GENDAQ has officially joined GWDC 2026 KOREA as an Innovation Partner, according to Techub News. The event is scheduled for Sept. 29-30, 2026 at the aT Center in Seoul, South Korea. Organizers said the conference will bring together political and business leaders, industry participants, and developers to discuss Web3, AI, on-chain infrastructure, and the digital asset ecosystem. The event is hosted by Web3Labs and co-organized by Techub News, HypaiLabs, and TokenPost, with support from the Hong Kong-Korea Web3 Policy Promotion Alliance. Under the theme “For Builders, By Builders,” the conference plans to feature keynote speeches, technical forums, project showcases, business matchmaking, and a hackathon. GENDAQ describes itself as a global digital securities market and said FXH Token is its first tokenized stock digital security. The company says it is building a Web4.0 on-chain NASDAQ that links traditional capital with on-chain financial infrastructure. Registration for both the conference and the hackathon is now open. The hackathon is expected to attract more than 500 developers worldwide and aims to generate more than 100 innovative projects.

The U.S. Senate is set to vote at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 15 on a cloture motion tied to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633). The vote would not decide whether the bill becomes law. It would only determine whether senators can formally begin debate and offer amendments. Even so, the procedural vote may prove decisive because failing to clear 60 votes could effectively end the bill’s path in 2026. The legislation is designed to draw a legal line between the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in digital asset markets. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats, but media reports say the caucus is not fully united, with Rand Paul and Josh Hawley identified as opponents and Thom Tillis signaling he would not support the measure without tougher ethics language. That leaves the bill needing at least seven Democratic or independent votes, and possibly more. Prediction market pricing remains cautious. On Polymarket, the contract asking whether the CLARITY Act will be signed into law in 2026 was still pricing the chance at 17.5% on Sept. 10. The revised text released this month made targeted changes on nominally decentralized protocols, DeFi scope, and federal credit unions, but left the main political disputes over ethics, non-custodial developer protections, and stablecoin yield largely untouched.

Developer 0xBeans is building The Standard Reserve with roughly 4,000 lines of immutable smart-contract code, framing it as a new onchain monetary system without a DAO, voting body, or committee. The white paper was released on Aug. 23, and the project is now in the audit and whitelist allocation phase, with a planned launch on Robinhood Chain. Although there is no tradable token or NFT yet, the protocol has already become one of the most discussed new DeFi designs on crypto Twitter. The Uniswap Foundation has funded its audit costs, and onchain figures including zac.eth have publicly said they secured genesis access. At the center of the design is a direct response to Olympus DAO’s collapse. Instead of fixed emissions, The Standard Reserve ties issuance to net ETH flows in an official ETH/$STANDARD Uniswap v4 pool. Positive net inflows expand issuance and route fees toward reserve accumulation, while negative flows cut issuance and redirect fees to buybacks and burns. The system also combines Charter NFTs, Branch expansion, Dutch auctions, exit fees, a 1 billion token cap, and delayed token minting through internal accounting. Supporters see a more adaptive policy engine; critics will likely focus on whether unminted balances and liquidity depth could still produce concentrated sell pressure once the system goes live.

ChainFeeds’ Sept. 11 research briefing combined a policy news roundup with five long-form pieces spanning meme launchpads, AI compute markets, post-quantum zk proofs, tokenized equities on Solana, and Ethereum core development. The newsletter highlighted a revised CLARITY Act proposed by Republican lawmakers that would require non-decentralized DeFi protocols to register with the CFTC, Polymarket’s first CFO hire tied to a planned $1 billion fundraising effort, updated tokenomics from FLOP, a reported $100 million investment plan by Nasdaq Ventures into Kraken parent Payward at a $21 billion valuation, and Bitrace’s note that Fulilai Guarantee has started removing money-laundering merchants, possibly due to OFAC sanctions. The research selections then moved across several themes. One focused on Robinhood Chain’s meme launchpad race, where Pons and LONG are pushing fee-sharing and tokenized-stock trading. Another, by Pantera Capital partner Jay Yu, argued that GPU compute could evolve into a commodity market with benchmark pricing similar to power markets. The briefing also covered a16z’s release of Lattice Jolt, a post-quantum zkVM built on lattice cryptography, Pump.fun’s rollout of custom quote assets including tokenized U.S. equities, and Four Pillars’ review of Ethereum’s August EIP pipeline, testnet work, and changing assumptions around Layer 2 networks.

Foresight profiled Standard Reserve, a new on-chain project that describes itself as a “chain central bank.” Unlike earlier algorithmic stablecoin experiments, it does not aim to peg a token to the U.S. dollar. Instead, STANDARD is designed to maintain a basic, stable price backed by a hard asset with broad consensus: tokenized gold. The project caps supply at 1 billion STANDARD, uses charter and branch structures to distribute issuance rights, and adjusts minting, buybacks, and burns based on net ETH flows in the ETH/STANDARD trading pair.

Gold prices rose slightly on Thursday as the U.S. dollar weakened and concerns over the U.S. budget deficit persisted. Kelvin Wong, an analyst at OANDA, said those factors are supporting gold in the medium term. Markets are also watching remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Waller for clues on the direction of monetary policy. At the same time, the U.S. Treasury’s expanded purchases of long-dated bonds have added to concerns about dollar weakness. Gold gained more than 5% last week. Separately, Qatar’s prime minister is set to visit Tehran to restart diplomatic mediation.

Cypher Tank, the Bitcoin-focused pitch competition backed by Plan ₿ VC Fund and the Plan ₿ Foundation, has opened applications for its 2026 edition after last year’s event drew more than 4,000 participants from 64 countries. The format returns with a Shark Tank-style negotiation setup and documentary-style production that records real founder pitches, dealmaking and judge deliberations for an online series. This year, the finalist pool expands to 12 projects from 11, including eight for-profit ventures and four nonprofit teams. Finalists will negotiate directly with a judging panel known as the honey badgers and compete for three $100,000 prizes tied to incubation, acceleration or relocation services. The process runs in four phases, with applications open from Aug. 13 to Sept. 25, finalist notices starting Sept. 30, and finals scheduled for Oct. 25-27 at PoW Space Lugano after the Plan ₿ Forum. Recorded episodes are set to air online in January 2027, while post-win support begins at the end of February after NDAs expire.

The Standard Reserve is proposing an experimental on-chain monetary system that adjusts token issuance based on net ETH flows in a planned ETH-STANDARD pool built on Uniswap v4. Under the design described in its white paper, positive net ETH flow would push the system into expansion mode, increasing issuance and directing 70% of epoch revenue toward reserves, while flat or negative flow would trigger contraction, slower issuance, and buybacks of STANDARD for burning. The protocol also assigns a central role to Charter NFTs, which function as internal licenses for participants called Bankers. Each Charter starts with one Branch and can scale to as many as 10, with Branch count determining a holder’s share of newly issued STANDARD. Expansion requires purchasing Expansion Licenses in daily Dutch auctions using STANDARD, and those tokens are burned. Exits work differently: Bankers must close Branches to withdraw accrued balances, pay a Resolution Fee tied to seven-day exit pressure, and give up future issuance rights linked to the closed Branches. As of Aug. 24, The Standard Reserve had published its website, app page, and white paper v0.1, but STANDARD and Charter NFTs had not gone live. The project has not yet disclosed a production contract address, a full audit report, or all key operating parameters.