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The final stablecoin yield language in the CLARITY Act is now public, and it draws a clear line: crypto platforms can no longer offer passive, bank-style returns just for holding stablecoins. Rewards tied to actual on-chain activity, like payments or transfers, remain permitted. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) finalized the compromise text on Friday evening, ending months of back-and-forth that had stalled the broader Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Punchbowl News first reported the agreement and the text was also shared on X. The final rewards text in the CLARITY Act is now public.We’ve been clear throughout…

Bitcoin closed March with a modest gain after a volatile session, swinging between $65,926 and $68,517 before settling above $67,500. Market Volatility and Geopolitical Catalysts On the final day of March, bitcoin navigated another volatile session, oscillating between $66,200 and a peak just around $68,500 before retracing to sub-$66,000 levels during the morning session. As has been the case recently, bitcoin’s price action remains tethered to geopolitical developments in the Middle East; headlines suggesting a potential ceasefire have fueled intermittent rallies, while threats of escalation continue to exert downward pressure. Since Monday of last week, market sentiment has been particularly…

RootData’s new map shows 30 core Web3 partners plugging custody, trading, wallets, and infra into Hyperliquid’s L1 as it pushes toward an on-chain liquidity OS. RootData’s latest ecosystem map shows Hyperliquid positioning itself as a performant L1 “optimized from the ground up” to run a full on-chain financial system, with user‑built applications plugging into native components like its orderbook perpetuals DEX. How Hyperliquid’s partner network is structured At the funding and settlement layer, Hyperliquid has integrated with major stablecoin issuers—Circle (USDC), Tether (USDT), and Ethena’s synthetic dollar stack—to ensure that its derivatives and DeFi rails are natively dollarized. Under the…

Pantera says the tokenization market has grown to $321 billion, but remains structurally immature. Its Tokenization Progress Index found most tokenized assets still operate as wrappers around traditional financial products. Pantera says tokenization is growing fast, but not yet becoming the financial redesign many in crypto expected. Most tokenized assets are still wrappers The crypto asset manager analyzed 542 tokenized assets across 11 asset classes using its Tokenization Progress Index, a framework that scores issuance, transferability and composability from 1 to 5. The average score was just 2.04. That matters. According to Pantera, roughly 77.6% of tracked assets sit in…

The average number of transactions per ledger on the $XRP Ledger (XRPL) is nearing levels last seen during major bull markets. ​As of March 24, the average number of transactions per ledger was approaching 200, according to Vet, an XRPL validator on the network’s default Unique Node List (dUNL). This level has historically coincided with major $XRP bull runs, most notably during the 2020 bull market and again in Q4 2024. ​ ​The upsurge in transactions per ledger has been building over the past few months. In late 2025, the figure bottomed out and has since been gradually increasing, bringing…

According to Certik’s Stefan Muehlbauer, the recent indictment of an Army sergeant for using nonpublic information to bet on Polymarket establishes a precedent: misappropriating government or corporate data now carries the same legal weight as Wall Street securities fraud. Key Takeaways: The DOJ charged Army Sgt. Van Dyke for using classified data to net over $400,000 on Polymarket. Stefan Muehlbauer notes that the case subjects decentralized platforms to the Commodity Exchange Act. A June 8, 2026, hearing will clarify legal standards for prediction market participants and operators. The End of the ‘Safe Zone’ An expert said recent indictments by the…

The Stratum v2 Working Group announces today that ANTPOOL, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, Spiderpool, MARA Foundation, and DMND have joined the working group to advance the adoption of the Stratum v2 protocol. The working group was founded in 2022 by Braiins and Spiral to develop and maintain the Stratum v2 protocol as an open and vendor-neutral specification usable by the Bitcoin mining ecosystem. The protocol is an upgrade to the original Stratum mining protocol, bringing massive efficiency gains, privacy, security, and functionality that can be used to improve overall mining decentralization. The onboarding of the new members, all substantial players…

Bitcoin sell pressure is rising as the bitcoin price drifts toward a sixth straight monthly loss, yet underlying flows show a split market where short-term holders exit while institutions absorb supply. Bitcoin price traded below $65,000 late Tuesday after falling from above $74,000 earlier in March. The move has come alongside a rise in exchange inflows, with about 22,000 $BTC sent to trading venues during one session, signaling distribution from recent buyers. Despite that pressure, price has held above the $60,000 range and remains above long-term support levels. The key question is where the coins are going. On-chain data points…

Venus, the leading lending protocol on the $BNB Chain, is excited to announce the strategic launch of Venus Trade on $BNB Chain, a decentralized, high-performance blockchain ecosystem built for Web3 applications, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital assets. The purpose is to enable users to express the view that one asset will outperform another, all within a single, unified position, rather than managing the complex array of lending and borrowing positions. We’re powering a new way to trade on @BNBCHAIN 🥞Venus Trade, @VenusProtocol’s new relative performance trading, is now live, and executing through PancakeSwap liquidity. https://t.co/VKh23RoRKi pic.twitter.com/xdjSU4BMQO — PancakeSwap (@PancakeSwap) May…

Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset management company, announced changes to its DeFi Fund, a decentralized finance-focused investment fund, as part of a rebalancing process for the first quarter of 2026. The company removed the Aerodrome Finance (AERO) token from the fund and replaced it with the Ethena ($ENA) token. According to data shared by Grayscale, as of May 1st, Uniswap holds the largest share in the DeFi Fund with 35.22%. It is followed by Aave with 21.36% and Ondo with 19.83%. The newly added Ethereum’s weight in the fund is stated as 13.59%. The remaining portion of the fund consisted…