Author: NBTC

Matt Cole, CEO of Bitcoin acquisition firm Strive (Nasdaq: ASST), has made a striking commitment regarding the company’s Bitcoin holdings. In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Cole stated unequivocally that Strive has no intention of selling its Bitcoin, even if the price were to fall to one cent. Zero Debt, Zero Liquidation Risk Cole emphasized that Strive is entirely debt-free and that its Bitcoin holdings are not leveraged or used as collateral. This structure eliminates any risk of forced liquidation, regardless of market conditions. “The price could drop to one cent and remain there for 18 months, and we would…

Ethereum ($ETH) hovers within the $1.7K range. The buyers control the broader market structure. Two notable institutions have pulled significant Ethereum off exchanges within the same hour. A wallet tied to K3 Capital withdrew 10,000 Ethereum worth $17.85M from Binance, while Abraxas Capital followed with 6,948 $ETH valued at $12.42M pulled from both Binance and Bitfinex. That is nearly $30M in Ethereum moved off exchanges. When institutions withdraw tokens from exchanges, they are not selling; they are moving them into cold storage or private custody, hinting at accumulation behaviour. It infers the plan to hold, not trade. Every $ETH pulled…

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit said it is not participating in the issuance of Open USD, after its operator Dunamu was named among more than 140 businesses involved in the new stablecoin initiative. “Upbit has only indicated our potential willingness to consider taking part in the future expansion of the OpenStandard ecosystem,” an Upbit spokesperson told Cointelegraph. The clarification follows similar pushback from Samsung Electronics and other South Korean companies listed by Open Standard. According to a Friday report by ChosunBiz, Samsung said it had not held formal discussions with the project and did not know what role it was…

Quant Network builds its business around banks, central banks, and large financial institutions, not everyday crypto users.Its core product, Overledger, is designed to solve a problem most retail users never face. It connects incompatible blockchain networks with legacy banking systems. Large regulated institutions need that interoperability to move data and assets across different platforms at scale. Retail users trade tokens on one chain. Banks need to move regulated money across dozens of private and public ledgers at once, and that’s the gap Quant fills. What Does Quant Network Actually Sell? Quant’s product is Overledger, described by the company as a…

Standard Chartered has executed its first digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group, a milestone in the build-out of institutional market infrastructure for crypto. With this move, the bank became one of the first Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) to test a prime brokerage model for digital assets inside established risk, compliance and market frameworks. The pilot covered spot Bitcoin (XBT/USD) with T+1 settlement through Standard Chartered’s UK branch. These were the bank’s first digital asset credit intermediation trades under a prime brokerage structure. The transactions ran on LMAX Digital, LMAX Group’s regulated institutional venue, with Standard Chartered Prime…

A new round of debate is gaining momentum on X over why investors should hold base-layer network tokens at all. In the crypto community, the view has taken hold that only Bitcoin has established itself as a valuable asset, while all other tokens are just attempts to build technology platforms that cannot retain value and do not provide compound returns. Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko tried to put an end to the latest discussion in a new post, explaining why this myth is wrong and why there are “true tokens” on the market with a fundamentally different form of ownership. Why…

Fundstrat Capital co-founder, Tom Lee, projected that the network value of the market’s leading altcoin would experience massive long-term growth. The firm BitMine, linked to the executive, recently acquired a batch of 42,197 $ETH to consolidate its institutional corporate reserves. The current market valuation of the smart contract platform stands at 213.6 billion dollars following periods of bearish pressure. Fundstrat Capital co-founder, Tom Lee, stated that, in the coming years, Ethereum could hit a market cap of $5 trillion dollars due to its structural utility. The statement was issued during his participation in the New Era Finance Podcast, where he…

Asian Web3 research and consulting firm Tiger Research is advising financial institutions to prioritize gaining practical experience in overseas markets to capture a first-mover advantage in the rapidly growing real-world asset (RWA) tokenization sector, rather than waiting for domestic legislation to catch up. In a report titled Start RWA Tokenization Abroad First, the firm highlights that the global RWA market has already swelled to between $25 billion and $36 billion in the first half of this year, demonstrating clear operational efficiencies such as automated interest payments and significantly shorter settlement periods. Regulatory Vacuum Creates Uncertainty for Financial Firms Despite the…

Renting blockspace on Polkadot means paying in $DOT to reserve processing time on the network’s shared validator set, called a core, either in a fixed monthly block or in single-block increments, instead of locking up tokens for years to win a permanent slot. This system is called Agile Coretime, and it replaced Polkadot’s old parachain slot auctions in 2024. Projects like Astar, Hydration, and Acala are among those using it today. What Is Coretime on Polkadot? Coretime is the name for the resource Polkadot sells. In Polkadot’s architecture, a core is a unit of computing power that the Relay Chain,…

Poland has entered the European Union’s post-MiCA era in an unusual position: its crypto companies are now subject to the bloc’s new regulatory framework, but they still cannot obtain the license required from their own country’s regulator. The impasse stems from President Karol Nawrocki’s repeated refusal to sign legislation implementing the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework into Polish law. His latest veto has left the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) without legal authority to process applications from crypto-asset service providers, even as the EU’s transitional period has ended. That legislative gap makes Poland the only EU member state without…