbed about 0.13% in the same period, from 84,099,973 to 84,209,973. Related ReadingOne Bitcoin treasury’s paper loss just made Strategy’s stress everyone’s problemStrategy remains the…
An AI data center firm just raised $25 million, but 90% of it vanishes in days to pay off one massive loan
Data-center and AI infrastructure company, Bitzero Holdings, plans to use $22.375 million of its roughly $25 million private placement to repay secured-loan principal on or about Aug. 6. The principal alone would consume 89.5% of the headline proceeds, while the warrants issued with the financing could eventually add 11.7 million shares.The company closed the placement on July 30, after selling 5,828,342 special warrants at $4.25 each. The securities brought in $24.77 million, which Bitzero described as approximately $25 million.Bitzero has yet to disclose final net proceeds or the full payoff bill for its secured debt. With those figures missing, the…
World Chain launches streamed EIP-7928 on mainnet Aug. 17. New feature enables parallel block verification for validators. Upgrade targets higher throughput without more hardware. World Chain said it will become the first production layer-2 blockchain to deploy streamed EIP-7928 block access lists, introducing the feature on its mainnet from Aug. 17 in a move aimed at improving transaction throughput without increasing validator hardware requirements. The network said it will stream full block access lists inside every flashblock, allowing validators to begin verifying transactions while blocks are still being assembled. The implementation is designed to address one of the blockchain industry’s…
Sequans Communications reduced its Bitcoin treasury by 79.3% during the second quarter, leaving 314 BTC at June 30 as the cellular chipmaker used Bitcoin sales to help eliminate convertible debt and bolster cash.Holdings fell from 1,514 BTC at March 31 to 314 BTC three months later, a reduction of 1,200 BTC. Sequans valued the remaining coins at $18.4 million and said all of them were unrestricted and available for sale. Its Aug. 4 results contained no post-quarter holdings count, so 314 BTC is a June 30 snapshot rather than a current balance. Related ReadingBitcoin treasury companies said they’d never sell…
BlackRock’s rare ETHA reverse split is about to make trading Ethereum 70 times cheaper than Coinbase
BlackRock is preparing a one-for-three reverse split of its iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA), a structural change that will lift ETHA’s share price and could reduce its effective trading spread without changing the value of investors’ holdings.ETHA’s sponsor approved the reverse split on July 31, according to an SEC regulatory filing. Every three shares held on the Oct. 5 record date will be combined into one when split-adjusted trading begins on Nasdaq on Oct. 6.Why is BlackRock doing this?Reverse splits often carry a negative signal in equity markets because struggling companies use them to lift depressed share prices and avoid…
A one-of-a-kind painting of the ANA’s famed Bebee specimen 1913 Liberty Head nickel will be auctioned this month, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the American Numismatic Association (ANA). Laura Verschoore Painting of ANAs 1913 5C Liberty Nickel Created by NFPIO Created by artist Laura Verschoore and NFP.io for America’s 250th anniversary, the large-format artwork incorporates patented authentication technology embedded throughout its canvas. DLRC will offer the painting without a buyer’s fee or seller commission, allowing the full winning bid to go to the ANA. The artwork will be displayed at DLRC’s table #1013 during the ANA World’s Fair of…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit every data center project seeking a grid connection before regulators approve any new projects. The order puts AI infrastructure tied to Bitcoin miners under scrutiny, while the audit verifies each project’s power sourcing, water use, cooling plans, and ownership.The order covers roughly 474 GW of pending connection requests, and Abbott said about 90% of that demand comes from data centers.That figure runs more than five times the grid’s record peak load. ERCOT paused its Batch Zero transmission-planning study once the order landed, and a separate PUCT survey…