Kamino Names Michael Weisz CEO for US and Institutional Expansion
The Solana lending protocol has $1.35 billion in TVL and $1.02 billion in active loans, according to DefiLlama.
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Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote
Polymarket priced the odds of the bill becoming law this year at 12.5% on Tuesday morning, down from 29.5% on Monday afternoon, ahead of a cloture vote scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Ninety-five of the 124 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting with a
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CoinEx to Close Exchange on Ninth Anniversary
Withdrawals end Dec. 22, while Arkham attributes $422.7 million across 3.2 million addresses to CoinEx and its reserve page shows no current audit rows.
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Will crypto get clarity? Senate votes today
The Senate is set to vote on a procedural motion to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the major crypto market structure bill, on Tuesday, September 15 — a critical step toward a full floor vote, requiring at least seven non-Republican votes to clear the 60-vote threshold. Camila Russo
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Standard Chartered Sets $10 Arbitrum Target on Robinhood and Tokenization Growth
Geoff Kendrick's note calls Arbitrum "the blockchain for TradFi" and puts the token at roughly 70 times its current price by the end of the decade. The forecast rests on the 10% cut Arbitrum takes from chains built on its stack — a line that Robinhood Chain created in July and that has fallen 93%
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Bitget Wallet Adds Reality's Tokenized U.S. Stocks Alongside Ondo And xStocks
The self-custodial wallet lists rTokens on Arbitrum and Morph from Sept. 15. Reality is part of the Bitget ecosystem, and the announcement's asset count does not match Bitget's own product pages.
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Balancer Proposes Shutting Down and Returning Its $9 Million Treasury to BAL Holders
Holders would burn BAL for a pro-rata share of the treasury starting May 2027. Pools move to withdrawals-only on Oct. 30. BAL's market cap is $7.7 million.
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XRP Leads a Broad Crypto Bid on the Eve of a Senate Vote and a Fed Decision
Bitcoin added 2.3% to $79,164 and set its session high in New York rather than overnight, while the S&P 500 held a 0.3% loss. Seventy-nine of the 121 largest non-stablecoin tokens rose. The Senate votes at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on whether to take up the CLARITY Act, and Polymarket traders price a
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Republicans Post Final CLARITY Act Text With Trump-Backed Ethics Terms a Day Before Cloture Vote
The ethics division drops the Jan. 20, 2029 sunset, reverses the July text's bar on state attorney general enforcement, and raises civil penalties from 10% of the take or $500,000, whichever is less, to 20% or $500,000, whichever is greater. The bans on issuing and sponsoring digital assets reach
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Robinhood Says Shares And Votes Are Coming For Stock Tokens
Crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said on Monday that in-kind redemption and voting are on the roadmap for Robinhood Stock Tokens. The base prospectus governing the tokens says holders are not entitled to physical delivery of the underlying shares and have no voting rights, and the final terms let the
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Pixelmon Ends Game Development After Publisher Test Falls Short
The NFT project gave notice to its gaming team and will take its titles offline, while a smaller group searches for a non-gaming business model.
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Base-Ethereum Account Abstraction Collaboration Broke Down, Developer Says
The two draft proposals take different approaches to native smart accounts, potentially shifting cross-chain compatibility work to wallets and apps.
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S&P Global Leads Kaiko Funding Extension to $110 Million
The crypto data provider says the capital will expand infrastructure for 24/7 tokenized markets, four years after its $53 million Series B.
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Kraken Launches xStocks Vaults That Borrow Against Tokenized Equities
The product targets up to 2% APY by moving xStock collateral from Ink to Solana, while a 25% performance fee and DeFi lending risks apply.
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Pump.fun Drops Cashback for New Launches, Adds Holder Rewards
Wallets holding more than $20 of an eligible token receive trading-fee payouts several times an hour, while existing Cashback coins must apply to switch.
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ANON Triples After Sesta Deploys AMM On Robinhood Chain
Daniele Sesta says Equilibra, a custom automated market maker with adaptive fees and optional auto-repeg, is testing on Robinhood Chain and sits under the HeyAnon token, which set an all-time low a day earlier.
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Robinhood Chain Revenue Falls 83% From Its Peak While Trading Volume Sets Records
The chain kept $943,728 on Sept. 10 against $5.44 million on Sept. 4, its lowest daily take since Aug. 29. Transactions were flat and decentralized exchange volume over the week rose 27%. The average transaction cost $0.077 in gas, against $0.43 at the peak.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 SeptSenate Republicans Post Revised CLARITY Act Text Five Days Before Cloture Vote
The Sept. 10 substitute adds CFTC registration and Bank Secrecy Act obligations for trading protocols that are not decentralized, limits the DeFi title to spot and cash digital commodity transactions, and clarifies what credit unions may do with digital assets. The seven Senate Democrats who have
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Standard Chartered Says SKY Token Will 5X to $0.325 by 2028
Geoff Kendrick calls Sky "DeFi's federal bank" and forecasts a five-fold rise in the value the protocol passes to token holders by end-2028. The thesis runs on USDS supply growth.
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Spark Opens Its USDT Savings Vault To OKX Users
The exchange routes USDT deposits into a Spark vault on X Layer, OKX's own Layer 2 network, where the vault holds under $500 and Spark's risk reviewers noted the chain can be upgraded by its operator without delay.
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