Andre Cronje, Michael Kong and David Richardson are stepping down from the board of the Layer 1 blockchain, whose token has fallen about 97% from its peak, as Matt Visser takes over as CEO

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.

Hsiao-Wei Wang resigned as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation on Thursday after a sabbatical, the second co-ED exit at the Switzerland-based nonprofit in four months and the latest in a five-month wave of senior departures.

Anthropic's most powerful public model came with guardrails users called too broad — then the US government switched it off entirely. Crypto's builders say that is exactly why AI should run on networks no company or state controls, and traders have started to bid up the tokens betting on it.

Ondo Finance expanded Ondo Global Markets with 173 new tokenized stocks and ETFs on Tuesday, lifting the platform's total catalog past 430 assets on Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain. The batch brings AI, robotics, quantum, defense tech, critical materials, and data center energy names onchain alongside BlackRock active ETFs and covered call strategies.

Backpack's tokenized SpaceX share token has crossed 10,000 onchain holders on Solana, six days after listing alongside the company's Nasdaq debut. The milestone widens the holder gap with rival xStocks' SpaceX product and lands as Backpack chief executive Armani Ferrante stakes out a structural distinction from competing onchain SpaceX exposure.

The Stretch preferred fell to about $85 on Thursday, roughly 15% below the $100 it is engineered to hold, extending a record-low close and tightening one of the channels Strategy uses to fund its bitcoin buying.

Cap Labs' batch auction for its CAP governance token drew 1,002 bids and $16.4 million in commitments, clearing at $0.011 per token for a $106 million fully diluted valuation.