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TLDR CRYPTO 2025-09-22

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01GENERAL

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02MARKETS & BUSINESS

DEMOCRATS PUSH FOR BIPARTISAN ROLE IN CRYPTO MARKET STRUCTURE BILL

Twelve Senate Democrats, including Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker, called for a bipartisan authorship process on the Clarity Act, arguing they should help draft the crypto market structure bill rather than merely comment on a GOP-led version. Their framework seeks stronger CFTC authority over spot markets, bans on elected officials profiting from crypto projects, and expanded funding for regulators.

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US TREASURY SEEKS COMMENT ON GENIUS ACT STABLECOIN RULES

The U.S. Treasury Department is inviting public feedback on its implementation of the GENIUS Act, the first federal crypto-specific law regulating payment stablecoins. Officials are seeking input on open questions, including tax treatment, foreign issuer participation, marketing restrictions, and how to balance state vs. federal oversight with BSA/AML compliance. Comments close on October 20, as the department prepares formal regulations following the law's passage under President Trump this summer.

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03INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

PROXIMARKET: MAKING PREDICTION MARKETS MORE THAN YES/NO

Proximarket allows users to bet on markets with more than simple binary outcomes. It uses embedding models for semantic similarity and pays out proportional to the accuracy of a user's prediction, making markets around news headlines, Elon tweets, and future words possible. It was built in a week and is still in testing stages.

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ETHEREUM FOUNDATION INTRODUCES DAI TEAM

The Ethereum Foundation's dAI Team aims to make Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer for AIs and the machine economy. It is focusing on the AI Economy on Ethereum that provides AI agents and robots payment, coordination, and governance capabilities without intermediaries, and a Decentralized AI Stack ensuring AI's future doesn't depend solely on centralized entities. The team will collaborate closely with Protocol and Ecosystem teams to link protocol improvements with AI builder needs while funding innovative public goods, continuing work on the ERC-8004 standard for AI agent identity verification and trustworthiness proofs. The initiative operates under the principle that Ethereum makes AI more trustworthy while AI makes Ethereum more useful, as intelligent agents require neutral base layers for value and reputation while Ethereum benefits by becoming that infrastructure layer and AI escapes lock-in to centralized platforms.

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04GUIDES & TUTORIALS

HOW TO SECRETLY ONBOARD 1B TELEGRAM USERS INTO CRYPTO

Hybrid dApps solve the fundamental problem of TON's 1 billion Telegram users being locked out of EVM's rich application ecosystem by running Solidity smart contract logic behind native TON user experiences, allowing users to interact through familiar TON wallets and Telegram interfaces without knowing complex EVM machinery operates behind the scenes. The three-layer architecture consists of standard TON/Telegram frontends, TAC infrastructure with distributed sequencer networks and automatic asset bridging, and existing Solidity contracts running on TAC EVM with full access to battle-tested DeFi primitives and mature tooling. Users connect TonKeeper wallets using standard TON Connect patterns while the TAC SDK handles all cross-chain complexity, including token locking, bridging, and address translation, with native TON and jettons automatically working as ERC-20 tokens on the EVM side. The system enables developers to deploy once and serve both EVM and TON users from day one, leveraging proven Solidity contracts without rewrites while providing unified liquidity flows and network effects, with transactions feeling completely native to TON users despite complex cross-chain operations involving consensus, asset bridging, and smart contract execution happening transparently in the background.

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STABLECOIN-ENABLED MARKETS

With nearly $300 billion stablecoins in circulation and significant regulatory progress through the GENIUS Act, White House Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, and the SEC's Project Crypto initiatives, the focus is shifting from payments to new markets uniquely enabled by stablecoins' 24/7 movement capabilities. Historically, new markets have driven stablecoin adoption more than payments, with crypto exchanges in Asia fueling Tether's rise as traders held USDT as a store of value, and DeFi's 2020 boom providing USDC with venues demanding digital dollars. Three promising categories include new leverage instruments requiring instantaneous funding where stablecoins enable instant collateral deposits versus multi-day traditional wire transfers, company-to-company lending where businesses holding cash in stablecoins can engage in shorter-term capital markets, and onchain liquidity provision, and global lotteries leveraging crypto's ability to accept and distribute capital worldwide with programmable proceeds.

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05MISCELLANEOUS

LOW-RISK DEFI COULD BE ETHEREUM'S “GOOGLE SEARCH” MOMENT

“Low-risk DeFi” (e.g., payments, savings, synthetic assets, and fully collateralized lending) may become Ethereum's foundational revenue driver, similar to how search monetized Google. With Ethereum DeFi losses now near historical lows and yields on stablecoins becoming competitive with TradFi, these products are emerging as both safer and culturally aligned with Ethereum's mission of global financial inclusion. Unlike speculative frenzies, low-risk DeFi is a sustainable use case that delivers real-world value while still generating the economic activity to sustain ETH and the ecosystem. Ethereum has found its anchor application, one that is both profitable and principled.

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ETHEREUM AS A GLOBAL WEALTH ENGINE

Low-risk DeFi could replicate for the world what structured financial products did for the US. It can fuel the middle class, expand education, and drive entrepreneurship. Tools like mortgages and student loans acted as leverage on human potential, but billions globally remain excluded from similar access. Ethereum's emerging ecosystem of savings and lending can democratize these opportunities, enabling billions everywhere to compound wealth and improve their lives.

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