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The Senate will leave Washington without voting on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, pushing crypto's market structure bill into September at the earliest. Lawmakers return Sept. 14 with three weeks to work with.

Majority Leader John Thune confirmed the delay through a spokesperson, saying Democrats were "insistent on no Clarity vote" and that the bill would be queued up first thing when the Senate comes back. Instead, senators will spend Friday morning on a government funding measure, a Russia sanctions bill and a block of nominations.

Republicans including Josh Hawley and Jerry Moran have said they will oppose the bill without changes, and Democrats still want a tougher ethics provision aimed at President Donald Trump.

The bipartisan Clarity Act ethics deal senators have pitched to President Donald Trump would force him to sell his crypto businesses. It would also let him defer the capital gains taxes on those holdings, potentially for years, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Trump disclosed more than $1.4 billion in income from his family's crypto ventures last year, including memecoin royalties and World Liberty Financial token sales. 

Senate Democrats conditioned their support for the Clarity Act on ethics language that stops officials from profiting off crypto while in office. The proposed ethics addendum has not been released publicly and is still being negotiated with the White House.

A volunteer group pointing AI models at Bitcoin codebases says it has filed 4,962 findings across 390 projects, including 85 critical and 635 high-severity issues. "Situation is extremely bad," wrote “Calle,” the pseudonymous developer behind the Cashu ecash protocol who is coordinating the effort.

Calle said the 16-person Bitcoin Red Team is averaging 2.31 high or critical findings per person per hour, roughly 27 hours into the campaign. Project owners have verified most of the critical reports, Calle said, with proofs of concept reproduced in local test environments before disclosure.

Calle apologized to maintainers buried in reports and said the group is still learning to filter noise. Rob Hamilton, who built the automated harness used by the team, said routing findings to the right people is harder than finding them.

The pure-play Bitcoin treasury strategy may be dying, and Strategy's own credit-based pivot is showing cracks.

In this week's Bits + Bips Premium, we break down why the pure-play BTC treasury play is unraveling, what's replacing it, and what it all means for MSTR.

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Kathleen Allman, mother of late Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman, has asked a Delaware court to confirm that she controls the tokenization company and that Ian De Bode is no longer its CEO, according to The Block. Allman alleges that De Bode wrongly declared himself chief executive after her son's death in May, with no board in place to appoint him, The Block first reported Thursday, citing filings in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Nathan Allman died as Ondo's CEO, sole director and controlling shareholder, so his voting power passed into his estate, CoinDesk quoted his mother as saying in the filings. A Hawaii court named her his personal representative on June 26, she said. She reconstituted the board and, at a July 24 meeting, voted to strip De Bode of every role, according to the reports.

De Bode has reportedly called the claims "meritless" and said Ondo retains the backing of its lead investors and the Ondo Foundation.

Yesterday's stream was postponed to today due to unavoidable circumstances, but the topic is only getting more timely.

Onchain vaults have quietly grown into a $67 billion market, right as SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that some could trigger federal securities law.

Today, Sun Raghupathi, cofounder and CEO of Veda, sits down with Laura Shin to unpack how vaults actually work, what Stream Finance's collapse revealed about curator risk, and why he thinks Peirce's statement is a bullish signal rather than a warning shot.

Tune in live today.

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