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Bipartisan work on the long-awaited Clarity Act continues after Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto said that she, along with two law enforcement groups, are feeling “good” about proposed changes to the bill, according to a news report. Along with the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys and the National District Attorneys Association, Cortez backed changes to the bill and said they felt positive about “the chance to resolve this issue once and for all,” according to a POLITICO report. The changes were sent to the White House. A number of lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act — which would set…

When one of the world’s largest airlines quietly adds a crypto payment option at checkout, it signals something bigger than a software update. Emirates has officially rolled out Crypto.com Pay on its website and mobile app, giving eligible UAE residents a new way to book flights using digital payments settled in Emirati Dirham — and the move lands squarely in the middle of Dubai’s most ambitious economic transformation yet. Key takeaways Emirates has launched Crypto.com Pay on emirates.com and the Emirates App for eligible UAE residents paying in AED. The partnership was formalized in July 2025 with a Memorandum of…

May’s Boom Quickly Turned Into June’s Bust The latest six months of mining revenue tell a story miners know all too well. Bitcoin’s price swings and bursts of onchain activity can give earnings a temporary boost, but block rewards still do almost all of the heavy lifting. Transaction fees may grab headlines during brief spikes, yet they remain a small slice of what actually keeps mining operations running month after month. Monthly mining revenue data from Newhedge.io shows July delivered only a partial recovery after June’s punishing 23% collapse, a drop that erased May’s rally and then some. April closed…

CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency data and tracking platform, has announced the most searched cryptocurrencies by users in the last three hours. Pudgy Penguins ($PENGU) topped the platform’s trending list, while Catecoin (CATE) and Bless ($BLESS) completed the top three. According to CoinGecko data, $PENGU gained 3.9% in value in the last 24 hours. CATE, which ranks second on the list, saw its price rise by 126.2% during the same period, while $BLESS experienced a daily increase of 86.1%. What IF (IF) also stood out with a daily increase of 41.9%. Related News Watch Out: Entering a Critical Week—Numerous Economic Developments and…

Organizations representing law enforcement officials in the US have reportedly proposed changes to a comprehensive cryptocurrency market structure bill under consideration in the Senate, with only days left until the chamber breaks for a month-long recess. According to a Tuesday Politico report, the National Association of Assistant US Attorneys and the National District Attorneys Association sent a letter to the White House asking for changes on provisions regarding developers in the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. The changes proposed to the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) within the CLARITY Act included that guidelines on developers not “create, expand, or…

Liquidity begets liquidity, so the saying goes. Hyperliquid, as its name suggests, has become the decentralized exchange of choice for many traders, particularly those who want to trade perpetual futures or “perps,” blockchain-based derivatives contracts that allow users to speculate on the price of an asset with leverage and no expiration date. Created by Harvard classmates Jeff Yan and a pseudonymous developer known as iliensinc, Hyperliquid, which went live at the start of 2023, is capitalizing on its volume and depth of order book by offering firms something akin to composibility: the concept from decentralized finance (DeFi), whereby permissionless smart…

Former Fidelity fund manager George Noble has warned that an AI bubble crash could cause 17 times more damage than the dot-com collapse, which erased about $5 trillion from the Nasdaq. According to Polymarket, the probability of an AI bubble bursting in 2026 has climbed above 17% after recently falling from 30% to 14%. Contracts using different resolution criteria placed the likelihood between 16% and 24% as traders weighed falling technology shares, revenue concerns, and weakness across global markets. Noble tied his forecast to the large sums flowing into AI infrastructure, arguing that the financial fallout could extend far beyond…

Shiba Inu burn tracker Shibburn recently shared an hourly update reporting 124,023,282 $SHIB burned in the last 24 hours, with the daily burn rate surging by 405.21%. Shiba Inu burn accelerated in the early hours of Saturday, according to the Shibburn website; this saw a cumulative 124 million $SHIB burned in 24 hours. HOURLY $SHIB UPDATE$SHIB Price: $0.00000497 (1hr -0.27% ▼ | 24hr 2.71% ▲ )Market Cap: $2,930,406,001 (2.71% ▲)Total Supply: 589,156,420,211,280TOKENS BURNTPast 24Hrs: 124,023,282 (405.21% ▲)Past 7 Days: 2,901,334,219 (-92.26% ▼) — Shibburn (@shibburn) August 2, 2026 In the last seven days, a total of 2,901,334,219 $SHIB were burned,…

The ethics piece has President Donald Trump’s crypto business empire squarely in mind as it seeks to ban senior government officials from direct ties to the industry. Trump recently agreed to accept a narrow version of this concept, surprising some crypto insiders with his willingness, and the White House hailed it as an unprecedented ethics constraint that directly affects the president. But Democratic opponents argued it’s structured in such a way that Trump won’t have to do much — if anything — to comply, and that he won’t have enforcement worries from a Department of Justice led by his appointed…

HyroTrader has announced that it is launching Hyro Protocol, an on-chain proprietary (prop) trading protocol built on Solana that settles in USDC. The Prague-based firm first made the announcement on July 8, stating that it is a response to the funded trading industry’s central credibility problem. Historically, traders and capital providers have had no way to independently verify what a prop firm’s dashboard tells them. Hyro Protocol is designed to remove that vagueness, and it says that it has made every key protocol event verifiable on-chain. HyroTrader’s CEO Samuel Drnda said, “Most prop firms still run on closed systems where…