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Republicans Reject Democratic Amendments to CLARITY Act, Threatening Passage

Bitget Wallet Adds Reality Tokenized US Stocks to RWA Lineup on Arbitrum

Standard Chartered Sets $10 ARB Target by 2030, Calling Arbitrum the Blockchain for TradFi

House Committee Advances Crypto Tax Bill With $10 Fee Exemption Ahead of Wednesday Markup

DOJ Seeks $61M Forfeiture of Iranian Oil Proceeds Laundered Through Binance

Base and Ethereum Split on Account Abstraction, Producing Two Rival Standards

Balancer Proposes Orderly Shutdown With $9M Treasury Payout to BAL Holders

Strategy Repurchases $139M in Preferred Stock While Pausing Bitcoin for Second Week
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Kraken Launches xStocks Vaults for DeFi Yield on Tokenized Equities

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Bitget Wallet Adds Reality Tokenized US Stocks to RWA Lineup on Arbitrum
Bitget Wallet launched support for Reality's tokenized US stock tokens on September 15, 2026, positioning crypto wallets as 24/7 access points for traditional financial assets. The integration covers Arbitrum and Morph blockchains and includes offerings from Ondo Finance and xStocks.

Standard Chartered Sets $10 ARB Target by 2030, Calling Arbitrum the Blockchain for TradFi
Standard Chartered issued its first formal research on Arbitrum's ARB token, setting a $10 price target for end of 2030 (70x upside). The thesis hinges on Arbitrum's Orbit stack capturing 10% fees from institutional chains, with Robinhood Chain as the primary case study.

DOJ Seeks $61M Forfeiture of Iranian Oil Proceeds Laundered Through Binance
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking $61 million in cryptocurrency proceeds linked to Iranian oil sales, with the funds allegedly laundered through Binance accounts that the exchange itself had previously vouched for as legitimate.

Base and Ethereum Split on Account Abstraction, Producing Two Rival Standards
Base and Ethereum have ended their collaboration on native account abstraction standards, leaving two competing draft proposals in place and pushing cross-chain compatibility work to the wallet and application layer.
Regulation

Bitcoin Slides Below $76K as Clarity Act Odds Crater Ahead of Senate Vote
Polymarket's implied probability of the Clarity Act becoming law in 2026 collapsed from 29.5% to 12.5% in 24 hours as Democrats pushed for last-minute concessions. Bitcoin fell roughly 2% to approximately $75,900, with 95 of 124 largest non-stablecoin tokens declining.

Republicans Reject Democratic Amendments to CLARITY Act, Threatening Passage
Senate Republicans rejected a Democratic counteroffer to the CLARITY Act on Tuesday, moving ahead with a cloture vote without incorporating amendments on ethics, DeFi policy, and tribal gaming protections. The rejection signals potential gridlock on comprehensive crypto regulation.

House Committee Advances Crypto Tax Bill With $10 Fee Exemption Ahead of Wednesday Markup
A House committee released sweeping crypto tax legislation Monday, setting a Wednesday markup that could reshape how tens of millions of Americans report digital asset activity to the IRS. The bill's headline provision is a $10 de minimis exemption for certain fees paid in cryptocurrency.

EU Cyber Resilience Act Forces 24-Hour Vulnerability Disclosure on Crypto Wallets
The European Union's Cyber Resilience Act now requires crypto wallet providers to report discovered vulnerabilities within 24 hours, with a full technical notification due within 72 hours, or face administrative fines of up to $17.3 million per violation.
DeFi

Balancer Proposes Orderly Shutdown With $9M Treasury Payout to BAL Holders
Balancer has proposed an orderly shutdown with a $9 million treasury distribution to BAL token holders. Pools transition to withdrawals-only mode October 30, 2026, with redemptions opening May 2027. The move reflects broader DeFi governance challenges.

Kraken Launches xStocks Vaults for DeFi Yield on Tokenized Equities
Kraken has launched xStocks Vaults, enabling users to earn yield on tokenized equity holdings via DeFi lending on Solana. The product targets 2% APY with a 25% performance fee, but introduces smart contract and liquidation risks alongside regulatory uncertainty.

Uniswap Launches StablePair Hook for Stablecoin Pairs on v4
Uniswap Labs shipped StablePair Hook today, a new Uniswap v4 tool that applies dynamic fee mechanisms to stablecoin trading pairs, with USDC/USDT as the headline use case. The release targets inefficiencies in fixed-fee structures for low-volatility assets.

Visa Opens VisaNet Settlement Data to Blockchain Lenders as Stablecoin Volume Hits $20B Run Rate
Visa announced it is pairing VisaNet payment settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure, allowing stablecoin card issuers to access credit backed by their settlement activity. Stablecoin payment volume on Visa's network has grown nearly 200% year-over-year, reaching a $20 billion...
Technology

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Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown
A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

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