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Say goodbye to Uniswap as you know it. The Senate's new CLARITY Act is a direct hit on DeFi, engineered to protect the banks. They are outright banning passive stablecoin yield. Banks are terrified lawmakers with projections of a $6.6 trillion deposit flight to crypto, so Washington stepped in to kill your yield and protect the legacy system. Even worse, the bill aims to classify anyone running a DeFi front-end as a financial intermediary. Just hosting a web interface for a smart contract will suddenly require bank-level AML compliance and audits. They are rushing to force this through by May before the midterm elections make the bill politically radioactive. But there is a massive blind spot in their plan. They can regulate web domains and target companies, but they cannot ban math. Decentralized smart contracts live on-chain. Real developers will keep building the permissionless solutions the market demands, and DeFi will simply route around the damage.



🚨 BREAKING: CLARITY Act deal: no yield on stablecoin balances, only activity-based rewards

We’re excited to announce three promotions across the Foundation. Bruno Martins, formerly Chief Architect and twice acting CTO, has been appointed Chief Technology Officer. Bruno will oversee protocol engineering and will bring his deep expertise in blockchain engineering, applied cryptography, and key management systems to drive Algorand’s future innovations. Will Beaumont, formerly Head of Pera Wallet, has been promoted to Global Head of Product & Integrations. Will will be responsible for product strategy and solutions delivery across both business and engineering, including the Pera Wallet. Brian Whippo, former Head of Developer Relations, has been promoted to Senior Director of Integrations & Developer Tooling. Brian will be responsible for developer relations and developer tooling, and he will build out a new practice to help businesses, ecosystem partners, and AI agents bring new activity on-chain.

🎺TRUMPETS BLARING!🎺 HEAR YE, HEAR YE ALGORAND BUILDERS! We finally slayed that long term WalletConnect gremlin! ⚔️ Sessions are now rock-solid, random disconnects are gone, and your dApps are about to feel magically smooth 🪄 Update your dApp to Pera Connect v1.5.2 and watch the magic happen: github.com/perawallet/con…




🚨NEW: New details are emerging about the latest legislative text outlining a compromise on stablecoin yield and rewards, along with early reactions from crypto industry leaders who reviewed it today. According to an internal stakeholder email shared with me, the proposal would prohibit platforms from offering yield “directly or indirectly” for holding a stablecoin or in a manner that resembles a bank deposit. The restriction would apply broadly to digital asset service providers (exchanges, brokers, etc.) and their affiliates to limit workarounds, and would bar anything “economically or functionally equivalent” to interest. The proposal would also permit activity-based rewards tied to user activity, including loyalty, promotional, or subscription programs, provided they are not deemed economically or functionally equivalent to interest. It would also direct the @SECGov, @CFTC, and @USTreasury to jointly define permissible rewards and establish anti-evasion rules within one year. One industry leader who reviewed the text today tells me the draft is a “departure” from what had been previously discussed with the White House, warning the “economic equivalence” standard is vague and could be interpreted more restrictively by future regulators. They also point to limits on tying rewards to balances or transaction amounts, which could make incentives difficult to structure. “Overall, this is a more narrow and restrictive approach toward crypto,” they said. Another says the text is “largely in line with expectations” and reflects a balanced outcome, preserving transaction-based incentives while making clear stablecoins cannot function like interest-bearing deposit accounts. “This is the best possible result,” they said, noting that the text is broader than the initial Tillis-Alsobrooks proposal, which would have been more restrictive on crypto. Up next: Bank reps are set to review the text tomorrow.





A lot of people on CT hate Ethereum bc it breaks their worldview. Bitcoin is static. Alt L1s are VC-funded, ship-fast tech cultures. Ethereum sits in the middle: decentralized, messy, evolving, with only light coordination from the EF. It gets attacked from all sides. But that’s exactly why it will continue to win. It’s built for the long term, and aligned with a positive, open vision of the world.



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