US Senate · Open Source · CertiK · CLARITY Act · BitMine Immersion Technologies · Cointelegraph
On Monday, three Republican lawmakers announced the text of the bill lawmakers will tap to consider pushing crypto market
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Today in crypto, Democratic lawmakers continue to push for an ethics provision in the CLARITY Act as bipartisan support is necessary for to pass a Senate floor vote, a new report from CertiK found North Korea-linked hackers stole about $2.06 billion of the $3.4 billion lost in crypto hacks in 2025 and Ether treasury firm Bitmine says it has slowed down its Ether buys.
Key facts
- Between 2016 and early 2026, DPRK-linked actors stole an estimated $6.75 billion in cryptocurrency across 263 documented incidents, the report says, citing findings by independent onchain researcher
- CLARITY Act Event Market, as of Tuesday, UTC 9:25 PM
- We have decided to slow down our pace of weekly accumulation from >100,000 per week as we originally targeted reaching the ‘alchemy of 5%’ target in late 2026,” Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said
- In 2025, DPRK-linked groups were behind about 60% of the value stolen but only around 12% of total incidents, highlighting what CertiK describes as a focus on “precision and scale
Summary
The recently released text of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) in the US Senate Banking Committee is raising some eyebrows among experts before a scheduled Thursday markup for provisions on housing and the lack of ethics language. On Monday, three Republican lawmakers unveiled the text of the bill lawmakers will use to consider advancing crypto market structure legislation in the banking committee. However, the latest version includes provisions seemingly unrelated to crypto market structure.