Author: NBTC

Decentralized exchange Aster has announced support for perpetual futures trading using tokenized stocks as collateral, marking a notable integration between traditional equity markets and decentralized finance. The exchange confirmed the development via its official X account, stating that users can now deposit tokenized stock tokens from Binance’s bStocks platform into a $BNB Chain futures account and activate a multi-asset mode to unlock collateral functionality. How the Collateral System Works According to the announcement, users holding bStocks tokens can leverage up to 90% of their value as collateral for opening and maintaining perpetual futures positions. This mechanism allows traders to keep…

MoneyGram said Monday it has become a validator on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, the latest step in the remittance firm’s ongoing push into crypto infrastructure as it builds payment services around stablecoins. By operating a validator, MoneyGram will help process transactions and secure Solana’s proof-of-stake network, becoming a key part of the infrastructure that keeps the network running. The company also joined Solana Developer Platform, an initiative aimed at helping institutions build financial products on the blockchain. The move comes weeks after MoneyGram unveiled its MGUSD stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain, a sign of the company’s growing commitment to blockchain-based…

One of the most significant macroeconomic developments of the month is about to begin for markets, as the U.S. CPI report is expected to be released in two days. The April Consumer Price Index (CPI) report may help cryptocurrency traders decide whether Bitcoin will experience another wave of volatility brought on by shifting Federal Reserve expectations, or continue its recent comeback toward new highs. Effect on Bitcoin Bitcoin is currently exhibiting significant technical momentum. Following its recent recovery of the 50-day and 100-day moving averages, Bitcoin is currently making an effort to break through the psychologically significant $82,000 area. Higher…

$NEAR has announced SPICE, its next major protocol update. SPICE, an abbreviation for “Separation of Consensus and Execution,” is seen as a significant step in the network’s Nightshade 3.0 roadmap. According to $NEAR, the update will reduce block times on the network from the current 600 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds. This represents approximately a threefold increase in speed. The SPICE update is fundamentally based on separating the consensus layer from the transaction execution layer. This allows validators to reach consensus on blocks without waiting for transaction execution. The goal is to reduce network latency and support more complex, longer-running transactions.…

As efforts continue to garner support for the Clarity Act, a bill containing comprehensive regulations for the cryptocurrency sector, a notable meeting took place between representatives of law enforcement, White House officials, and members of Congress. According to journalist Eleanor Terrett, the meeting was held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, hosted by the White House Crypto Council and Patrick Witt. At the meeting, attended by approximately 20 people, House Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer and White House AI and crypto advisor David Sacks made opening remarks before leaving. Also present were officials from the U.S. Treasury Department, the Financial…

Something big just happened in US crypto trading. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has cleared the way for a brand new kind of crypto product to be sold inside the country, and one trading platform has already jumped in to offer it. According to a cryptopolitan report, Kalshi, a platform best known for letting people bet on real-world events, started selling Bitcoin perpetual futures to American customers on June 3. These are called BTCPERP, and Kalshi is now the first company to sell this kind of product after getting the green light from the CFTC. Perpetual futures are financial contracts…

Something is shifting inside the Bitcoin mining network — and JPMorgan’s latest analysis puts a number on it. According to the bank, bitcoin mining sensitivity to price movements has reached levels not seen before, with more miners than ever sitting dangerously close to their breakeven point. That proximity to the edge is changing how the entire network behaves when prices move. Key takeaways JPMorgan reports the beta of Bitcoin mining difficulty relative to price has climbed to 0.62 over the past six months, reflecting sharply increased network sensitivity. Bitcoin has traded below its estimated production cost of $78,000 for five…

The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) continues to attract capital into its real-world asset (RWA) ecosystem even as major blockchain networks face heavy outflows. Data shared from RWA.xyz shows XRPL recorded $1.7 billion in net RWA inflows over the past 60 days. In contrast, several leading networks posted significant declines during the same period. Ethereum led the outflows with $5.8 billion leaving the network. Arbitrum followed with $3.0 billion in outflows, while Solana and Polygon recorded declines of $653 million and $250 million, respectively. Against this backdrop, XRPL stood out alongside TRON and HyperEVM as the only major networks to post a…

Bitcoin is entering one of its most consequential trading weeks since its February correction, with Middle East tensions pushing oil prices higher, inflation expectations hardening, and options traders positioning for a possible break above $85,000. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the largest digital asset briefly dipped on Sunday after President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest response to a US peace proposal, then recovered above $82,000 before easing near $81,034 as of press time. The move kept Bitcoin inside the narrow range that has defined trading in recent weeks, even as geopolitical risk continued to feed into energy markets and rate expectations.…

Altura will begin winding down its stablecoin yield vault after a sharp rise in withdrawal requests over the weekend. CEO Ranveer Arora said the protocol processed more than 8.5 million $USDT in instant redemptions over 24 hours before deciding to close the vault in an orderly way. Arora said the team made the move because of “sustained withdrawal demand and current market sentiment.” He added that Altura’s priority was user capital and that the team wanted all redemptions completed in a “fair, transparent, and efficient manner.” The announcement marks a sharp change for a vault built around stablecoin yield on…