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The EIP-8361 draft proposal calls for burning a rising share of validator rewards as the staking ratio climbs.

Matt Hougan argues that regulatory guidance from the SEC and CFTC would keep the industry moving even if Congress fails to pass landmark market structure legislation this year. A failure to pass the CLARITY Act this week will put the bill in a “walking dead” state, but won’t stop the crypto industry’s march forward, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan.  In a blog post on Wednesday, Hougan said while many, including himself, have called it the “make or break” week for the CLARITY Act, the reality is that the crypto industry has made too much progress to “go back in the bottle.”  “The reality is that Washington is always late to major technology shifts, and it has rarely mattered as much as people feared,” said Hougan.  Read more

All three sides are reportedly close to securing a major deal that would divide inbound and outbound traffic.

PI's price has rebounded swiftly from the recent lows, and here are the latest ecosystem updates.

A wallet holding $36 million in stolen bitcoin has become an unlikely public message board, as hack victims and opportunists pay to leave permanent notes for the thief.

BTC held near $64,000 as MSCI's world index set another peak and Brent fell toward a Hormuz deal. Ether is the only major down on the week.

Bybit’s Austrian payments subsidiary gained regulatory approval to develop card, merchant, open-banking and person-to-person payment services. Bybit’s European payments subsidiary has secured an electronic money institution license in Austria, providing the exchange with a regulatory basis to add payment and e-money services to its regional platform.  On Tuesday, Bybit said Bybit Payments GmbH received the license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority. The authorization provides a legal basis for future payment capabilities, which may include person-to-person payments, merchant payment solutions, open banking features and card products. The payment services will be offered through Bybit.eu alongside services provided by Bybit EU GmbH, a separate Austrian entity authorized under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation since May 2025. Bybit.eu serves users across the European Economic Area (EEA), with Malta excluded.  Read more

The six largest centralized exchanges now control over 60% of spot activity as overall market participation contracts.

EIP-8363 is a newly published draft proposal that would cut net consensus-layer rewards as the Ethereum staking ratio heads toward 50%. A group of six Ethereum researchers and developers, including Ethereum Foundation’s Justin Drake, has proposed changing the network’s issuance policy to cut validator rewards more sharply as the proportion of staked ETH rises.  The draft, called the Tapered Issuance Burn and currently being assigned the provisional number EIP-8363, would burn an increasing fraction of validators’ consensus rewards as the amount of staked ETH approaches a fixed threshold of 60.25 million ETH (around 50% of the current ETH supply), at which point the deduction hits 100%. The changes would phase in over 18 months.  Read more

Its Aug. 3 move stopped this Form 10 before effectiveness, leaving the maximum authorized 10 trillion Locke tokens unissued. The post The crypto project trying to replace the US banking system just pulled its 10 trillion token filing appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The once second-largest meme coin by market cap is now out of the top 100 alts, losing 98% of its value in a year and a half.

The exchange would cut note principal by about one-third while replacement Bitcoin option terms also remain undisclosed. The post GameStop plans $1.4 billion stock swap as Bitcoin collateral risk emerges appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Microsoft Copilot AI predicts a serious breakout for XRP, and this price prediction puts a real number behind it. By the end of 2026, XRP at $1.07 has a compelling bull case toward $5 to $8, which works out to somewhere between five and eight times the current price.The bull case rests on four pillars […] The post Microsoft Copilot AI Predicts the Price of XRP by The End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz says attackers are finding vulnerabilities faster than its team can fix them, forcing it to suspend swaps indefinitely.

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.

The $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF will liquidate from Aug. 18, while Hashdex's filings split on the payout date. The post Hashdex is shutting down its Bitcoin ETF, leaving investors with just days to sell before a blind, unpredictable cash out appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Recent on-chain data shows roughly 155,000 BTC moved into the $62,000 to $65,000 cost-basis range during the pullback.

The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.

The Aug. 5 bill-coupon mix will show whether financing pressure reaches Bitcoin-sensitive risk appetite or leaves reserves stable. The post Tomorrow sees a massive liquidity trap for Bitcoin as the US Treasury is quietly draining $77 billion from bank reserves appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet says the Coldcard exploit underscores why certified hardware randomness matters—and why AI is reshaping wallet security.