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Washington may be inching closer to a clearer framework for digital assets. Sources tell CoinDesk that a new draft of the Clarity Act could land as early as this week, a development the crypto industry has been watching closely. Still, significant hurdles remain before anything resembling law takes shape.

Switching gears to a finding that's drawing real attention from developers — a small but telling study comparing Claude Code and OpenCode found that Claude Code sends roughly thirty-three thousand tokens before it even reads your prompt, compared to around seven thousand for OpenCode. That difference adds up fast on your usage meter, and it raises genuine questions about efficiency and cost in agentic coding tools.

And in storage hardware, SanDisk has begun sampling its BiCS ten chip, a tenth-generation three-dimensional NAND flash design built alongside Kioxia. The technology packs three hundred thirty-two memory layers into a single die and could eventually enable five hundred twelve terabyte solid-state drives by two thousand twenty-seven. The catch — expect price tags north of three hundred thousand dollars at launch.

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