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In one week of July 2025, the House passed three crypto bills. One is law. One is law by accident and the President will not sign it. The third has not had a Senate vote in 365 days, and it was supposed to be the important one. Washington called it Crypto Week. In a handful of days in July 2025, the House of Representatives passed three digital asset bills in succession, and the industry treated the sequence as the moment its lobbying decade finally paid. The CLARITY Act cleared 294-134 on July 17. The $GENIUS Act cleared 308-122 the same…

Introduction If you’re asking whether NFTs are dead, the honest answer is: much smaller than they were, but not zero. Monthly $NFT sales have fallen from over $1 billion at the 2021–22 peak to roughly $300 million as of early 2026 — a real and lasting contraction, not a rumor. At the same time, a genuine (if much smaller) market of collectors is still buying, selling, and holding digital art and collectibles. Whether NFTs are “dead,” “still a thing,” or somewhere in between mostly comes down to which part of that story you’re looking at. So, Are NFTs Dead? Not…

The privacy coin Zcash ($ZEC) has plummeted by 60% after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability. The bug could have allowed attackers to mint an infinite amount of counterfeit coins. The flaw, which sat undetected in the Orchard pool since May 2022, was recently exposed by a security researcher utilizing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 AI model. Claude’s powerful model On May 29, security engineer Taylor Hornby discovered the critical counterfeiting vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard pool during a targeted review using the newly released Opus 4.8 model. The vulnerability involved an under-constrained element of the Orchard circuit, allowing arbitrary false inputs…

The lack of an ethics provision remains one of the biggest sticking points. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), one of two Democrats who voted to advance the bill out of the Senate Banking Committee, has repeatedly said he will not support the legislation on the Senate floor without a bipartisan ethics provision. Other Democrats have raised similar concerns over conflicts of interest involving public officials and digital assets. As of Friday, there had been no public readout from Thursday’s White House meeting, and no bipartisan ethics language had emerged, leaving one of the bill’s largest obstacles unresolved. If passed, the Clarity…

Although the landscape is quietly and slowly improving, the spot exchange-traded funds tracking bitcoin’s performance ended the week once again in the red. Ethereum’s negative trend was also extended, as the funds behind the two largest cryptocurrencies haven’t seen a single week in the green in a month and a half. Bitcoin ETFs in Red (Again) Even Monday recorded substantial net outflows, with $64.09 million leaving the $BTC ETFs. This was somewhat surprising since the cryptocurrency’s price actually rose past $67,000 on that date, fueled by optimism from the deal announced by US President Trump between his country and Iran.…

Regulation is why the mood changed from last year. The $GENIUS Act gave payment stablecoins legitimacy, and speakers repeatedly pointed to the CLARITY Act, still working through the Senate, as the bigger unlock. RedStone co-founder Marcin Kazmierczak framed it bluntly: CLARITY could be a 10x or even 100x moment relative to $GENIUS, because it opens the door to the full range of asset classes. Where’s the traction? Cash and collateral are the beachheads Collateral is where tokenization earns its keep first. On the repo panel, Broadridge’s Robert Krugman said his firm now moves around $370 billion of tokenized repo a…

A new Solana governance proposal wants to double the speed at which the network’s inflation rate declines, a move that would eliminate roughly $1.5 billion in future $SOL token emissions at current prices. SIMD-0550, submitted by Helius engineer lostintime101, has already picked up public backing from Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. The core mechanic is straightforward. Solana’s inflation schedule currently decreases by 15% each year, gradually working its way toward a long-term terminal rate of 1.5%. SIMD-0550 would crank that annual decline to 30%, keeping the starting rate at 8% but reaching the finish line in roughly 2.8 years instead…

Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the more outspoken voices in the US Congress associating digital assets with illicit activities, has called on President Donald Trump to release additional information on his crypto investments ahead of a mandated deadline. In a Thursday letter, Warren requested Trump voluntarily release a financial disclosure report on his earnings related to cryptocurrency between Jan. 1 and July 15. The request came after Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures showed he had earned $1.4 billion from crypto-related ventures in 2025, including through his memecoin, Official Trump (TRUMP), and his family’s company World Liberty Financial. “Your financial disclosure raises…

The play-to-earn gaming sector is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation — one that goes well beyond swapping out tokens for better graphics. The evolution of play-to-earn gaming is essentially a story about survival: which models actually keep players coming back, and which ones collapse the moment crypto prices dip. Key takeaways Play-to-earn games are shifting from crypto reward-first designs to gameplay-first models that prioritize long-term player retention. Rollercoin, a browser-based mining simulator, illustrates the new approach: mini-games, consistent rewards, and accessible entry for new players. Traditional gaming mechanics — battle passes, daily missions, achievements — are now standard features…

Bitcoin miners are redirecting billions of dollars and scarce power capacity toward artificial intelligence as $BTC’s downturn pushes mining profitability close to historic lows. Data from CryptoSlate shows Bitcoin trading around $64,000, nearly 50% below its October peak, while elevated network competition and weak transaction fees continue to squeeze miner revenue. Those pressures have made AI infrastructure increasingly attractive because>Bitwise Europe, told CryptoSlate that miners may be making that shift at the wrong point in the cycle. He argues that expectations for AI compute demand, including demand generated by autonomous agents, could take longer to materialize than current investment implies.…