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The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted 15-9 to advance the CLARITY Act for a full Senate vote, overcoming a key industry compromise on stablecoin rewards. However, the legislation faces significant political hurdles as it moves forward. The vote fell largely along party lines, with all 13 Republican committee members voting in favor and only two Democrats—Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks—joining them. Both Democrats indicated their support was conditional to keep debate alive and could be withdrawn later. The path to final passage in the full Senate remains difficult. The bill requires 60 votes to pass. With a current 53-47 Republican majority, this means at least 7 Democratic votes are needed, assuming no Republican defections. The narrow, partisan committee vote suggests securing that level of bipartisan support will be challenging. During the committee process, Democrats pushed for numerous amendments, including a key ethics provision to restrict top government officials' financial ties to the crypto industry. Republicans used their majority to block these amendments, leaving core Democratic concerns unaddressed. These issues, particularly around anti-money laundering and ethics, are expected to resurface as major points of contention during the full Senate debate. Republicans are pushing for a swift Senate vote, ideally before the July 4 recess and the upcoming election season, fearing that a shift in congressional power after the next election could jeopardize the bill's future. However, given the current political stalemate and Democratic demands for concessions, the act's prospects for becoming law in 2026 are uncertain.

Poland's parliament has passed a long-delayed cryptocurrency regulatory bill, driven by urgency following a fraud scandal at a local exchange. Prime Minister Donald Tusk cited the Zondacrypto case, where users lost access to funds and which had alleged Russian ties, as proof of the need for investor protections. The approved bill grants Poland's Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) broad powers to oversee the market, impose penalties, and block accounts or transactions. However, the legislation faces potential rejection, as it retains contentious account-blocking provisions that led President Karol Nawrocki to veto two prior versions. Critics argue it lacks sufficient judicial oversight. A third veto would prolong regulatory uncertainty as Poland races to align with the EU's MiCA framework by a July deadline. The bill prevailed over three other competing proposals in a parliamentary vote.

In a striking demonstration of AI-powered development, Peter Steinberger (creator of OpenClaw) shared that his three-person team spent $1.3 million in one month to run approximately 100 AI agents (primarily Codex instances). OpenAI covered the cost. The expenditure consumed 6.03 trillion tokens across 7.6 million requests. Steinberger argues that, with "fast mode" disabled, the cost falls below that of a single engineer while providing significantly greater output. This "cloud programmer army" handles core but tedious software engineering tasks: reviewing pull requests, finding security vulnerabilities, deduplicating issues, fixing bugs, monitoring benchmarks, and even generating PRs after meetings. This shifts AI's role from merely writing code to maintaining the entire collaborative fabric of a project. Steinberger's tool, CodexBar (a macOS menu bar app), tracks usage and costs across various AI coding services, highlighting how token consumption is becoming a key metric—a new "means of production." The experiment poses a profound question: if token cost ceases to be a barrier, how will software development transform? As model prices fall, the capability for small teams to leverage large numbers of AI agents could become commonplace, fundamentally altering the scale and speed of development. The future, Steinberger suggests, is arriving rapidly.

China's three major telecom operators—China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom—have officially entered the AI token business, launching low-cost token packages for individuals and businesses. China Telecom introduced six trial commercial token plans. For individuals and families, prices start at 9.9 yuan/month for 10 million tokens. For developers and SMEs, plans range from 39.9 yuan/month for 15 million tokens to 299.9 yuan/month for 150 million tokens. Shanghai Mobile launched a token service offering 400,000 tokens for 1 yuan, payable via phone bill. It also started an "AI Hui Shen Huo" upgrade plan for smart home products. China Unicom's cloud division released personal and team token plans. Personal plans start at 15 yuan/month for 6 million tokens, while team plans begin at 198 yuan/month (approximately 200 million tokens). Local branches in Sichuan and Shanghai have also rolled out their own token packages and AI strategies. This move marks a shift for operators, repackaging AI model usage (tokens) into familiar, subscription-based services like data plans. By leveraging their vast user base, billing systems, and distribution channels, they aim to make AI access as simple and widespread as paying a phone bill, potentially establishing tokens as a new fundamental utility.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has signed Senate Bill 163 into law, creating a crypto-friendly regulatory framework. The law shields digital asset mining businesses from restrictive local zoning changes without proper procedure and protects them from discriminatory regulations compared to other industrial businesses. It prohibits state agencies from adopting or participating in central bank digital currency (CBDC) trials. The legislation safeguards the right to self-custody of crypto assets, bans restrictions on hardware and self-hosted wallets, and prevents excessive taxation on cryptocurrency transactions. It also exempts miners, node operators, developers, and crypto-to-crypto traders from money transmitter licensing, and excludes mining/staking service providers from security classifications. South Carolina follows states like Kentucky in enacting pro-crypto legislation.