Odaily News: Anthropic is preparing a class of shares with additional voting rights for CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders, aimed at helping the founding team withstand pressure from external shareholders. This would mark the first time Anthropic's leadership holds super-voting rights. Given the co-founders' relatively low shareholdings in the company, this arrangement is believed to help maintain the founding team's control over the company. Anthropic also plans to retain its existing system of non-shareholder trustees and use a special class of shares to elect a majority of board members, further reducing external shareholders' influence on corporate governance. (The Information)
Odaily News: Anthropic is expected to launch its IPO within the coming weeks. The company's Q2 revenue more than doubled compared to Q1. (Cailian Press)
Odaily News, according to MSX.COM data, storage, optical communications, AI cloud services and other sectors saw significant declines. SanDisk, SK Hynix, and Seagate Technology fell over 9%, while Western Digital and Micron Technology fell over 7%; Coherent fell over 12%, Lumentum fell over 9%, and Corning fell over 7%; CoreWeave fell over 12%, Nebius fell over 7%, and Applied Optoelectronics fell over 8%.
Odaily News Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on his personal channel that Telegram has applied for the .gram domain. If the application is approved, Telegram users will be able to obtain second-level domains corresponding to their usernames in the future—for example, @durov could get durov.gram.
Durov stated that users will also be able to create interactive websites hosted by Telegram, requiring only a single prompt to complete the creation process.
Odaily News: According to Dune data, on August 18, Flap token launches reached 47,551 tokens, an increase of approximately 24.4% compared to 38,231 tokens on August 17. During the same period, Pump.fun token launches reached 39,247 tokens, and Four.Meme token launches totaled 1,165 tokens.
Previously reported, after being listed on Binance Alpha, the Meme coin "Niu Lai" briefly surpassed a market cap of $50 million, hitting a new all-time high. Its market cap has now pulled back to around $43.42 million.
Odaily News - Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine stated that the window for the Clarity Act to pass before the November midterm elections is closing rapidly. Speaking at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026, he estimated that the probability of the bill becoming law before the midterms is only about 10%.
Whitehouse-Levine described the bill as currently being in "August recess purgatory." He noted that the Senate has been working on the legislation for over a year, but as time in the current Congress runs out, completing the legislative process is becoming increasingly difficult.
He added that the procedural motion scheduled for September 15 is only the first step in a series of votes needed to move the bill forward, so he remains "hopeful, but realistic about the odds."
This assessment is more pessimistic than that of prediction markets. Polymarket currently shows a 21% probability of the Clarity Act being signed into law by year-end, with trading volume exceeding $7 million on the relevant market; Kalshi puts the probability at 23%, down from 50% less than a month ago.
According to Odaily, Patrick Witt, the White House's chief crypto advisor, stated that despite ongoing controversies surrounding stablecoin yields and conflicts of interest involving Trump's crypto holdings, he remains optimistic that the Clarity Act will ultimately become law.
Speaking at the SALT annual conference in Wyoming on Tuesday, Witt noted that lawmakers are currently in the August recess and are expected to return to Washington in mid-September. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has scheduled a procedural vote on the bill for September 15.
Witt said the White House will sit down with Democrats to discuss points of disagreement and work to secure solid votes by September 15. He expressed that he is "genuinely optimistic and bullish" on the bill.
The Clarity Act, spanning over 600 pages, aims to establish a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for the U.S. crypto industry, but has faced multiple setbacks over the past few months. Key disputes currently include how to treat stablecoin yields, as well as Democratic concerns over conflicts of interest involving Trump and his family's crypto business ventures.
Overall, the September 15 vote will be a critical juncture for whether the Clarity Act can continue to advance. While the White House is attempting to send positive signals, the bill still requires bipartisan support, particularly in reaching compromises on issues such as stablecoins, ethics provisions, and regulatory division of labor.
Odaily News, Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty stated that September 15 will be a key date for determining whether the U.S. "Clarity Act" crypto market structure bill can continue to advance.
Alderoty said at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026 that the Senate will hold its first procedural motion on September 15, namely whether to enter deliberation. The motion requires 60 votes of support to open the door for the bill's subsequent progress. He noted that this day will serve as a "barometer" for judging whether the Clarity Act can still move forward in Congress.
Alderoty also serves as Chairman of the National Crypto Association. He stated that even if market structure legislation hits a roadblock, both the SEC and CFTC have publicly stated that they will continue to advance crypto regulatory rulemaking.
He believes that the two regulatory agencies' closer coordination in recent times is a positive signal. In the past, the SEC and CFTC did not always work collaboratively, but now both sides are engaging in closer cooperation around crypto asset regulation.
However, Alderoty emphasized that what the industry most hopes to see remains congressional legislation, because legislation is more stable than mere regulatory rules and harder to overturn. He stated that regardless of the outcome, the U.S. will see crypto regulation; the difference lies in whether the framework is established through a more enduring congressional bill or advanced by regulators acting alone.
Odaily News - VanEck stated that Bitcoin's nearly 11-month pullback may be nearing its end and could be entering an accumulation phase.
VanEck senior investment analyst Patrick Bush, along with digital assets research head Matthew Sigel and other researchers, noted that 8 of the 12 indicators in their "Bitcoin Capitulation Check" are currently in the capitulation zone. Over the past three months, all 12 indicators have at some point dipped into capitulation territory.
The researchers believe these readings suggest the market has already undergone a phase resembling "Bitcoin price capitulation," and may now be approaching or already entering an accumulation period.
As of Tuesday, Bitcoin was trading at approximately $64,700. Since early June, Bitcoin has largely oscillated within the $58,000 to $66,500 range, still about 48% below its all-time high of approximately $126,300 set in October 2025.
Meanwhile, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs just recorded their strongest single-day inflows since early May, providing some market support. However, long-term holders have sold approximately 356,000 BTC over the past month, bringing their share of total supply below 60%, indicating the market structure is still in a rebalancing phase.
Odaily News: BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on X platform, stating that the California Public Employees' Retirement System has disclosed holding 381,048 shares of bitcoin treasury company Strategy, valued at $35.5 million. More than 2 million state employees are gaining bitcoin exposure through the treasury company. The fund is the largest pension fund in the United States.
