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Solana is making a significant architectural move, with its Transaction V one update raising the transaction size limit from one thousand two hundred thirty two bytes to four thousand ninety six — more than three times larger. That extra room lets developers pack in multi-step trades, corporate wallet approvals, and privacy proofs in a single transaction, a practical edge over Ethereum's current constraints.
On the policy front, Senate Democrats are pushing back on Republican draft language in the Clarity Act, with members meeting late Monday to hammer out a counteroffer on crypto market structure provisions. The back-and-forth signals that while both parties want a framework, the details of who oversees what remain genuinely contested.
And in the sharpest exchange on AI governance in recent memory, President Trump dismissed safety concerns as a quote hoax, rejecting calls for greater safeguards just days after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that a mandatory kill switch for AI systems may eventually be necessary. The gap between the White House position and leading AI researchers has rarely looked wider.
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