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This Week in Crypto (September 14–21): The CLARITY Act Dies 49–50, the Fed Hikes for the First Time Since 2023, and the Agencies Go Around Congress Two Days Later

The biggest item this week in crypto is a bill that didn't pass. The CLARITY Act failed a Senate procedural vote 49–50 on September 15, over ethics language about politicians' token holdings rather than anything in the market-structure text. The Fed then hiked for the

What is WalletConnect, and when do you actually need it?

WalletConnect isn't a wallet or an app you download. How it links your wallet to dApps, when you need it, and why signing is the real risk.

Sweeper bots: why funds vanish the second you refill a compromised wallet

Sent gas to your wallet and watched it vanish? That's a sweeper bot. Why you can't outrun it, and what to do once your key has leaked.

Fake wallet apps: how to verify you downloaded the real one

Fake wallet apps keep passing app store review. Five checks to confirm your wallet is the real one before you type in a seed phrase.

This Week in Crypto (September 7–14): Blockstream Refuses a $47M Ransom, the CLARITY Act Gets a 630-Page Rewrite, and Bitcoin ETFs Sell While Ether Squeezes Past $2,600

The defining story this week in crypto was a refusal. The attackers who drained Blockstream's Liquid sidechain returned 85% of the bitcoin, asked to be paid for the rest, and were told no. Elsewhere: Senate Republicans rewrote the CLARITY Act five days before its vote, a hot core

AI agents with a wallet: what they can spend, and what stops them

An AI agent lost $175,000 to a Morse code message, with no key stolen and no contract exploited. What actually limits an agent.

What is blind signing, and why it keeps draining wallets

Two teams with multisigs and hardware wallets lost $1.55B to signatures they could not read. What blind signing is, and what to check.

This Week in Crypto (August 31–September 7): Liquid Loses 95% of Its Bitcoin to a Cache Bug, Twenty-One Banks Launch a Dollar, and the House Leaves Two Days After Crypto's Big Vote

The largest crypto theft this week involved no stolen key. Blockstream's Liquid sidechain lost about 95% of its bitcoin on Saturday because a caching shortcut let someone mint coins that were never there, and the federation signed the withdrawal correctly. Elsewhere: twenty-one of the world's

Coin98 Super Wallet | August Sync 2026

August was a month of strengthening trust and expanding the Coin98 experience — from earning an AAA security rating from CertiK to connecting with the community at Conviction 2026.

Zero-knowledge proofs, explained without the cryptography

Google Wallet proves your age without your birthdate. What a zero-knowledge proof claims, where it runs, and why ZK does not mean private.

What is a bonding curve? The pricing math behind token launchpads

The price on a launchpad is a formula you can read: what a bonding curve is, what graduation costs, and why 98.6% of tokens never make it.

This Week in Crypto (August 17–24): The SEC Publishes Regulation Crypto Assets, $4B of Shorts Get Liquidated, and a DeFi Vault Gets Voted Out of Its Own Money

If last week in crypto was about things that didn't happen, this week was about all of them happening at once. The SEC meeting canceled on August 13 returned on August 18 as a published proposal, with no meeting at all. The Treasury doubled its bond buybacks, and

What is the mempool, and why is your transaction sitting in it?

Your transaction isn't broken, it's outbid. What the mempool is, how long a pending BTC send can wait, and the three ways to unstick it.

What is a UTXO, and why does Bitcoin track money this way?

Bitcoin stores no balances, only chunks called UTXOs. That's why sending BTC hands you a new address and a fee set by your deposit history.