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Evolving Lighter's Technical Architecture, Together
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Evolving Lighter's Technical Architecture, Together

Inside the crowdsourced AI challenge that’s made Lighter’s ZK prover over 5x faster in three days.

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Senate Pushes Clarity Act Vote to September
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Senate Pushes Clarity Act Vote to September

Ethics disputes and stalled negotiations have pushed the Clarity Act's Senate vote to September.

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Breaking Down Ethereum's New Issuance Debate
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Breaking Down Ethereum's New Issuance Debate

EIP-8363 would cap Ethereum's staking ratio by burning issuance past 50% staked. Here's where the debate around this proposal stands today.

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MetaMask Launches Agent Wallets
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MetaMask Launches Agent Wallets

MetaMask launched Agent Wallet, giving AI agents self-custodial access to onchain trading within user-defined limits and security controls.

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Uniswap's Pools.Trade Launchpad Goes Live on Robinhood Chain
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Uniswap's Pools.Trade Launchpad Goes Live on Robinhood Chain

Uniswap launched Pools on Robinhood Chain, offering two token launch formats, locked liquidity, lower fees, and built-in distribution.

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Eigen and Lighter Launch Autoresearch Challenge to Speed up Exchange
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Eigen and Lighter Launch Autoresearch Challenge to Speed up Exchange

Eigen Labs’ Lighter challenge has already made its ZK prover 3.3x faster, with developers and AI agents competing for 15K LIT.

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Kalshi's Exchange for Everything
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Kalshi's Exchange for Everything

Kalshi is using prediction markets and regulated perps to build an exchange where nearly any asset, event, or financial risk can trade worldwide.

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Circle's Arc Names Its Founding Validators Ahead of Mainnet Release
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Circle's Arc Names Its Founding Validators Ahead of Mainnet Release

Arc, Circle's institutional blockchain, goes live September 16th with a validator cohort built from TradFi giants.

5 days ago

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Analysis 0 0 Sportsbooks Are Building the Prediction Markets They Once Fought Written by William M. Peaster • 1 week ago • 3 min read Zcash Trades Trust for Proof Zcash's Ironwood upgrade is live, replacing the wounded Orchard pool with a formally verified succes... Analysis 0 0 Zcash Trades Trust for Proof Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Fanatics Buys CFTC Exchange in Prediction Market Push Decrypt reported that Fanatics is buying an exchange and clearinghouse from BGC, following DraftKing... News 0 0 Fanatics Buys CFTC Exchange in Prediction Market Push Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Hyperliquid SK Hynix Perp Drops ~20% on Bad Print A single anomalous trade in South Korea sent Hyperliquid's SK Hynix perp down ~20%, raising concerns... 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