Author: NBTC
In the past, crypto regulation in the U.S. has been badly fractured. Not only did federal agencies fail to collaborate — they outright contradicted and cajoled each other in a turf war to control our nascent industry. But recent signals from regulators suggest movement. Earlier this month, the SEC and the CFTC released a Memorandum of Understanding to address past missteps and improve coordination for greater regulatory clarity. And even more importantly, the two agencies issued joint guidance last week on how securities and commodities laws apply to crypto assets. This is outstanding progress, and a helpful step towards bringing…
A crypto April Fool’s bit from protocol firm Liquity, which claimed it was being bought by stablecoin giant Circle, has led to allegations of “market manipulation” after it pumped the price of its in-house token. Liquity announced on April 1 that it was acquired by Circle in a deal that would allow Circle to offer users “a non-freezable stablecoin and directly distribute yield under the Clarity Act.” The joke pokes fun at Circle’s ability to freeze tokens and the fact that the Clarity Act, in its current form, seeks to ban yield on stablecoins. BREAKING: Circle has acquired Liquity.This acquisition…
Naoris Protocol debuted its quantum-resistant blockchain Thursday, which it says is designed to stay secure even against future powerful quantum computers that could break modern day cryptography. “Mainnet represents the transition from proof-of-concept to production infrastructure. The network has already validated over 100 million transactions using post-quantum cryptography. That is not a roadmap promise; it is measured, operational capacity,” Nathaniel Szerezla, chief growth officer of Naoris Protocol, said. The debut comes as legacy chains Bitcoin and Ethereum confront the threat of a “quantum apocalypse.” Known as Q-Day, this is the point when future quantum computers could crack the encryption securing…
Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain analytics platform, has revealed the biggest individual holder of Ethereum ($ETH). Contrary to popular claims, new data from Arkham shows that Vitalik Buterin is not the largest individual $ETH holder. Biggest Ethereum holder in 2026 Arkham used its platform to scan blockchain data, label entities and rank who controls the largest amounts of $ETH in 2026. The platform shared the results of its research in a new article. Currently, the ETH2 Beacon Deposit Contract holds the most $ETH of any wallet address, with over 82 million $ETH, worth about $169 billion. Who owns the most Ethereum…
Payy raised $6m led by FirstMark to build a zero-knowledge L2 and wallet that make $USDC payments private by default, targeting enterprise stablecoin flows that avoid fully transparent chains. Summary Payy, a New York-based stablecoin startup, closed a $6 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital in December 2025, bringing its total funding to $8 million. The company is building a privacy-focused payments network using zero-knowledge proofs, arguing that public blockchain transparency is a fundamental blocker to enterprise stablecoin adoption. Payy already has 100,000+ users across 120 countries and processes around $130 million in annualized transaction volume, with a mainnet…
Cardano and Midnight Founder Charles Hoskinson said proposed U.S. crypto legislation could take more than a decade to implement, fail to survive political change and structurally disadvantage new entrants while benefiting established cryptocurrencies. The Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act is still being negotiated in Congress, with lawmakers circulating updated text and trying to close final gaps. While a compromise on stablecoin yield appears close, other sticking points, including decentralized finance and Democratic political demands, remain unresolved, leaving the bill short of a full Senate vote for now. “Even if it does get passed, it’s going to take many years of…
Paradigm is building a pro‑grade prediction market terminal, eyeing an internal MM unit and S&P‑style index product as Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $22B on surging volumes. Paradigm is building a dedicated prediction market trading terminal aimed squarely at professional traders and market makers, in one of the clearest signs yet that real‑money event markets are being treated as an emerging asset class rather than a curiosity. The project, led by Paradigm partner Arjun Balaji and initiated in late 2025, is designed to give sophisticated users Bloomberg‑style tools to trade, analyze and route liquidity across a growing ecosystem of on‑chain and…
Decentralized email platform Dmail Network is shutting down after five years of operations, citing high infrastructure costs, weak monetization, failed funding efforts and limited token utility. The platform said it will gradually cease all services starting May 15, and urged users to export their data before then. It said all nodes will shut down after that date, making emails and accounts inaccessible. Dmail Network positioned itself as a Web3 communication platform focused on decentralized, wallet-based email, encrypted messaging and onchain notifications. In January 2025, DappRadar ranked Dmail second among AI DApps, with 4.9 million unique active wallets for the month.…
The $NFT sector has witnessed a substantial activity surge this week. Specifically, the $NFT sales volume has increased by 11.46% over the week to hit $46,209,416. As per the data from CryptoSlam, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Arbitrum’s NFTs are dominating the week’s leading $NFT sales. Apart from that, the other noteworthy names on the list of the top-20 weekly $NFT sales include those belonging to $BNB Chain, Panini, Cardano, Base, Solana, Flow, and Ronin. This significant surge reflects the growing appeal of NFTs among investors. ‘00ed6…bf0i0’ $NFT of ‘$X@AI BRC-20 NFTs’ Collection Leads $NFT Sales of Week Particularly, Bitcoin is the…
The Ethereum ($ETH) available in the market has steadily declined as of April 3, 2026, amid rising Ether deposits in the ETH2 Beacon Deposit Contract (0x000). As of press time, the total staked $ETH had surged to 83 million, thereby representing 68.77% of the altcoin’s circulating supply of 120.69 million units. As such, the ETH2 staking contract controls approximately $170 billion at the time of reporting, according to metrics from Arkham Intelligence. $ETH staked supply in 3 months. Source: Arkham The number of $ETH deposited in this contract surged by 10.67% during the past three months as more institutional investors,…