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Washington is moving fast on crypto. President Trump pushed executives to pass what he called a fair version of the Clarity Act, while the CFTC warned it would write its own rules if Congress stalls. The SEC, meanwhile, advanced its first formal framework for crypto fundraising — a rare moment of regulatory momentum all landing in the same week.
On a darker note, the internet's forgotten corners are becoming a hunting ground. Security researchers at Infoblox counted roughly sixty-five thousand expired domains being re-registered every single day in the first half of two thousand twenty-six. One threat actor alone controls more than ten thousand of those domains and is estimated to have spent over seven million dollars buying up old web addresses — exploiting the trust and traffic those names built up over years to push malware.
And Solana engineers have quietly crossed a milestone that's been a long time coming. The network just activated its first reduction in block timing since launch, meaning transactions now settle measurably faster. It's a technical win for a blockchain that's always marketed speed as its edge, and developers are watching closely to see how it holds under real-world load.
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