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The digital asset industry spent more than $13 million on lobbying in the first half of 2026, with about $8 million tied to the Clarity Act push. Despite major spending by Coinbase, Kraken, trade groups and outside firms, the U.S. Senate did not advance the market structure bill.

Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade has entered public testnet as developers assess whether the network can sharply reduce transaction finality. The change targets a move from about 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, a shift that could matter for exchanges, bridges, merchants and other high-speed applications.

Ostium was hit by an $18 million USDC exploit after an attacker used a registered component of its own price-feed automation system to submit manipulated future-dated oracle reports. The incident adds to a growing run of oracle and keeper-related attacks across DeFi infrastructure.