Author: NBTC

A prominent question within the $XRP community regarding the depletion of Ripple’s massive escrow accounts recently caught the attention of none other than Ripple veteran David Schwartz. A community member recently asked Schwartz to compare the end of Ripple’s monthly escrow unlocks to the mining of the final Bitcoin. An unclear timeline Ripple’s escrow might completely run out around the year 2035, as the user has speculated. This would cap the circulating supply just as the final mined $BTC would. The Ripple veteran explained that pinpointing an exact year is practically impossible, given that Ripple’s operational needs might change over…

CLARITY Act Faces a Decisive Senate Week The CLARITY Act has entered a critical week as the Senate approaches its August recess without updated legislative text or a scheduled floor vote. Negotiations could still produce an agreement, but the compressed calendar leaves little room for unresolved language issues, procedural delays, or shifting political priorities. Stand With Crypto (SWC), a grassroots advocacy organization backed by Coinbase that mobilizes cryptocurrency supporters to influence public policy, said the CLARITY Act has entered a decisive stage, with only 18 Senate days remaining before the August recess. The group is urging lawmakers to stay in…

Decentralized perpetuals exchange Lighter has made Robinhood Stock Tokens eligible as trading collateral on Robinhood Chain, letting users post tokenized equities such as NVDA, GOOG and AAPL as margin for perpetual futures. The move expands Lighter’s accepted collateral beyond the USDG stablecoin, which had served as both the collateral and quote asset since Robinhood Chain’s mainnet launch on July 1. It follows Lighter’s earlier stated plan to add assets including tokenized gold, bitcoin and stocks as collateral during the third quarter, and builds on its shift to unified collateral across spot and futures trading. Robinhood Stock Tokens Robinhood Stock Tokens…

Strategy is raising funds through equity sales and using that to add more Bitcoin [$BTC] to its arsenal! As it stands, sentiment is weak, so investors are not fully back in profit-taking mode. Hence, the timing here is very peculiar. Strategy sells… and buys too! Between 15 and 21 June, Strategy sold 2.71 million MSTR shares through its at-the-market program. They raised $335.5 million in net proceeds. The company then used part of that capital to buy 520 $BTC for $34.9 million, at an average price of $67,068 per Bitcoin. Source: Strategy As of 21 June, the company held 847,363…

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Bybit, Circle (NYSE: CRCL), and Gemini lead the names on CNBC and Statista’s 2026 ranking of 500 global Fintechs. Coinbase, listed as decentralized, returned after appearing in an earlier edition. Bybit is based in Dubai, while Circle and Gemini are in New York. Statista’s ranking covers eight market groups and includes companies of different sizes. According to McKinsey, the fintech industry generated $650 billion in sales in 2025, up 21% from 2024. The $15 trillion financial services industry as a whole grew by 6%. Public listings also began to rebound, with 31 major fintech initial public offerings…

Pump.fun introduced ‘GO’ last week as a bounty marketplace where users can pay strangers in crypto to do almost anything. Within days, one of those bounties turned into a bizarre dispute over a forehead tattoo, a misspelled meme coin ticker, and a blocked 40 $SOL payout. Arivu, a man from Tamil Nadu, India, permanently tattooed the ticker exactly as written in the bounty prompt. Only afterward did he learn the post contained a typo. The mistake could have cost him the reward. Instead, Solana traders launched a token in his name and turned the failed payout into a five-figure payday.…

Celsius co-founders Shlomi Daniel Leon and Hanoch “Nuke” Goldstein have been ordered to pay over $6 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges alleging they misrepresented the safety of the Celsius platform before the company collapsed. Goldstein, Celsius’ former chief technology officer, was ordered to pay $2.014 million under an order signed Monday by US District Judge Denise Cote. Leon, the firm’s former chief strategy officer, was ordered to pay $4.1 million under a separate order entered on June 29. The settlements extend the fallout from the 2022 collapse of Celsius beyond its former CEO Alex Mashinsky. The crypto lending…

Today, Robinhood announced the launch of Multi-Asset Perpetual Futures on Bitstamp, marking a significant expansion in trading options. This new offering allows access to foreign exchange, equity indices, commodities, and cryptocurrencies from a unified pool of capital, enhancing flexibility for traders. The Key Development The crypto market has been experiencing mixed signals recently, with traders navigating varying momentum across major assets. Robinhood’s addition of Multi-Asset Perpetual Futures on Bitstamp comes at a time when cross-asset trading strategies are gaining traction among sophisticated investors. This product allows execution of diverse trading and hedging strategies through a USD-settled account using unified collateral.…

Ten dairy cows in Paraná, Brazil, carried encrypted identities that Cowmed collars had built from each animal’s health, behavior, and location data into B3 this week. Those identities turned the cows into collateral for nearly $20,000 in credit, and the record behind them aims to shrink the haircut lenders apply and stop lenders from pledging the same animal twice. Brazil’s pilot proves the mechanics work at a small scale, and the bigger opportunity sits in countries where farmers own valuable livestock and cannot borrow against it because they lack the land titles banks require. The global gap between what small…

Timothy Stebbing, Director at Dogecoin Foundation and CTO of House of Doge, confirmed attendance at New Zealand Crypto Event nzcryptocon, where Dogecoin’s utility took center stage. In a tweet, Stebbing hinted at an “awesome conversation in NZ about real dogecoin utility.” Awesome conversation in NZ about real dogecoin utility 🔥 https://t.co/iJ1YNuUj3T — Timothy Stebbing (@tjstebbing) June 7, 2026 This discussion follows as House of Doge, the official corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation, continues to focus on building real-world utility for Dogecoin through partnerships across payments, commerce, and financial services. This aims to make it easier for users to acquire,…