Deals
A $1 billion meme coin purchase puts a huge 167% share dilution down to a single vote for ZeroStack
The approval-gated warrants equal 167.4% of the Aug. 19 share base, while a wider resale shelf covers seven holder groups.
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Legislation
CLARITY gets a September Senate floor date as CFTC signals a limited regulatory fallback
The scheduled cloture vote will test the bill's 60-vote coalition, while existing CFTC powers stop short of Congress's full framework.
Governance
Solana’s first governance vote nears with a live 60% quorum display error
An unmerged frontend fix must replace live-stake math with the constitution’s one-third snapshot test before epoch 1021.
Analysis
How a former crypto user’s archived Binance data ended up in a foreign terrorism prosecution
A user can withdraw every coin from an exchange and still leave behind years of identity and transaction history.
Regulation
SEC proposes a path for crypto projects to raise $75 million and later end the token’s securities contract
The proposal would give crypto projects a federal roadmap for raising money and eventually leaving the investment contract behind.
Politics
Just 1% of wallets control $133M in midterm odds on Polymarket, creating a dangerous illusion of mass public consensus
Election betting looks like a mass phenomenon until you count how few traders are actually responsible for most of the money.
Market
Bitcoin hits $80,000’s doorstep just as the ETF bid disappears for the weekend
Bitcoin enters the weekend near $80,000 after $1.6 billion in ETF inflows and billions in short liquidations.
Gaming
Illuvium says six months of cuts bought it another year as MMO becomes its main remaining bet
Warwick says six months of cost reductions restored runway, but the studio has not published its current burn.
Technology
Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December
The better.codes contest puts Ethereum’s abstract security target against live certificates, but its score covers only koalaIRS12.
Stablecoins
Trump-backed $4 billion USD1 stablecoin has wallet powers its own GitHub does not show
Justin Sun says USD1 can move funds from frozen wallets without holder consent as World Liberty seeks final bank approval.
ETF
The latest $1.61 billion crypto ETF surge risks grinding to a halt against a 30-year US Treasury yield spike
Four days of fund inflows now face a $183 billion Treasury auction window that can test the rally’s staying power.
Crime
US expands Iran-linked hacking case to 17 defendants over HBO’s $6 million Bitcoin ransom plot
US authorities say the alleged Iran network compromised thousands of academic accounts and caused millions in remediation costs.
