Foresight’s weekly Web3 roundup tracks CLARITY Act changes, MetaMask split, meme coin frenzy and security shocks
Foresight News’ latest weekly Web3 roundup pulls together the stories that dominated crypto conversation over the past week, spanning meme coin speculation, U.S. regulatory debate, infrastructure shifts and fresh security incidents. On the speculative end, Hunter Biden-linked token LAPTOP launched on Base and quickly fell more than 99%, while the SLINK case on Robinhood Chain showed how a social-account compromise and celebrity association could drive a token from roughly $500,000 to $82 million before collapsing. The report also highlighted the rapid rise of trading tools built for FOMO-driven markets and a new "stock-meme" narrative on BNB Chain tied to tokenized equities. On the policy and business side, U.S. Senate Republicans released a 630-page revised CLARITY Act that would redraw oversight lines between the SEC and CFTC and bring certain "fake DeFi" projects under CFTC registration. MetaMask formally split from Consensys and repositioned itself as a broader consumer-facing financial platform, while Circle’s Chelsea sponsorship raised questions in Hong Kong over cross-border promotion of an unauthorized stablecoin. Foresight also noted the launch of Solana prediction market site world.xyz, which went offline temporarily on day one after traffic surged. Security stories remained central. Singaporean defendant Malone Lam pleaded guilty in a case tied to the theft of 4,100 BTC, Liquid halted operations after an attacker used abnormal L-BTC to redeem nearly 4,000 BTC, and WOO X faced scrutiny over multi-day withdrawal delays reported by users and highlighted by ZachXBT.
