Senators take a procedural vote on the crypto market structure bill later Tuesday. Bitcoin has given back 3% since touching $79,530 overnight, with XRP and zcash the only majors gaining ground.
Batch V1.1 would let users bundle up to eight linked transactions into one operation, with 27 of 35 trusted validators now backing the change.
Banking groups also said the GOP’s final text leaves stablecoin reward loopholes, while tribal gaming interests warn that its prediction market provisions threaten tribal sovereignty.
Prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture complaint against what they call Iran’s illegal crypto proceeds that are used to fund its military.
Transaction V1 raises Solana’s limit to 4,096 bytes from 1,232, giving developers more room for multi-step trades, company-wallet approvals and privacy proofs.
CoinEx said falling trading volumes and liquidity, along with rising regulatory and compliance costs, had exceeded “reasonable boundaries,” with withdrawals remaining open until Dec. 22.
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Democratic Senators were said to be meeting late Monday to discuss the latest proposed draft text.
Balancer cut costs and shipped new products after restructuring, but Marcus Hardt says v3 failed to replace legacy revenue as November’s $128 million exploit continued to weigh on adoption.
The House Ways and Means Committee published a crypto tax bill addressing de minimis transactions, staking and other issues for which the industry’s clamored for policies.
Bitcoin pulls back from $79,000 as the Senate prepares to vote on the Clarity Act and oil prices rise.
When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
Some Democrats remain dissatisfied with the bill’s crypto ethics provisions and will be sending a counterproposal just hours before a key procedural vote.
Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup – the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today’s Steam Frame – are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn’t saying so yet. The company is figuring out “how and when we can deliver something like that,” Valve designer Pierre-Loup … Read more
The Clarity Act could give banks, brokers and asset managers a clearer rulebook, but financial firms have already moved far enough into digital assets that failure may slow adoption rather than stop it.
The SEC chair said crypto issuance, transfer agent modernization and custody will form the backbone of the agency’s regulatory push.
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a … Read more
One of the top crypto market structure negotiators in Washington says she’s run out of gas on new revisions for the bill she’s worked on for more than five years.
New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. | Image: The Verge With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence – but you’ll have to pay more for it. Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered … Read more
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei’s calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
Eight trade associations say exceptions for interest-like rewards could pull deposits from banks and reduce lending.
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AI agents now run in production at a scale of billions of operations a day, and a recurring architectural pattern has surfaced: agents need a compute scratch pad. Not only for coding tasks, but for data aggregation, analysis, verification, and any workflow where semantic reasoning alone isn’t enough. Abnormal AI, a behavioral security service that … Read more
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we’ve compiled some of … Read more
The OpenAI chief called for safeguards during training and shared industry standards, saying developers can act before legislation arrives.
Miami, United States, September 14th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–ReleasePad, a Changelog Tool, today launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding agents such as Claude, Codex, Grok and other LLM’s draft, publish and analyze product changelogs directly from a conversation. Release notes are the step most teams skip: the feature ships, the announcement waits, and … Read more
CEO Vlad Tenev said more shareholder features are coming as Robinhood’s offshore stock tokens draw scrutiny over ownership rights.