Senate Majority Leader John Thune is planning a vote on President Donald Trumpโs landmark crypto market structure legislation as soon as next week.
The final working draft of the Clarity Act has emerged days after talks with President Donald Trump led to a deal on how Republicans would address the effort's biggest remaining hurdle.
The Senate is expected to need at least 10 Democrats to approve the final bill before it can become law, because of the chamber's requirement for 60 yes votes on most legislation.
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For the fourth year running, weโve been included!๐ซ
Success in this industry isn't about one cycle. It's about longevity and the depth of partnerships built over years, through the ups and downs of the market.
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Investors looking for the next AI trade should consider blockchain networks and crypto assets as autonomous AI agents begin transacting with one another, according to Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul.
Enabling machine-to-machine transactions requires secure, autonomous, verifiable, and high throughput record-keeping. Legacy credit card and banking infrastructures are unsuited for agentic micropayments due to their fee structures.
Agentic AI will likely need to rely on crypto technologies and blockchains to enable their activities as these rails are ideally suited for these use cases.
โ Autonomous Contract Creation / Fulfillment;
โ Decentralized Identity Verification;
โ Auditability;
โ Access to Decentralized Computing & Data;
โ Speed and Fulfillment.
Unlike generative AI, which creates text, images or code in response to prompts, agentic AI is built to complete tasks with little human input.
That shift is already beginning.
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๐น Samsung Electronics Co. showcased the smart glasses it developed in partnership with Alphabet Inc.โs Google, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The new device expands the Galaxy ecosystem beyond smartphones.
๐น Samsung has officially debuted its latest foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold8 and the premium Galaxy Z Fold 8Ultra. The Galaxy Z Fold8 features a 10:16 aspect ratio for its cover screen, making it ideal for messaging and browsing. The main screen has a 4:3 aspect ratio, perfect for gaming and watching movies.
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OpenAI plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a massive new data center near Savannah, Georgia. The startup has contracted with Georgia Power Co. and secured 3.2 gigawatts of energy for the data center complex in Effingham County, potentially setting the facility up to rank among OpenAIโs largest to date. Several hundred megawatts are expected to come online starting in 2028, with the rest of development extending through 2032.
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On-chain payments have reached a point where fintech teams can treat public blockchains as settlement infrastructure.
The harder question now is whether those flows can support regulated business activity. Fintech companies cannot move serious payment volume on public rails if every transfer exposes counterparties, amounts, timing, and operating patterns. Regulated markets also require identity checks, audit access, and reporting.
Arcane Finance is building that privacy and compliance layer on Stellar, so payment companies can use shared settlement rails without exposing sensitive business data by default.
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PsiQuantum has signed a $125 million agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the quantum โcomputing startup's largest U.S. government award to date. The deal falls โunder DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which aims to determine whether it is possible to build an industrially useful quantum computer by 2033.
PsiQuantum โ Chief Executive Victor Peng said the DARPA vetting will help โthe industry work out "what's real and what's not." He said PsiQuantum's โfirst commercial-scale machine should be running around 2030.
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Ripple has selected The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY), a global financial services company, for the primary custody of RLUSD reserves. Ripple and BNY are jointly committed to paving the way for digital asset adoption at institutional scale and together are bridging the gap between the traditional finance and crypto ecosystems.
โAs primary custodian, we are thrilled to support the growth and adoption of RLUSD by facilitating the seamless movement of reserve assets and cash to support conversions and are proud to be working closely with Ripple to continue propelling the future of the financial system,โ โ said Emily Portney, Global Head of Asset Servicing at BNY.
The partnership was originally published on July 9, 2026.
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The US will reconfigure its annual federal R&D budget of around US$200 billion away from funding colleges and โlegacy institutionsโ and towards individual scientists instead, in pursuit of faster and more โagileโ new research organisations with AI as a core focus, the report said.
We need new paradigms for the research enterprise, including innovative models for funding and sharing scientific research, redefining how America conducts the business of discovery. We must build an ecosystem that attracts top talent, celebrates merit, protects our intellectual edge, and enables scientists to focus on meaningful work rather than administrative box checking.
Our federal agencies distribute approximately $200 billion in annual R&D funding. Yet we have no systematic framework for identifying where those dollars could catalyze the greatest scientific returns, with deference instead given to the same incumbents that consume the funding.
Driving meaningful improvements in our portfolio allocation will require a coordinated effort, but it is not impossible. We already have proof that bold models can dramatically accelerate progress and deliver new scientific opportunities for our researchers.
According to a memo accompanying the report, US federal departments and agencies are instructed to submit an action plan within 90 days outlining the steps they will take to implement the reportโs recommendations.
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A group of leading financial institutions and Bitcoin companies today announced the formation of the Bitcoin Security Consortium, an initiative dedicated to supporting the long-term security and resilience of the Bitcoin network, backed by an aggregate $15 million in member pledges over the next 3 years.
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Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon is throwing his weight behind a landmark crypto bill that would establish a new regulatory framework for digital asset markets, giving the measure a powerful line of support on Wall Street as other top bankers rally against key provisions.
โThe Clarity Act โ like all legislation โ is not perfect. And there are lots of things that you could debate and argue about. But I think one of the most important things that it does is that it creates a level playing field to enhance market stability and allow these markets to develop appropriately,โ Solomon said in an interview.
โIโm very supportive of moving the Clarity Act forward, so we can get some market structure in place and start to move the innovation process along,โ he said.
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Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios unveiled more than $5 billion in Federal commitments expanding the Genesis Mission alongside new mission-driven National Science and Technology Challenges.
These agencies will leverage the DOE-built American Science and Security Platform, which provides shared infrastructure that connects researchers with data, compute, and AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery.
โAmericaโs greatest scientific achievements have been born of national mobilizations paired with the construction of new institutions. The Genesis Mission is the next chapter in that tradition, as we work together to harness AI for scientific discovery at a scale no one else on the planet can match,โ said Director Kratsios.
These challenges include:
โ Helping Americans Live Longer, Healthier Lives
โ Delivering Reliable Infrastructure and Energy Affordability
โ Building American Industrial Strength
โ Extending the Frontiers of American Discovery
โ Protecting the Nation from Emerging Threats
The Genesis Mission sets out a new operating model for American science, aiming to double Americaโs R&D output and translate scientific breakthroughs into practical benefits for the American people.
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July 23: ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan to Use Digital Tenge Across Government Spending This August
Kazakhstan to begin using the digital tenge in public procurement from August after completing the integration of the digital currency platform with the Finance Ministryโs information systems, reported the Prime Ministerโs press service on July 22.
The announcement followed a government meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy Serik Zhumangarin, where officials reviewed progress on pilot projects testing the central bank digital currency and discussed challenges to its wider implementation.
According to the ministry, the legal status of the digital tenge platform and its operating procedures have now been established. A total of 340 billion digital tenge (US$626 million) has been issued, with 20 pilot projects completed, 10 underway, and 50 more in preparation.
๐ ๐ Beginning in August, the digital tenge will be used for public procurement of goods, including medicines, fuel and lubricants, and other material supplies. Pilot projects cover infrastructure construction, budget lending and subsidies, grant financing, government support measures, public procurement, tax administration, as well as procurement by the National Bank and quasi-state entities.
https://astanatimes.com/2026/07/kazakhstan-to-use-digital-tenge-across-government-spending-this-august/
Kazakhstan to begin using the digital tenge in public procurement from August after completing the integration of the digital currency platform with the Finance Ministryโs information systems, reported the Prime Ministerโs press service on July 22.
The announcement followed a government meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy Serik Zhumangarin, where officials reviewed progress on pilot projects testing the central bank digital currency and discussed challenges to its wider implementation.
According to the ministry, the legal status of the digital tenge platform and its operating procedures have now been established. A total of 340 billion digital tenge (US$626 million) has been issued, with 20 pilot projects completed, 10 underway, and 50 more in preparation.
https://astanatimes.com/2026/07/kazakhstan-to-use-digital-tenge-across-government-spending-this-august/
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Notabene, the operator of the worldโs largest open network for regulated on-chain transactions, today announced a strategic investment from Ripple.
๐น Notabene Flow is Notabeneโs B2B stablecoin payments platform that enables payment coordination and authorization capabilities, which leverage and are built on top of Notabeneโs scaled transaction authorization network.
By combining Rippleโs global enterprise ecosystem and RLUSD stablecoin with Notabeneโs trusted institutional network, which today facilitates over $2 trillion in annualized transaction volume, the partnership is set to accelerate adoption of compliant stablecoin payments while creating a pathway for RLUSD to be integrated across one of the worldโs largest institutional payment networks for digital assets. ๐
Together, the companies aim to make compliant stablecoin transactions easier for financial institutions to adopt at scale.
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