Brian Armstrong defends Coinbase's role in the CLARITY Act's legislative journey, rejecting WSJ claims of obstruction and noting his early concerns about DeFi and stablecoin provisions were addressed in the final Senate draft. Meanwhile, DeFi ecosystem highlights include Kaleido's AI agent integration with Bitget Wallet, Nucleus's reputation ranking platform for Web3 activity, and Arbitrum's growth across tokenization, perpetuals, and blockchain infrastructure.
Kaleido Finance launched a pre-season waitlist for its Arc mainnet DeFi platform. Separately, Balancer initiated a proposal to wind down operations and distribute its treasury to BAL token holders, with a Snapshot vote scheduled for September 25-29.