Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma have launched Ethlabs, an independent non-profit R&D lab backed by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Consensys founder Joe Lubin, with a thesis that Ethereum will become the universal onchain settlement layer.

The $1.78 trillion asset manager stands up a dedicated institutional crypto unit, extending a platform that already includes the BENJI tokenized money-market fund and a proposed pair of dividend-into-bitcoin ETFs.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across more than 1,100 creator videos promoting Polymarket were not real, part of a paid influencer program in which creators filmed fake trades on dummy versions of the platform.

The Consumer Technology Association, representing more than 1,200 firms including Amazon, Apple and Google, urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act without delay. Senator Cynthia Lummis followed with an on-record statement that the bill ends the 'absurdity' of developers needing lawyers to know whether shipping code is a crime.

Morgan Stanley's amended S-1 filings for its spot Solana and spot Ethereum trusts name BNY Mellon and Coinbase Custody as joint custodians, set a 0.14% sponsor fee, and reserve the tickers MSOL and MSSE on NYSE Arca. Both products include staking provisions.

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo will co-chair a joint venture between OKX and NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange with ICE futures-exchanges chief Trabue Bland. Cuomo has advised OKX on policy since 2022, spanning the exchange's $504 million DOJ settlement. The venture is the consumer-facing wedge of ICE's $25 billion strategic tie-up with OKX.

The Bank of England published its policy statement and draft Code of Practice for systemic stablecoin issuers on Monday, replacing per-person holding caps with a £40 billion issuer-level guardrail and lifting the gilt share of reserves to 70%. Industry feedback is open until 22 September.

AWS turned on AI traffic monetization inside AWS WAF on Monday, letting any site behind Amazon CloudFront charge AI agents per request in USDC through Coinbase's x402 protocol. It is the first time a hyperscale cloud has wired onchain settlement into its content-delivery edge.

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act sits on the Senate calendar eligible for a floor vote, with House Agriculture digital-assets subcommittee chair Dusty Johnson signaling a fast House companion. The bill needs at least seven Democratic votes to clear the 60-vote cloture threshold before the August recess.

The world's largest derivatives exchange operator said Wednesday it will sue the CFTC over the agency's approval of Kalshi's bitcoin perpetual futures, arguing the contracts should be classified as swaps under the Dodd-Frank Act.