A packed week for crypto and adjacent tech sectors is taking shape as the US Senate prepares for a key Sept. 15 vote on the CLARITY Act, a bill that has expanded to more than 630 pages and now faces scrutiny over ethics rules, stablecoin yield and protections for decentralized developers. Politico reported that Democratic senators were called to a Sunday meeting by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss their position, while Polymarket assigns only a 24% chance that the bill becomes law this year, even as the odds of clearing Tuesday’s cloture hurdle appear higher. Outside Washington, AI safety concerns jumped back into focus after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in model development, warning that agent swarms could outpace human control. Elon Musk and Sam Altman publicly agreed, and OpenAI reportedly put this year’s IPO plans on hold. The broader digest also tracks Blockstream’s refusal to pay a bounty after the Liquid Network exploit, Robinhood’s 61% month-on-month rise in August crypto volume to $17.5 billion, Revolut’s disclosure that scammers obtained customer data through a fake government email request, and renewed outflows from US spot Bitcoin ETFs. Together, the developments show regulation, infrastructure risk, AI governance and trading activity colliding in the same week.

Bybit said it has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against North Korea, the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and the Lazarus Group over the large-scale cyberattack that targeted the exchange in February 2025. The company said it also obtained a preliminary injunction freezing identified stolen digital assets held or moved by unidentified individuals and entities named as John Doe defendants. In granting a temporary restraining order, the court described the case as “one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in history” and said Bybit was likely to succeed on the merits. The exchange said the civil case is separate from a criminal investigation by U.S. law enforcement and is intended to create another legal path for asset recovery. Bybit added that it has recovered about $48.4 million so far and frozen about $30.5 million in related assets across more than 28 exchanges and custodians. It also linked those efforts to broader actions by German and Swiss authorities against eXch and Cryptomixer.io.

Drift said its April 1 exploit followed roughly six months of trust-building and social engineering, and it linked the case with medium-high confidence to the actors behind Radiant Capital’s 2024 hack.

Crystal Intelligence报告指出，自2018年以来，朝鲜Lazarus组织与韩国六起大型交易所攻击有关，确认被盗超1.2亿美元。韩国境内非法加密货币交易达71亿美元，其中64亿美元通过Hwanchigi洗钱网络流转。

CertiK, Chainalysis and Elliptic estimate North Korea-linked groups stole about $2.02 billion in 2025, close to 60% of global crypto theft, as exchanges and protocols face mounting pressure to improve screening and tracing.

Quantstamp's preliminary report on the Humanity Protocol hack reveals a phishing email led to the theft of $H tokens, with fingerprints linking to North Korean hackers. Token price crashed 89% after the exploit.

Layerzero Labs issued a statement on the $290M rsETH exploit, blaming KelpDAO's single-DVN setup and claiming zero contagion. Chainlink's Zach Rynes countered that validator centralization was the root cause, escalating the accountability debate.

North Korea's Lazarus Group stole $577 million from Drift Protocol and KelpDAO in April 2026, representing 76% of all crypto theft year-to-date, using social engineering and bridge vulnerabilities.