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arc is circle's own layer-1, built for stablecoin settlement with sub-second finality and fees priced in dollars. jeremy allaire called it the operating system booting up.

the clarity act failed its cloture vote 49-50, per unchained's daily. it needed 60. that's years of negotiating that doesn't advance.

polymarket puts a 25 basis point hike at 89% for the 2pm decision. it's kevin warsh's first meeting as chair, and trump has been demanding cuts.

down about 4% tuesday, per laura shin, with traders pricing the hike as high as 92.5%. it was near $75,900 early wednesday.

circle and coinbase both fell around 10%, per cointelegraph, with bitcoin miners and treasury companies sliding with them.

bernstein expects "aggressive and swift" sec and cftc rulemaking to make up for the time lost in negotiations, per coindesk.

he expects the sec, cftc and treasury to advance rules under existing law and banks to expand bitcoin custody. "progress need not wait for congress."

wmougayar's read: rulemaking keeps the pro-crypto direction but has no legislative permanence, so policy stays hostage to whoever comes next.

paul grewal on the vote: every yard on the field belongs to them or to us, never both. he thinks ai should be watching.

aave v4's first rwa hub launches on avalanche with tether's federally regulated usa₮ as the main dollar source, so institutions can borrow without selling the collateral.

stani kulechov: "arc is now powered by aave." one core hub and two spokes, with borrowing against weth, cirbtc and stablecoins from day one.

v2, v3, v4 and uniswapx are all live, plus the web app, wallet and trading api. arc named it the preferred dex.

cirbtc is issued by circle and backed 1:1 by btc in circle's custody. uniswap is the liquidity layer and you don't need a circle account to swap it.

ccip and data feeds live at launch through chainlink scale, which arc is funding so its apps get cheap access to institutional oracle infrastructure.

zerion shipped a cli that lets an agent read wallets and swap, bridge and send on arc. uniswap wallet, safe, privy and fireblocks all run on its api.

programmable multisig from day one on a chain where gas is usdc — the plumbing for automated payments.

blockrun went live on arc with pay-per-call stablecoin payments built for agents. machines paying machines by the request.

polygon's oms supports arc from day one, covering ethereum, solana and the rest.

phantom, rabby, walletconnect and moonpay all shipped support at launch. walletconnect pay works on arc with usdc.

nick ducoff pointed out that plenty of people tweeted the launch and almost nobody tried it. which wallet, do you bridge usdc, where do you even start.

multi-party block construction went live on mainnet from blockspace forum. the ethereum foundation calls it a real step toward resilient blockspace; builders expect fuller blocks and better transaction inclusion.

a new ladp report out today covers quarkid and four other cases, and argues almost none of that infrastructure is pointed at the ai risks it could absorb.

about 905,000 active validators, up from a recent low near 880,000 but still under the 1.1 million peak, per leon waidmann.

tvl up 35% in the last month, and in eth terms the market has nearly tripled since april, per hexonaut.

27,139 eth in total staking rewards to date.

no manual bridging, no linked wallets, and the whole thing is confidential.

chase barker says alpenglow is moving toward launch, with anza wanting a quarter of the network on board first.

its ceo jake chervinsky walked through the steps it still has to clear, on the rollup.

pending regulatory clearance. it will also hold select stablecoins including usdc, eurc and eurau, per laura shin.

hollyyy paid $50 to mint and says almost everything on the chain looks terrible so far, with one exception she's rooting for.

tom wade found several launches hard-wiring opensea's enforced transfervalidator, which stops every other marketplace from listing them.

flaunch turned on nft-paired launches: a $100 buy routes through the collection's token first, so token demand becomes floor sweeps.

dario amodei repeated his call to slow frontier ai development at a san francisco conference, urging more safety investment.

delphi's shaughnessy argues labs that can't slow the frontier can't control it either. he makes the case on uneasy money today.

victor taelin claims anthropic and openai each have a pre-trained model past astra and fable, and believe millennium problems are reachable with the right lean spec.

it goes away in chatgpt, chatgpt work and codex across every plan.

his point was that meta did it quietly instead of asking everyone else to stop.

early talks, per bloomberg via cointelegraph's daily roundup.

daydreams ran it 24/7 through 5 billion tokens with one mission: make as much money as possible.

levelsio has been testing fsd supervised the whole time and says he's seen everything it does.

their military spokesman officially claimed the jet went down in marib governorate, per @sentdefender.

saudi defense says it intercepted the houthi drone south of the holy city tuesday evening, the second attempt on mecca. the houthis deny they targeted it.

it's moving through us intermediaries, per polymarket.

reuters reports the undisclosed muscat meeting, arranged by oman, days after the houthis seized yemen's red sea coast. they said they would not hit american ships.

2,000-pound bombs and bunker penetrators, previewed to congress as a formality, from the same factories that can't refill america's own magazines.

"we're standing there with our eyes closed and getting punched in the face," one said of the iranian strikes.

iran fired about 20 missiles at jordan last week; the us answered with 60-70 patriots and more than a dozen thaads, because the warheads split on the way in.

john thune says they'd look at blocking us exports to ease prices before november. ukrainian strikes on russian refineries took the other big exporter off the market.

satellite imagery of a shanghai shipyard shows what looks like a vessel for deploying underwater drones, a field china already leads.

per bloomberg, in cointelegraph's daily roundup.

the safe option returned about 10% over a decade and a half.

the only official explorer for robinhood chain is etherscan's own. anything else using the name is unaffiliated.

cl207 also added a $1.73m hype long and holds $3.18m of nvda at 15x, per basedfloyd.