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Weekly Recap: Congress Passes First Crypto Law!
The House of Representatives passed three major crypto bills, each with bipartisan support. PLUS: Ethereum is back.
'Crypto Week' Reaction: What GENIUS and CLARITY Bills Mean for the Industry
The House of Representatives today approved GENIUS, clearing the way for stablecoin act to go to President Trump for signature. It also passed CLARITY market structure legislation, sending it to the Senate. Here's how the industry and beyond reacted.
The Node: Is Ether Back From the Dead?
The second largest cryptocurrency is showing signs of vitality for the first time in ages.
Deepfake Scams Are a Threat to Humankind — Here’s How to Fight Back
Zero-knowledge proofs add a crucial integrity layer to AI moderation, enabling companies to verify decisions without exposing sensitive data or proprietary models, says Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh, CEO & Founder of Lagrange.
Welcome to DeAI Summer
Startups are making rapid progress in building decentralized pre-training and post-training machine learning. Can they compete with centralized companies long-term? CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman is optimistic.
The Node: The Plot to Fire Powell
The White House is tightening the screws on Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
'Crypto Week' Is Stuck Again as House Procedural Vote Drags On
The House market structure bill was supposed to get a final vote later Wednesday.
The Protocol: Layer-2 Eclipse’s Airdrop Goes Live
Also: Risc Zero’s ‘Boundless’ Incentivized Testnet, A New Bitcoin Proposal, and The First DePIN Powered Credit Card.
What’s Next for Stablecoins? Clearinghouses
As banks like Citi and Bank and America enter the stablecoin market, they’re likely to bring their own tech stack and clearing expertise with them. If crypto consortiums do not step in with alternatives, TradFi-style clearinghouses will dominate the landscape, says John deVadoss.
DeFi in Q2 Review: The New Gold Rush Is… Stablecoins?
Q2 was the quarter that DeFi stopped acting like a series of isolated experiments and started acting like mainstream-ready financial infrastructure, says Ryan Rodenbaugh, CEO of Wallfacer Labs, the team behind vaults.fyi.
