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SimpleSwap Marks a Year Inside Exodus Wallet, Ships Five Partner Updates WithNo Integration Changes
SimpleSwap today marked one year of fixed-rate exchanges running inside the Exodus wallet.
SimpleSwap-powered fixed-rate exchanges have been running within the Exodus wallet for a year. Over those twelve months, the partner side of the product gained five capabilities, none of which required Exodus or any other partner to change their integration.
Automatic refunds on swaps paused for screening
A small number of exchanges are paused for compliance checks. If a check requires further review and the exchange cannot proceed, the funds are automatically returned to the refund address; no ticket is needed.
Most refunds are completed within 5 to 15 minutes, although they can take up to 30 minutes when networks are busy. Partner statistics first show the exchange as failed, then as refunded once the money arrives.
What partners need to know:
- The refund_address field must be passed in the API request. Partners who do not collect a refund address from the user can provide their own and settle directly with the user.
- A standard network fee is deducted from the returned amount. No service charge is added on top of it.
- Coverage spans the major networks and assets. Account managers hold the current list.
- Refunds apply to eligible exchanges, not to every case.
A pause does not mean the user is being accused; it simply means there is reason to take a closer look. Crypto funds can carry over history from earlier or third-party transactions that the current sender may know nothing about, which is why the money is returned rather than left sitting somewhere.
“Nobody celebrates a swap that had to be sent back,” said Stefan Lauer, Head of Infrastructure at SimpleSwap. “But whether that money comes back on its own or through a support ticket is the part a partner lives with every day. Wallets put their own users in front of infrastructure they did not build, and a year of that from Exodus is not a small thing to hand over. Most of what shipped this year came from taking it seriously.”
Fee settings per API key and per pair
Partner accounts now set the fee percentage for an individual API key and an individual pair, rather than across the account as a whole.
A wallet can issue a separate key for each product or traffic source, give each one its own margin, and then compare the results directly. A BTC-to-USDT route can be priced differently from a long-tail altcoin route.
Pricing experiments run within the dashboard rather than in a release cycle.
Margin set on the individual transaction
The exchange creation method accepts a custom_fee parameter, so the profit share is set when an exchange is created rather than inherited from its key. Reference: https://api.simpleswap.io/docs/api/create-exchange
A promotional rate for one user segment can run alongside a standard rate for another, without changing account settings.
This is the level of payment flows usually needed, where pricing depends on the basket rather than on the integration.
Reverse estimate
A standard estimate answers the question “How much will I receive for 1 BTC?” Reverse estimate answers the opposite one: “How much does the customer need to send to receive 500 USDT?”.
Payment services use it to quote goods and services in a stable equivalent while accepting whatever asset the buyer holds.
The settlement figure is known before the invoice goes out.
300+ assets added, with no partner-side release
More than 300 assets were listed over the year, including tokens requested directly by partners. They reach partner apps through the same currency call already in place.
Behind that pace sits the aggregation layer, which now draws on 20+ liquidity providers across CEX and DEX venues, with NEAR among the sources announced publicly. A wider pool means a new asset can usually be routed through existing infrastructure, rather than waiting for a single venue to support it.
Listing requests arrive when a coin starts moving, making the speed of adding an asset a commercial rather than a technical question.
Where things stand after year one
- 20+ liquidity providers aggregated across CEX and DEX sources
- 2,800+ assets available for exchange, 300+ of them listed in the past year
- 3.2M+ trading pairs
- 6,000+ partner products running SimpleSwap
- 20M+ swaps processed for 10M+ users since 2018
- 99.9% uptime
- 4-minute average support response when a case needs a person
Five changes went out over the year, and not one of them was a migration. The integration Exodus shipped in August 2025 is the same one running today, with a broader asset list and finer control over what each transaction earns. Teams that want to switch any of it on will find the details in the API documentation or through their account manager.
About SimpleSwap
SimpleSwap is a self-custodial, multi-source swap aggregator that helps users exchange crypto with greater privacy and control, without having to compare providers and routes themselves. It supports direct wallet-to-wallet swaps across 20+ liquidity providers and 2,800+ swappable assets, combining liquidity from well-known CEX and DEX sources under the hood.
Operating since 2018, the exchange infrastructure is integrated into 6,000+ partner products, including Exodus, Tangem, Ellipal, Cake Wallet, and Tonkeeper.
For partners: SimpleSwap API integration at https://simpleswap.io/affiliate-program API documentation: https://api.simpleswap.io/docs
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The average market cap of Pump Fun tokens shared by 80% of the firm’s top 50 callout reward earners was below $100,000, according to research from crypto analyst Dethective.
Pump Fun traders earn daily sums based on the amount of volume their publicly shared token advice attracts from other traders.
Dethective charted the top 50 callout reward earners, who raked in a total of almost $700,000.
Few users call out tokens that reach over $100K
There were only two callers with an average median market cap rate of over $1 million, and eight callers with an average median market cap rate between $100,000 and $1 million.
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Eighty percent of the earners shared tokens with an average market cap of less than $100,000, while 12 callers averaged a market cap of less than $10,000.
Martin Shkreli makes $11K from callout rewards
Martin Shkreli joined Pump Fun this week, and his closely tied memecoins were down 94% in 24 hours.
Despite this, Shkreli has made almost $11,000 from callout rewards. He’s shared 11 callouts with an average market cap rate of $220,000.
Someone made $6.8K with 2,417 call outs
The highest earner of callout rewards was Pump Fun user “Slingoor,” who earned $47,500 sharing 215 callouts. Their average market cap rate was almost $149,000.
Meanwhile, the lowest top earner made $6,100 from sharing 624 callouts. Their average market cap rate was over $13,000.
One top 50 earner shared 2,417 calls and made $6,800. Their average market cap rate was $3,600.
Pump Fun was rewarding quantity over quality
Onlookers have noted that most of the users receiving these rewards are already key opinion leaders onboarded by the platform.
Users also complained that the platform was unfairly rewarding the sheer number of callouts rather than their quality.
Because of this, Pump Fun’s Chief Operating Officer Alon Cohen claimed the firm has “significantly reduced the weighting of the number of callouts that a user produces within the callout rewards calculation.”
Over the last month, Pump Fun’s token has increased by 133%. However, it’s still down 46% from it’s all time high last September.
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StarkWare said Wednesday that a quantum-safe Bitcoin (BTC) transaction has been mined on the live network, a first for the method.
On-chain data shows the transaction spent a 10,000-satoshi output, worth about $8 at current prices, and paid a fee of 5,179 satoshis.
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How the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Works
Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) attaches a hash-based lock beside the elliptic curve signature that normally guards a Bitcoin output. Shor’s algorithm, the quantum technique that derives private keys from published public keys, cannot break hash functions.
StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy published the QSB method in April. It uses signature grinding. This produces a valid Bitcoin signature without a private key.
The sender grinds offchain until a candidate spending transaction hashes to a value that is itself a validly formatted signature.
Security then rests on reversing a hash rather than keeping a private key secret. The technique builds on Binohash, developed by Robin Linus, the creator of BitVM.
MARA Pool mined the transaction in block 964,199. What worked was a single construction, not an upgrade, and Bitcoin itself remains unchanged.
What the QSB Method Cannot Do
StarkWare said the method does not make Bitcoin quantum-safe. Three constraints narrow what the spend actually protects.
The first limit is prior exposure. An address whose public key already sits on-chain gains nothing, because an adversary with a quantum computer could derive the corresponding private key.
The second is the migration step. Coins reach a hash-secured output through a transaction signed the ordinary way, which exposes the sending address’s public key. The output spent on Wednesday was funded in July by exactly such a transaction.
The third is delivery. QSB transactions use nonstandard formats, so ordinary nodes will not relay them, and MARA’s Slipstream service supplied the route to a miner.
Cost compounds the limits. Levy’s repository puts the offchain compute at $75 to $150, while StarkWare described this transaction as costing several hundred dollars.
“People have long assumed that protecting Bitcoin holdings from a quantum adversary would require changing the Bitcoin protocol. Today shows otherwise. A soft fork is still the better long-term answer, as StarkWare has argued for consistently, but it is no longer the only option,” the blog read.
Bitcoin has not adopted a protocol-level fix, and Wednesday’s transaction does not change that.
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The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite jumped while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped Thursday as Wall Street reacted to big earnings reports, with Nvidia (NVDA), Salesforce (CRM) and CrowdStrike (CRWD) surging on the stock market today. Just after Thursday’s open, the Dow industrials were down 0.2%, while the S&P 500 moved up 0.3%. The Nasdaq advanced 0.8% in morning trading. West…
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U.S. fiscal concerns and digital-asset legislation news have emerged as separate forces in the Bitcoin market. Senator Cynthia Lummis has linked Bitcoin to the country’s $39.2 trillion national debt. Now, the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act remains subject to significant procedural and policy hurdles in the Senate.
Bitcoin posted a 22% weekly gain after Treasury yields fell following a Treasury intervention in the bond market. The move into crypto was later amplified by a short squeeze, with CoinGlass data showing $2.7 billion in crypto short positions liquidated.
— paulatalkscrypto (@paulatalkshxrp) August 20, 2026
$2.7 BILLION IN CRYPTO SHORTS JUST GOT WIPED OUT.
Bears got caught on the wrong side of the trade.
Liquidations are accelerating.
Momentum is shifting.
And the crypto market just sent a loud warning:
Never underestimate what happens when shorts get trapped. 
#Crypto pic.twitter.com/nRVNMX0HTt
CNBC also reported that concern about U.S. debt levels and borrowing costs was part of the market backdrop. The report described the Treasury’s decision to double its buybacks of long-dated government debt as an effort aimed at long-term yield concerns, while noting that Bitcoin remained below its 2026 high and its all-time high despite the rally.
The same report said investor sentiment improved amid a late effort by the White House and crypto industry leaders to advance the CLARITY Act. It characterized the bill as a potential market catalyst, while saying its prospects for passage appeared relatively slim.
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Lummis Links Debt Concerns to the CLARITY Act
On June 15, Senator Cynthia Lummis publicly tied Bitcoin to America’s $39.2 trillion national debt crisis. The report said she presented Bitcoin as a potential hedge against currency debasement for younger Americans who will inherit the effects of decades of deficit spending.
Lummis has argued that Bitcoin’s fixed supply makes it structurally distinct from sovereign debt instruments. According to the report, she described the U.S. fiscal trajectory as unsustainable and said Bitcoin could help address the consequences for younger Americans. She also acknowledged that the legislative timetable remained uncertain.
The Clarity Act would establish a jurisdictional division between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Under the framework described in the primary report, the SEC would oversee digital-asset securities and new token offerings, while the CFTC would have jurisdiction over spot digital commodities, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The legislation would also create registration frameworks for exchanges, brokers, and custodians. Its provisions include capital-segregation requirements, protections for software developers publishing code, and a rule giving exchange customers first claim on custodial assets in bankruptcy.
For tokens that operate in regulatory ambiguity, the proposed activity-based test would determine whether sufficiently decentralized assets fall under CFTC oversight as digital commodities. The bill would also ban passive stablecoin yield products while protecting activity-based platform usage rewards.
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News on Senate Obstacles Remain as Bitcoin Stabilizes
Galaxy Research put the probability of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 at 60–75%, according to the primary report. But the White House’s July 4 signing target faced pressure from unresolved ethics provisions, competing House and Senate versions that require reconciliation, and the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold.
The House and Senate versions also differ over the SEC–CFTC balance. The Senate Banking discussion draft gives the SEC primary authority over ancillary assets and calls for joint SEC–CFTC rulemaking on margining and disclosures, while the House version is described as more CFTC-forward.
Despite the news, Bitcoin is still trading at around $80,000, with BTC holding near the key psychological level after briefly climbing above $80,000. The move keeps Bitcoin firmly in its recent uptrend, although the $80,000 to $82,000 area remains an important resistance zone after its three-month high.
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TIME Reveals the 2026 TIME100 AI List of the World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence
Today, TIME reveals the fourth annual TIME100 AI list, recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
The 2026 TIME100 AI issue includes one worldwide cover featuring listmakers, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jeff Bezos, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Marian Croak, Larry Ellison, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paris Hilton, Lila Ibrahim, Arvind Krishna, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Liz Shuler, Ilya Sutskever, and Eddie Wu.
Published alongside the TIME100 AI are in-depth interviews with Thinking Machines Lab chief executive officer Mira Murati, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union Doreen Bogdan-Martin and OpenEvidence founder and chief executive officer Daniel Nadler.
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Kansas City Fed’s Schmid says inflation ‘stubborn’ and ‘sticky,’ policy rate not restrictive
Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Schmid said Thursday that inflation is still too high, though he stopped short of calling for an interest rate hike.
Speaking from the central bank’s annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. that the Kansas City Fed hosts, Schmid said in a CNBC interview that inflation has proven resilient.
“It’s still stubborn and it’s still sticky, and we’re we’ve got to continue to find ways to break through,” he said on “Squawk Box.” “We’re going to have our work cut out for us as we move into the [Federal Open Market Committee] cycle.”
The comments came the day after the Commerce Department reported that the Fed’s primary inflation gauge showed core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 3.3% from a year ago, well above the central bank’s 2% target.
Coupled with an economy that grew at 1.5% in the second quarter and an unemployment rate sitting at 4.1%, Schmid said it’s not clear that the Fed’s current policy rate target of 3.5%-3.75% is restrictive.
“I don’t know what we’re restricting currently with the rate policy that we’re at today,” he said. “I do know moving the rate does change behaviors in the market in a macro level market.”
Schmid does not vote this year on the FOMC, though he still gets to express his views at meetings. When he was a voter last year, he twice dissented against rate cuts.
However, he said he is not sure whether he would support a rate increase now.
“I think we need a little bit more information. What I’m trying to figure out is the demand side of what’s driving both growth and inflation,” Schmid said.
Separately, Schmid said he sees “some room” to consider an idea that Chairman Kevin Warsh raised in July to reduce the number of FOMC meetings per year to six from the current eight.
BTC held its ground Thursday as spot bitcoin ETFs logged an eighth straight day of net inflows, while altcoins drifted lower across the board.
Bitfinex Securities completed a record $50 million raise for Alkemya, whose token represents interests in a partnership that holds nickel assets.
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The abandoned bids would have cost over $2 million in base fees alone, leading the firm to prioritize financial viability over broader internet adoption.
Developers are holding details for two weeks while fixes reach operators, in the second Lightning security emergency this month traced to AI work on Bitcoin code.
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