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Arc mainnet is now live, and Circle isn’t exactly starting small. The open Layer 1 blockchain for financial markets and agentic activity launched with more than 100 applications and over 100 institutions and ecosystem builders already live.Arc Mainnet Lands With Major ValidatorsThe founding validato
By Hannah Lang and Michelle PriceThe U.S. Senate's vote against advancing a major crypto bill amid persistent opposition from Democrats and a handful of Republicans marks one of the most significant setbacks for the industry, showing the limits of its muscle in Washington.Senators on Tuesday voted 4
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Crypto market sentiment remains firmly tethered to the regulatory setback suffered with the Clarity Act failing the Senate vote on Tuesday. The decline in crude oil prices and the easing in bond yields that supported sentiment in major financial markets on Wednesday failed to
StarkWare, partnering with Yukon Research and Eigen Labs, kicked off the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Autoresearch Challenge on September 16. The goal: get developers to optimize code that makes quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions cheaper and more practical, with a prize pool exceeding $20,000.The first
Bitcoin traders are quietly bracing for impact. Options markets heading into the September 15-16 FOMC meeting showed a clear put skew, meaning implied volatility on 25-delta puts ran higher than the equivalent calls. When protection costs more than participation, the market is telling you something.
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Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, has added custody support for Etherlink and seven assets on the Tezos layer-2 network, including xU3O8, a token representing physical uranium.The other supported assets include wrapped XTZ (WXTZ), liquid staking token stXTZ
Bitget has released its 45th consecutive monthly Proof of Reserves snapshot, reporting a total reserve ratio of 122% as of August 27, 2026. That means the exchange claims to hold $1.22 in assets for every $1 it owes to depositors.The streak itself is the quiet headline. Forty-five months without mis
Circle Internet Group (CRCL) shares failed to recover in midday trade on Wednesday, after the Senate rejected the crypto industry's central legislative push, even as the company launched the Arc mainnet and the CEO said the industry "isn't stopping."Circle announced the public mainnet launch of Arc,
The Clarity Act is "not fully dead" after it failed to advance in a Senate procedural vote on Tuesday, but the window for passing the crypto market structure bill this year is now "extremely narrow and only getting narrower," JPMorgan analysts said.The Senate vote ended 49-50, short of the 60 votes
Asset manager Janus Henderson has become a validator on Avalanche, helping secure and operate the network as part of its commitment to tokenized finance and onchain credit. The firm manages roughly $500 billion in assets and anchors capital for an onchain credit platform built on the network.The mov
Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov said the decentralized finance sector may need to take an "Uber path" to regulation, by growing adoption to the point where lawmakers can no longer put off figuring out how to regulate it.Kulechov made the comments in an interview with The Block's Gareth Jenkinson