🚨 LATEST: Senator Lummis says the CLARITY Act would protect customer assets when crypto projects fail, citing Terra’s $40B collapse.

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🔎 RESEARCH: Bringing private credit onchain is not just a distribution problem.

The bigger challenge is aligning three layers: retail access, disciplined underwriting and enforceable claims.

Structured-access hybrid models keep funding and ownership onchain, while borrower checks, physical collateral and default recovery remain within regulated legal frameworks.

That matters for SMEs, whose loans are often backed by equipment, vehicles, real estate or inventory rather than crypto assets.

8lends illustrates this structure: it operates as the retail-facing distribution and settlement layer, while Maclear AG, a FINMA-supervised financial intermediary, underwrites the loans, registers collateral and manages enforcement.

Read the full report:

https://s3.cointelegraph.com/reports/8lends_report.pdf

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Crypto industry stakeholders will hold a call with Republican leadership later this morning for an update on the latest CLARITY Act text.

h/t: Eleanor Terrett

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🇺🇸 BIG: The U.S. House has officially passed a bill that would ban members of Congress from engaging in insider trading.

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🚨 ALERT: Blockaid detected a ~24.15M $USDC exploit on AFX, a third-party bridge protocol on Arbitrum.

Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder says the native Arbitrum bridge itself was not hacked or exploited and they are investigating.

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🚨 JUST IN: BitMEX will shut down operations on Sept. 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent company.

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