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The Clarity Act is still alive, with Senate Republicans scheduling procedural action for when lawmakers return in September. Democrats remain at odds with Republicans over ethics restrictions, while some Republicans continue to raise concerns about stablecoins and community banks. A compressed three-week legislative window leaves little room for resolving the remaining disputes before attention turns to the November elections. The Clarity Act vote has been pushed into September after the US Senate left for its August recess without holding a vote, weakening prospects for the cryptocurrency legislation to clear Congress before the November midterm elections. Senate leaders have nevertheless kept…

An EU transaction ban will take effect on Aug. 23 against the entity listed as “HTX (HUOBI GLOBAL SA),” giving people and businesses subject to the bloc’s Russia sanctions regime a deadline to establish whether that company is involved in their dealings with the online exchange.The restriction follows the jurisdictional reach of Regulation 833/2014. It covers conduct in EU territory, transactions by member-state nationals and entities constituted under member-state law wherever they operate, and activities of legal entities conducting business wholly or partly within the bloc.The new measure adds HTX’s combined label to Annex XLV Part A, whose named third-country…

Zhou’s previous business ventures, including a failed flooring company and Caduceus, provide context for questions surrounding his ability to make the $100 million investment. Blockchain analysis connected separate WLFI purchases to wallets associated with Web3Port and Aqua 1, while the origin of the overall investment has not been established. WLFI says its compliance programme meets industry standards, while part of the token-sale proceeds went to a company controlled by Trump and his sons. A US$100 million (AU$142 million) purchase of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens has drawn scrutiny after the businessman identified as Aqua 1’s backer was linked to an…

Dogechain, a separate Ethereum-compatible network from the Dogecoin blockchain, kept producing blocks after its announced 12:00 UTC shutdown on Aug. 8. Its project-run bridge page also remained online, while a Dogechain-specific QuickSwap route continued sending users to Polygon.Dogechain announced the cutoff in July and warned that assets remaining on the chain might become inaccessible or permanently lost. The split in service availability after noon leaves the recovery path for those assets unresolved. Related ReadingDogecoin team warns Dogechain is ‘another knockoff token’Dogechain will offer DOGE holders access to DeFi, NFTs, and gaming, but Dogecoin warn not to risk your DOGE. Aug…

Resolução BCB nº 584, approved on 6 August and published the next day, takes effect on 1 January 2027 and requires a 24-hour precautionary hold on certain outbound crypto transfers. The hold applies to transfers to self-custody wallets and to virtual asset firms abroad above a reported US$10,000 per client per day, with smaller transfers held if a provider flags them. ABcripto president Julia Rosin said the rule is the inverse of its stated objective and would mean less traceability for regulators. Brazil’s central bank will require crypto firms to hold certain customer transfers for 24 hours before releasing them,…

AI Financial Corp. has swapped ALT5 Sigma Canada for a secured note and restricted shares. As a result, only $1 million of note principal is due in the near term, while a separate, conditional WLFI transferability window approaches.On Aug. 3, the company sold its indirect, wholly owned subsidiary to Prime Delta. Under the terms disclosed Aug. 7, AI Financial received a $12 million secured promissory note and 11,551,750 restricted Prime Delta shares. Prime Delta must pay the first $1 million of note principal on Aug. 11.Prime Delta must pay the remaining $11 million from 20% of its post-closing equity financings.…

The BIP-110-enforcing chain sat at block 961,633 against 961,802 on the main chain early on Monday, a gap of 169 blocks, according to bip110monitor.com and CNA’s own pulls from mempool.space and blockchain.info. That branch has mined two blocks in total, 961,632 and 961,633, and Ocean’s BIP-110 endpoint showed its most recent one about 26 hours old. Signalling ran at 2.53%, or 51 of 2,016 blocks, in the period that ended at the enforcement height, and the monitor puts the current period at 0.00%. Bitcoin’s (BTC) BIP-110-enforcing chain has mined two blocks since it split from the main chain at block…

The Treasury auctions will total $125 billion from Aug. 11 through Aug. 13, while two inflation reports land hours before the corresponding 10-year and 30-year sales. The sequence will show whether softer bond demand and any resulting rise in yields coincide with pressure on Bitcoin.The Treasury refunding plan starts with $58 billion of 3-year notes at 1 p.m. EDT on Aug. 11. It continues with $42 billion of 10-year notes at the same time on Aug. 12 and $25 billion of 30-year bonds on Aug. 13. All three settle Aug. 17.The gross total is not a $125 billion liquidity drain.…

Canary Capital’s Canary XRP ETF (XRPC) ended the first half of 2026 with $81.6 million less in net assets even after capital-share transactions added a net $82.4 million, showing how falling asset values can overwhelm growth in an exchange-traded fund.The fund’s unaudited Form 10-Q, filed Aug. 7, showed net assets declining from $322.8 million at Dec. 31, 2025, to $241.2 million at June 30, 2026.The accounting bridge is direct: capital-share transactions increased net assets by $82.36 million, but the accounting decrease from operations, primarily unrealized XRP depreciation, reduced them by $164.00 million. The difference was the $81.65 million decline in…

Three Grayscale ETF registrations for planned altcoin products were withdrawn in filings accepted just 190 seconds apart on Aug. 7.The sequence began with the Grayscale Cardano Trust ETF at 4:33:37 p.m. ET, followed by the Grayscale Hedera Trust ETF at 4:34:55 p.m. and the Grayscale Polkadot Trust ETF at 4:36:47 p.m., according to EDGAR filing records.The Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot Form RWs give the same operative explanation: Grayscale does not intend to proceed with the proposed distribution of shares. The requests also state that the registration statements had not been declared effective, that no securities had been or would be…