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Joerg Hiller Aug 05, 2026 21:40 X402 enables AI agents to make direct payments using stablecoins, processing $50B in volume across 200M transactions. Explore its role in agentic commerce. X402, an open payment protocol developed by Coinbase, has processed $50 billion in stablecoin transactions across 200 million payments, according to a webinar recap by the Solana (SOL) Foundation. The protocol provides AI agents with a native way to pay for web resources, eliminating the need for human intervention in transactions. The protocol leverages the rarely-used HTTP 402 status code, originally intended for “Payment…

Time is running out to get a vote on the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act, though bipartisan work is intensifying with the White House reviewing the latest draft behind closed doors, according to reports.  Senator Thom Tillis said that bipartisan language drafted and sent to the White House last week is currently being reviewed by the White House. “We’ve got people working with White House right now…they’re going through some of the lines right now,” he was quoted and first reported by Punchbowl News Senior Reporter Brendan Pendersen.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to file cloture on the crypto market…

Senator Cynthia Lummis is pressing the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before its August recess as bipartisan negotiations continue over several unresolved provisions. Summary Lummis said lawmakers are negotiating the bill daily as the Senate’s legislative window narrows. Talks remain focused on CFTC authority, ethics rules, illicit finance and stablecoin yield. The legislation needs 60 Senate votes to overcome the chamber’s cloture threshold. Senate records had not confirmed a CLARITY Act cloture filing, leaving the vote timing uncertain. Lummis says CLARITY Act talks continue daily Lummis said Senate negotiators were still working toward an agreement after nearly 11…

Rallied by the recent, catastrophic vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets, exploited to the tune of over $100 million, the Bitcoin community has rallied to prevent future critical bugs in the industry’s open source software. PSA: Any users of Coldcard wallets that have not migrated their bitcoin to new seeds generated in secure firmware are still at risk. It may not be too late to act; see advisory on the matter.  Led by Calle, software engineer, avid vibe coder and creator of the Android version of Bitchat, and Rob Hamilton, the CEO of Anchorwatch a Bitcoin self-custody insurance company, the Bitcoin…

All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Large Bitcoin holders continued increasing their balances during the market decline. Retail and short-term investors supplied much of the selling pressure. Bitcoin faces a decisive test near $65,000 after rebounding from $62,500. Ethereum broke above $1,900, but still needs to clear resistance near $1,925. Bitcoin and Ethereum ownership is becoming increasingly concentrated among large holders as retail investors sell into the downturn, according to CryptoQuant data and the latest market charts. BTC whales continued adding below $60,000 and maintained positive 30-day balance growth as prices…

Rebeca Moen Aug 05, 2026 19:06 Uniswap (UNI)’s Pools launchpad offers new token listing options on Robinhood Chain, integrating DeFi tools like autocompounding liquidity and sniping mitigation. Uniswap (UNI) Labs has introduced Pools, a dedicated launchpad for tokens on Robinhood Chain, a newly launched Ethereum Layer 2 network optimized for onchain finance. Available at pools.trade, the platform lets users create, bid on, and trade tokens directly, leveraging features like autocompounding liquidity and sniping protection. Robinhood Chain went live in July 2026, built on the Arbitrum Layer 2 platform. The blockchain supports tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), including stocks, ETFs, and private…

Tony Kim Aug 05, 2026 17:40 Learn the basics of trading gold and silver options, how they differ from spot and perpetuals, and their role in a diversified portfolio. Trading gold and silver has evolved far beyond traditional spot markets, with options offering new opportunities for both hedging and speculative strategies. As Binance highlights in a recent guide, options on precious metals provide a flexible way to gain exposure to price movements without directly owning the physical commodity or futures contracts. How Gold and Silver Options Work Gold and silver options give traders…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly signed a law to set in stone the regulation of digital currencies and digital rights in the country — but citizens won’t be using Bitcoin to pay for goods just yet.  News agency Tass reported Tuesday that the new law will allow only registered entities to operate as exchanges, and puts limits on the amount of crypto retail investors can use.  For now, retail investors are limited to trading most liquid cryptocurrencies, capped at 300,000 rubles ($3,700) per year. Qualified investors have no restrictions, according to the report.  But the new law still prohibits…

RTX has gained a broader ecosystem role following the official launch of Remittix Markets, the new perpetual futures trading platform introduced by Remittix.The launch adds an active trading product alongside the project’s developed crypto-to-fiat PayFi platform. Remittix is therefore moving toward the RTX token launch with multiple products serving different areas of the digital asset market.Rather than remaining connected to one payments use case, RTX is now positioned within an expanding ecosystem covering crypto-to-bank transfers and perpetual futures trading.Remittix Markets Adds A New Trading LayerRemittix Markets gives active traders a dedicated way to engage with the wider RTX ecosystem.Perpetual futures…

Solana is one of the coins I will start a spot DCA strategy for. We laid out the general strategy in our Bitcoin August prediction blog last week, so today we zoom in on SOL. On top of the Solana DCA plan, I’ll also share a live scalp trade I’m watching right now.Before we dive in, a quick confession. We’ve published a lot of content lately, and I sadly missed posting a blog on my $HYPE trade. However, I did share it on X. Not the exact trade, but the alert that I was going to long it. For the…