Senate Fails to Advance Clarity Act in 49-50 Cloture Vote

A Senate cloture vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed 49-50 on Tuesday, dealing a major setback to the crypto industry's top legislative priority.

Zcash Coinholders Vote to Keep Halvings and Cut Block Times to 25 Seconds

Zcash coinholders voted to keep bitcoin-style halvings and cut block times to 25 seconds, with roughly 2.4 million ZEC casting weighted ballots in the NU7 vote.

X Launches Cashtag Trading With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini

X rolled out a Trade option for its Cashtags, linking U.S. users to Interactive Brokers, Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini and Moomoo to complete orders.

Louisville Athletics Signs Ripple Deal to Put XRP Logo on Denny Crum Court

The multi-year deal puts the XRP logo on the Cardinals' home court and extends Ripple's branding across the KFC Yum! Center and the university's digital channels.

Deutsche Bank to Launch Digital Asset Custody for Institutional Clients

Deutsche Bank plans to launch a digital asset custody service for institutional and corporate clients in Europe, holding Bitcoin, Ether, USDC and EURC under regulated custody.

Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa as Validators

Circle switched on the Arc mainnet, an open Layer 1 blockchain secured by BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard and Visa, bringing USDC-native finance to the network.

Binance Launches ETF Wealth Management With U.S. Treasury and Bond Funds

Binance added 11 U.S.-listed Treasury and bond ETFs to Binance Earn, routing orders through Nest Trading and Alpaca Securities rather than tokenizing the funds.

FCA Publishes Guidance on How the UK Crypto Regime Applies to Firms

The FCA published guidance setting out which crypto activities will need authorisation under the UK's future regime, ahead of the application window.

IDRX Rupiah Stablecoin Goes Live on Celo With Textile FX Liquidity

The regulated Indonesian Rupiah stablecoin IDRX has gone live on Celo, marking the twentieth currency to deploy on the stablecoin-focused payments network.

Lido DAO Proposes Contingent LDO Market-Making Mandate

Lido DAO contributors want a pre-approved, capped liquidity mandate for LDO, the governance token that secures the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum.

US House Committee Advances Crypto Tax Bill in 38-5 Vote

The first federal framework for digital asset taxation clears committee and heads to the full House.

Moscow Exchange to Launch Perpetual Futures on Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Tron

Moscow Exchange will start trading cash-settled perpetual futures on five cryptocurrency indices in late September, expanding its crypto derivatives line.

Zcash Hit $1,385 While Monero Fell Below $500 on the Same Day

Zcash rallied 16.55% to $1,373 on a day Monero fell 1.67%, widening a gap that shows the privacy trade is really a Zcash trade with an ETF attached.

Market Breadth Flipped From 12 Advancers to 89 in a Week, and Bitcoin Missed It

Crypto market breadth flipped from 12 advancers to 89 in a week. Every sector is green, Uniswap leads, and Bitcoin is still down 2% over the same period.

PROSPER Introduces MemeRWA as Alternative Model for Bringing Economic Data Onchain

PROSPER launches MemeRWA, linking verifiable economic performance data to independently priced crypto-native assets without tokenizing underlying ownership.

The Risk Crypto Traders Don't See Coming: And How Platforms Are Finally Solving It

Crypto leverage hides a critical risk: when markets crash, ADL can force-close profitable positions to keep exchanges solvent and protect users.

Ripple’s XRP Ledger Adds Support for Stripe and Tempo’s AI Payment Standard

Ripple’s developer arm released version 1.1 of the XRP Ledger AI Starter Kit, adding support for two open standards that let AI agents hold and spend XRP.

WisdomTree and MoonPay Partner to Expand WTGXX Tokenized Fund Access

WisdomTree and MoonPay announced a collaboration to widen U.S. access to the WTGXX tokenized money market fund, with MoonPay using the fund in stablecoin reserve management.

S&P Global to Acquire OpenZeppelin in Onchain Security Push

S&P Global announced an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin, adding onchain smart contract security capabilities to its digital asset risk assessment business.

SEC Grants Innovation Exemption for Tokenized Stock Trading

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order allowing tokenized securities venues to trade tokenized stocks onchain under a temporary innovation exemption.

FCA and Partners Raid Illegal P2P Crypto Trading Sites in London

Britain's FCA joined HMRC and the Metropolitan Police to disrupt unregistered peer-to-peer crypto trading across three suspected premises in London.