Crypto: 5th August 2025

• The SEC shifts to a pro-crypto stance under new Chairman Paul Atkins, introducing 'Project Crypto' to regulate digital assets with a more supportive regulatory approach.

• Stablecoins are enhancing digital currency functionality, enabling seamless transactions with reduced volatility and increasing user confidence in cryptocurrencies as viable monetary substitutes.

• Latvian startup Handwave launches a biometric palm payment alternative to Amazon One, offering European retailers an affordable competitive solution for contactless payments.

• The U.S. investigates Brazil's Pix payment platform in a trade dispute, highlighting tensions around digital payment systems and their impact on Big Tech wallets.

More correct predictions , and the role of IQ and forecasting (greyenlightenment​.com). Analyzing Bitcoin shorting strategies, market predictions, Trump administration crypto report, and the importance of IQ in effective forecasting

Nasdaq-listed Mill City Ventures Earmarks $441M Toward Sui Treasury (cosmicmeta​.ai). Mill City Ventures allocates $441M to Sui tokens, signaling a shift towards blockchain integration in corporate treasuries amid evolving financial landscapes

The Flows Behind the Crypto Market’s Rise to $4T (coinmetrics​.io). Bitcoin's realized cap exceeds $1T as market demand, spot ETF inflows, and regulatory clarity on stablecoins boost crypto to a $4T valuation

Cryptocurrency Regulations and Execution Orders in 2025: All You Need to Know (blog​.quicknode​.com). 2025 brings significant cryptocurrency regulations, including the GENIUS Act, MiCA, and executive orders, shaping DeFi and defining digital asset classifications

lean Ethereum (blog​.ethereum​.org). Lean Ethereum vision focuses on fort mode security and beast mode performance, leveraging hash-based cryptography and proposing significant upgrades across L1 sublayers

Introducing Chainlink State Pricing for DEX-Traded Assets (blog​.chain​.link). Chainlink State Pricing enhances DEX asset valuation, addressing liquidity and accuracy for crypto markets with low trading volumes, supported by prominent DeFi protocols

Introducing EigenDA V2 on Mainnet at 100 MB/s (blog​.eigencloud​.xyz). EigenDA V2 launched on Mainnet, delivering 100 MB/s throughput, supporting Ethereum rollups, optimized for high performance with features like custom database LittDB

EigenCloud for Every Chain (blog​.eigencloud​.xyz). EigenCloud enables Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVSs) across multiple blockchains, providing decentralized trust and enhancing security with examples from Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos

Does Anyone Still Care About NFTs? (Yuga Labs, LLC v. Ripps) — Guest Blog Post (blog​.ericgoldman​.org). Yuga Labs sues Ryder Ripps for trademark infringement over NFTs, raising issues of ownership, fair use, and market confusion in the NFT space

(Flirting With Models S7E18) Bringing OTC On-Chain and the VariationalOMNI Perp Dex (quant​.am). Corey Hoffstein and Edward Yu discuss OTC markets' evolution, VariationalOMNI decentralized exchange, and the balance of risk management in crypto trading

The forthcoming era of LLM tokenomics (no-kill-switch​.ghost​.io). LLM tokenomics revolutionizes software development, introducing dynamic resource allocation with tokens alongside traditional budgets for enhanced efficiency and competitive advantage

Open Source Generic NFT Minting dApp by Cosmic Meta (cosmicmeta​.ai). Cosmic Meta's open source NFT minting dApp offers a community-driven platform for easy creation and management of NFTs using Ethereum ERC-721 smart contracts

Celer Announces cBridge Support for Redbelly (blog​.celer​.network). Celer's cBridge now supports Redbelly, enhancing cross-chain transactions for tokenized real-world assets through seamless liquidity bridging with reduced slippage

Introducing Solazy – A Solana Static Analyser & Reverse Engineering tool (fuzzinglabs​.com). Solazy is a modular static analysis and reverse engineering tool for auditing Solana smart contracts, integrating disassembly and vulnerability scanning in one CLI interface

Why I just left my VP job to build in the chaos (bitcoinperception​.com). Fernando leaves Blockstream to launch Perception, a tool addressing narrative warfare and media fragmentation in Bitcoin and traditional finance

Pallas, Vesta, and Zcash (johndcook​.com). Zcash utilizes Pallas and Vesta elliptic curves for zero-knowledge proofs, named after Greek and Roman goddesses, respectively

Lewis Carroll and Zero Knowledge Proofs (johndcook​.com). Zcash utilizes whimsical elliptic curves named after Lewis Carroll characters in its zero-knowledge proofs for user privacy

My doorlock and my digital sovereignty (jan​.wildeboer​.net). Exploring digital sovereignty through a review of smart door locks, focusing on Welock SECBN51's offline functionality and concerns over centralized services like Tuya

Update #14 - More Information on Suspected Lubian.com Hack (milksad​.info). Investigation reveals over $3.4 billion in Bitcoins stolen from Lubian.com due to weak wallet security, with new findings on PRNG vulnerabilities

SAEL: Leveraging Large Language Models with Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection (arxiv:cs). SAEL framework enhances smart contract vulnerability detection using LLMs, adaptive mixture-of-experts, prompt-tuning, and fine-grained code explanations

On LLM-Assisted Generation of Smart Contracts from Business Processes (arxiv:cs). Explores LLMs for smart contract generation from business processes, introducing an automated evaluation framework and highlighting reliability challenges in code production

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System (arxiv:econ). Cycles protocol enables decentralized clearing and settlement, addressing liquidity challenges for small firms through optimized payment network structures and diverse asset utilization

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