BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.
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Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.
Read more →Bitcoin 'Anti-Spam' Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks
The long-simmering fight over a controversial Bitcoin network proposal finally produced a chain split over the weekend, but the breakaway Bitcoin fork sputtered almost immediately, grinding out just two blocks in roughl…
Read more →Is Clarity's delay a blessing in disguise?: State of Crypto
Senate Majority Leader John announced late last Thursday that the Senate would not hold even a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess, dimming the chances that the bill can beco…
Read more →Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE
Hyperliquid has never traded more contracts, and it has never kept a smaller share of the money those contracts earn
Read more →Bitcoin heads for 2% weekly gain as risk assets rally, Fed rate hike bets ease
Bitcoin crossed $65,000 for the first time in weeks on Wednesday after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered a second consecutive inflation shock, reporting June producer prices fell 0.3% month-over-month agains…
Read more →BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens
The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.
Read more →Brazil targets crypto fraud with up to 24-hour transfer hold
The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review.
Read more →BTCPay restricts remote Lightning access after attackers steal funds
Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown.
Read more →Controversial Bitcoin fork BIP-110 mines two blocks, then stops
A new, minority chain created when BIP-110 supporters split from Bitcoin on Saturday has produced just two blocks roughly eight hours after going live, with no sign that any miner intends to keep it moving.
Read more →Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%
The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
Read more →Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins
Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, triggering the long-awaited mandatory signaling period for BIP-110, a controversial proposal designed to temporarily curb non-financial data from being embedded on the network.
Read more →GT Price Tests Long-Term Support as Gate Layer Gains Momentum
Early-August active addresses spiked as Gate Layer added another potential catalyst.
Read more →Hardware wallet sales in Russia more than double as new crypto rules near
Russian consumers’ demand for hardware crypto wallets more than doubled in the first half of 2026, according to data from two major retailers, as the country prepares to introduce new crypto rules.
Read more →Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects
A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains.
Read more →Senate Keeps Clarity Act Alive With Crypto Bill Vote Set for September
The U.S. Senate has taken its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with leadership moving early Saturday to tee up a vote on the crypto market-structure bill and lock in a September date.
Read more →RENDER Price Tests $1.30 as OTOY AI Updates Strengthens
Meanwhile, the $1.78 aligned with 200-day EMA band remains the key resistance for RENDER price.
Read more →US spot Bitcoin ETFs post best week since April with $1B inflows
The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.
Read more →Will Crypto Explode Into a Bull Run as Bitcoin Gains 7% and Why Smart Money Is Buying Pepeto Now?
Will crypto explode is the question sitting on every trader’s screen right now, and Bitcoin just answered the first part by posting a 7% gain through July while absorbing every crisis the market threw at it. The asset h…
Read more →US Senate to vote on advancing CLARITY Act in September after Thune files cloture
The procedural move puts crypto market structure legislation back on track as lawmakers continue negotiations over ethics and stablecoin provisions.
Read more →Among Perp DEX’s LIT and ASTER Lagging Compared to HYPE
Hyperliquid controls 72.9% of combined 30-day derivatives volume among the three platforms.
Read more →Robinhood Crypto Chief Explains Why There Are 'Two Wolves' Inside Robinhood Chain
Robinhood Chain wants to be a financial hub for the suits just as much as for the degens.
Read more →Trillions in institutional money to flow into bitcoin, says Bitwise's Matt Hougan
Bitcoin will draw trillions of dollars from institutional investors over the next decade as financial advisers, family offices, pension plans and sovereign wealth funds begin to view it as a mainstream financial asset, …
Read more →Bitcoin Price Eyes $67.5K as Kalshi Traders Turn Bullish
Kalshi traders turned cautious, with $67,500 odds falling six percentage points recently.
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