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Every recent story from The Chain Beacon, newest first: crypto policy, markets, bitcoin and mining, DeFi, stablecoins and security.
Policy & RegulationThe securities regulator scrapped the meeting where it planned to propose "Regulation Crypto," citing a scheduling problem and offering no new date.
By Sofia Marchetti ·
Policy & RegulationA September cloture vote is the market-structure bill's next test. Both the SEC and CFTC say they will write rules regardless of how it goes.
By Sofia Marchetti ·
Bitcoin & MiningThe world's second-largest source of bitcoin hashrate has now closed its capital to mining, citing power-capacity shortfalls rather than policy hostility.
By Dean Okafor ·
Security & CrimeOrder records tied to hardware wallet purchases were exposed. The company says private keys and funds were not involved.
By Anita Boulos ·
Bitcoin & MiningThe governor has ordered a review of roughly 300 pending mining and AI data-center projects after ERCOT recorded a record hourly load in July.
By Terrence Hale ·
Security & CrimeAs unlicensed platforms wind down under MiCA, fraudsters are impersonating regulators and "recovery" services to reach displaced users.
By Anita Boulos ·
Security & CrimeUS prosecutors continue to charge facilitators of North Korean IT workers who take remote developer jobs at crypto firms under stolen identities.
By Anita Boulos ·
Stablecoins & PaymentsIssuers keep the interest earned on reserves. Banks want it kept away from depositors, and the argument has moved from lobbying letters into legislation.
By Colin Traoré ·
MarketsFilings show a Swiss lender sharply increasing bitcoin ETF call options and a macro fund rebuilding a stake it spent last year selling.
By Terrence Hale ·
MarketsUS spot bitcoin funds shed about $329 million over four trading days as bitcoin slipped below $63,000, with a couple of products still adding cash.
By Priya Raman ·
Bitcoin & MiningNetwork hashrate sits well below its all-time high after listed miners cut their contribution and redirected capacity toward high-performance computing.
By Terrence Hale ·
DeFi & EthereumMore than $11 billion flowed into digital-asset companies this year. Most of it went to firms that need licenses, partners and gatekeepers.
By Noah Brenner ·
DeFi & EthereumEIP-8363 would taper validator issuance as staking grows. The founders of two of the largest staking and lending protocols want it out of the upcoming hard fork.
By Noah Brenner ·
Bitcoin & MiningPublic mining companies liquidated roughly 28,000 bitcoin in the second week of August as energy costs and conversion spending squeezed balance sheets.
By Terrence Hale ·
Policy & RegulationA reclassification bill debated in Tokyo would fold digital assets into the financial instruments regime and impose new disclosure duties on custody providers.
By Marisol Vega ·
MarketsSpot ether products swung from early-month inflows to net redemptions in the second week of August, tracking a broader retreat in digital-asset fund demand.
By Priya Raman ·
Policy & RegulationThe SEC's "innovation exemption" for tokenized securities has been pushed back a second time, with objections arriving from both incumbent brokerages and the administration.
By Marisol Vega ·
DeFi & EthereumEther.fi's latest release adds tokenized equities and loans backed by a basket of crypto holdings, with lending routed through a dedicated Aave instance on an Ethereum layer 2.
By Noah Brenner ·
Stablecoins & PaymentsUSDC in circulation grew to roughly $65 billion, but reserve income still dominates revenue, leaving the issuer's results hostage to the Fed.
By Sofia Marchetti ·
MarketsListed bitcoin miners are converting sites and balance sheets toward AI data-center work, trading volatile block rewards for contracted revenue.
By Priya Raman ·
Stablecoins & PaymentsTreasury's stablecoin rulemaking drew more than 200 responses, most of them circling whether exchanges may pay rewards the statute forbids issuers to pay.
By Colin Traoré ·
Bitcoin & MiningA contested protocol split that activated on Aug. 8 inherited bitcoin's difficulty without its hashrate, leaving the breakaway chain hundreds of blocks behind.
By Dean Okafor ·
Security & CrimeUS Treasury designations continue to target Southeast Asian fraud operations, following a forfeiture of about 127,000 bitcoin from one network.
By Anita Boulos ·
Stablecoins & PaymentsThe remittance company is rolling out USDPT, issued by a federally chartered trust bank, aimed at corridors where recipients wait out bank closures.
By Colin Traoré ·
Security & CrimeAfter a record 2025 in which more than $2 billion was stolen, this year's losses are again concentrated in access-control failures rather than code bugs.
By Anita Boulos ·
Stablecoins & PaymentsUSDT circulation topped $170 billion while the issuer builds a separate, US-regulated token to satisfy rules its flagship was never designed for.
By Colin Traoré ·
MarketsUS spot bitcoin funds recorded net inflows of roughly $853.5 million in the week to Aug. 8, with BlackRock's IBIT absorbing most of it.
By Terrence Hale ·
DeFi & EthereumThe ArbOS "Elara" upgrade raises the Stylus code ceiling to 96 KB across Arbitrum One and Nova, opening the network to larger programs written in Rust and C.
By Noah Brenner ·
Stablecoins & PaymentsA consortium of large US banks is advancing work on a shared deposit-token settlement layer, an answer to stablecoins that keeps balances inside the banking system.
By Colin Traoré ·
Policy & RegulationEU officials say the crypto rulebook will be revised in 2027, driven by fast-moving US stablecoin policy and gaps the first version left open.
By Sofia Marchetti ·
DeFi & EthereumA brokerage-backed network overtook Base on daily active users within weeks of launch, while Base led on transaction count and Arbitrum held the deepest liquidity.
By Noah Brenner ·
