
Ethereum, Base diverge on account abstraction standards
Ethereum and Base will implement separate account abstraction standards after interoperability talks failed, shifting integration burdens to wallet developers.
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Ethereum and Base will implement separate account abstraction standards after interoperability talks failed, shifting integration burdens to wallet developers.

Solana activated a mainnet upgrade on Tuesday that increases the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes, enabling support for zero-knowledge proofs and complex signature schemes.

Senate Democrats are preparing a counterproposal to the Republicans' revised CLARITY Act, citing dissatisfaction with crypto ethics language ahead of a key procedural vote.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that rapid AI progress risks losing human control or concentrating power, urging companies to adopt slower development and safety cases.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan projected a decline of more than 10% in third-quarter investment banking fees, causing shares to slide 5%.

Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETP, the first launched by a global systemically important bank, surpassed $600 million in assets shortly after its April debut.

Strategy repurchased $139.3 million of STRC preferred stock while holding its Bitcoin stack steady at 845,050 BTC for a second consecutive week.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies reported total holdings of approximately $15.8 billion and projected $334 million in annualized staking revenue after increasing its Ether reserves.

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act now requires cryptocurrency hardware and software wallet providers to report actively exploited bugs within 24 hours of awareness.

Reuters reports Nvidia is negotiating a $10 billion investment in Anthropic, which aims to raise up to $100 billion in an offering that could value the AI firm at $2 trillion.

CoinShares analyst James Butterfill notes that firmer core inflation may limit Bitcoin's near-term upside, while the U.S. Treasury’s struggling bond buyback program could eventually strengthen its medium-term case.

Bitcoin's daily golden cross reversed after BTC fell to $77,438, driven by a spike in CME-implied odds for a Federal Reserve rate hike.