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Sky has published a ranking of smart contract auditors that will surprise a lot of people. ChainSecurity and Cantina are in the top tier. OpenZeppelin, Trail of Bits and ConsenSys Diligence are in the mid tier, alongside 30 other firms. CertiK doesn’t appear at all.The list is part of an Atlas edit that Sky holders are voting on until October 22. The ranking will get the attention, but I’d argue the rules underneath it matter more. For the first time, Sky is spelling out exactly when it will trust an audit it didn’t commission, and the standard is stricter than…

Every stablecoin yield product answers the same awkward question.Your USDC doesn’t appreciate. It’s engineered not to. So when a platform offers you 4%, 8%, or 20% on a dollar-pegged token, that money is coming from somewhere specific — and the “somewhere” is the only thing that matters. Most comparison posts rank these by headline APY. That’s exactly backwards. A 12% yield funded by a sustainable market mechanism is a completely different product from a 12% yield funded by token emissions that run out in six months. So this ranking does it the other way round. Six ways to earn yield…

TLDR: White House crypto leadership has no publicly named successor after Patrick Witt announced his departure and return to the private sector. The departures of Witt, Bo Hines and Harry Jung leave questions about who will coordinate presidential priorities with lawmakers. A White House official said cryptocurrency and the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act remain priorities for President Donald Trump. Federal agencies continue digital asset rulemaking as the midterm elections approach and Congress faces further legislative work in 2027. White House crypto leadership faces a vacancy after Patrick Witt announced his departure from government service last week. Witt, executive director…

AI agents are software tools that plan and complete tasks with limited human input. In 2026, surveys show that more companies are buying them and putting them to work. They also show that results are uneven and that running costs are rising. This article pulls together the main statistics from five recent sources. Two are original surveys from G2 and McKinsey. Three are reviews that compare many studies. One warning applies to every number below. Surveys ask different people different questions, so the figures do not always line up. Why AI Agent Adoption Numbers Do Not Match Reported adoption of…

The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. This Week in Crypto Law This week’s developments show courts and regulators addressing crypto through several distinct legal frameworks. A federal court declined to erase a settled CFTC enforcement case despite the agency’s change in policy. The OCC documented banking restrictions affecting digital-asset businesses, while litigation over Illinois’s unusual crypto transaction tax moved toward an expedited decision. In Europe, USDC became the first e-money token classified as significant under MiCA. A major English asset-recovery proceeding also produced an important choice-of-law ruling concerning 61,000 seized bitcoin. Federal Court Refuses to…

Michael Saylor has hinted at another Bitcoin purchase for Strategy after the company reported holdings of 848,250 BTC, acquired for approximately $64 billion, in its latest weekly disclosure. Summary Michael Saylor hinted at further Bitcoin accumulation, although Strategy has not confirmed another purchase this weekend. Strategy’s latest filing shows holdings of 848,250 BTC, acquired for approximately $64 billion including transaction costs. The company bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million during the week ending October 11, its latest disclosure. Strategy spent $192.4 million buying back STRC shares, nearly nine times its weekly Bitcoin purchase expenditure. Bitcoin traded near $81,000 on October…

Tokenized real-world assets, often called RWAs, are digital tokens on a blockchain that represent ownership of an off-chain asset. The asset can be a government bond, a loan, a fund share, a stock or a bar of gold. Supporters point to faster settlement, smaller minimum purchases and assets that can serve as collateral. The market has grown quickly in 2026, but the totals depend on who is counting. Trackers report anywhere from about $19 billion to more than $60 billion, because they define tokenized assets in different ways. This article pulls together data from several recent reports to show where…

Cronos’s parallel execution engine was benchmarked at up to 60,000 transactions per second. However, in the same 24-hour period evaluated, the entire chain processed roughly 79,000 transactions total. That gap provides the clearest starting point for examining the Cronos EVM v1.8 mainnet upgrade, targeted for October 22, 2026, alongside its claims of shipping parallel execution.Reviewing Cronos’s release notes, developer blog posts, and code changes helps separate new architectural updates from existing features, while establishing how to independently verify parallel execution claims.The Upgrade Breakdown and Key Architectural ScopeThe Cronos EVM v1.8 upgrade targets mainnet deployment on October 22, 2026. According to…

TL;DR: Circle says it generated roughly $1.4 billion in first-half 2026 revenue while spending $819 million on distribution partners and related costs. The disclosure highlights the expense of building a widely used stablecoin payment network. Circle’s USDC business is generating substantial revenue, but its latest disclosures show how much of that income is needed to support distribution and infrastructure. The stablecoin issuer reported approximately $1.4 billion of revenue in the first half of 2026. It said around $819 million went to partners and transaction-related costs, while another $473 million supported operational, compliance and technology spending. That leaves a much smaller…

TLDR: Ethereum Derivatives carried $30.59 billion in futures open interest, although the aggregate book slipped 0.42% during the latest 24-hour period. Calls represented 61.75% of Ethereum options open interest, but 24-hour put volume narrowly exceeded call volume, showing balanced near-term flow. Long liquidations exceeded short liquidations over both 24-hour and 12-hour windows, while positive funding kept leveraged bulls paying shorts. Max pain levels differed across Deribit, OKX, and Binance for October and December, so they do not form one market-wide price target. Ethereum derivatives are sending mixed messages as ETH trades inside a weekly range. The token moved between $2,324…