MetaMask is becoming an independent company as Consensys restructures, with Linea and its institutional/protocol businesses spinning into a new entity retaining the Consensys name
Tether is backing a $400M private credit fund with Fasanara Capital, targeting up to $3B from institutional investors to move USDT capital to lenders across 60+ countries
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is urging the Senate to advance the CLARITY Act when lawmakers return from August recess, warning inaction signals the US is unwilling to lead on digital assets
World launched its fully on-chain prediction market on Solana with over 1M users on its waitlist, with Chainlink powering resolution and settlement in Phantom’s CASH stablecoin
Germany’s finance ministry proposed ending tax-free BTC gains for long-term holders, with coins bought after Dec 31 2026 facing a flat 25% tax on sale, pending parliamentary approval
Stablecoin payments startup Latitude raised $35M in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing total funding to $43M, with NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, OpenFX and Wilson Sonsini participating
Osmosis said a Nomic exploit let an attacker double-spend nBTC, with 39.84 nBTC entering Alloyed BTC and accounting for about 36% of its backing; validators froze 22.65 BTC linked to the attacker
Bitcoin Lightning wallet provider Alby confirmed a critical vulnerability in older Alby Hub versions that could let attackers gain unauthorized access and send funds, with one user known to be affected
BitBox warned of a phishing email falsely claiming to be from the company about a faulty Random Number Generator, urging users not to click links or enter seed phrases
Vitalik Buterin proposed EIP-8288, a recursive STARK mempool design for Ethereum’s I-Star upgrade, aiming to cut costs for quantum-safe signatures and enable private account abstraction
EIP-8288: Frame Type for PQ Sig and STARK Aggregation
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VerifiedX Foundation launched a $15M financing round with Cantor Fitzgerald as investment banking partner to build institutional Bitcoin custody, exchange listing, and lending infrastructure
Plume launched FACTOR, a limited-capacity vault with Tradeable and Deep Ocean Partners investing in invoice factoring and working capital facilities, targeting 14%+ net APY with weekly liquidity
Bastion Trading, a 9.99% shareholder in Solana treasury company SkyAI, plans to vote withhold all on all five directors at the Sept 18 annual meeting over bylaw changes, a poison pill adopted without shareholder vote, and related-party transactions
