FinCEN withdrew its proposal to make about 15,000 institutions report foreign crypto mixer transactions, work it estimated at 1.47 million hours a year. Banks keep their general duty to report suspicious activity, so mixer exposure stays a monitoring job without its own form.
Perspective Coverage
10 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 25%
- Operator
- Operator 48%
- Investor
- Investor 27%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence68
Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money as a private DAI wallet that caps every transfer at $2,500 and all users' deposits combined at $50,000 a day. Raising either limit means a new contract that each user must opt into. The caps arrive while US law on privacy wallets remains unsettled.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence62
Kristin Smith becomes the Blockchain Association's interim CEO on October 17 and keeps her job as president of the Solana Policy Institute. The industry-wide group will share its chief executive with one chain's lobby while the Clarity Act sits stalled in the Senate.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 13%
- Operator
- Operator 45%
- Investor
- Investor 42%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence70
Brian Krebs reports a hacker selling searchable access to 153 million US and Canadian licences, with suspicion pointing at the vendor IDScan.net. Any age gate built on a document scan owns that exposure.
Perspective Coverage
7 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 26%
- Operator
- Operator 56%
- Investor
- Investor 18%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
The CLARITY Act stalled eleven votes short of a Senate floor debate
A 49-50 cloture vote left the crypto market-structure bill short of the 60 needed to open debate, so the SEC/CFTC jurisdictional split it would have created stays unwritten. Roadmaps dated against it now wait on a motion that failed its first vote.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives82
- Confidence66
Ways and Means takes up a crypto wash-sale extension worth $23.5bn over a decade
The September 16 markup pairs that revenue estimate with H.R. 9175, a bill letting miners and stakers wait until they sell before recognising income on newly created tokens. Bloomberg reported the schedule.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence45