Author: NBTC

Russia has one of the highest divorce rates in the world. The fact that the country also has one of the highest crypto adoption rates doesn’t make the process any easier. Unlike tangible assets such as cars or real estate, splitting cryptocurrency during a divorce is rarely straightforward. The Law That Started the Problem Almost five in every 1,000 Russians go through a divorce each year. An already difficult process becomes even more complex when cryptocurrency is involved. Crypto adoption across Russia has surged in recent years. Russians have increasingly turned to digital assets to manage their finances, using them…

Solana-based memecoin launchpad pumpfun has rolled out a new feature that connects AI agents to tokenonomics, allowing projects to automatically funnel agent-generated revenue into token buybacks and burns. The tool, called Tokenized Agents, targets what pumpfun describes as a core problem in the growing “agentic economy” – a lack of value alignment between successful AI agent projects and the communities that form around them. How It Works Under the new system, developers launch a token on the platform, set a revenue buyback percentage, and integrate their agent using a provided configuration file. When the agent earns revenue, whether from SaaS…

TL;DR Tron leads in revenue due to its dominance in stablecoin ($USDT) transfers. Solana’s revenue fluctuates with high trading activity in meme coins. Ethereum’s reported revenue reflects fees paid, not total user spending. Blockchain networks in early 2026 have not crowned an undisputed revenue leader. Tron, Solana, and Ethereum trade positions depending on which reporting window analysts examine. February data positioned Solana atop the rankings with $26.7 million, while more recent March reports shifted Tron to the lead with $24.96 million over the previous thirty days. Ethereum recorded $23.2 million during February. Ranking volatility reflects fundamentally different operational architectures and…

Meta Platforms will shut down its Horizon Worlds metaverse for virtual reality users in June, pivoting to a mobile-only experience as it retreats from the aggressive metaverse push it championed just five years ago. Consumers will no longer be able to build, publish, or update virtual reality worlds, or access the Horizon Worlds metaverse on Meta Quest headsets, from June 15, the company said in a Tuesday blog post. Horizon Worlds launched in late 2021 as a VR-only, online multiplayer platform where users can build and publish virtual environments and games, and interact with others as avatars. Screenshot of a…

Ethereum price started a major increase above the $2,350 zone. $ETH is now showing positive signs and might aim for more gains above $2,380. Ethereum started a steady upward move above the $2,320 zone. The price is trading above $2,320 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a contracting triangle forming with resistance at $2,340 on the hourly chart of $ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to move up if it clears the $2,380 zone. Ethereum Price Aims Fresh Gains Ethereum price extended its upward move after it cleared the $2,250 zone, like Bitcoin. $ETH price…

After recently legalizing crypto banks, Belarus is now promising its citizens an array of services that should let them earn, stake and spend cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. A top central bank executive spoke in detail about the coin-based products that may hit the market as early as this year, with the nation awaiting the birth of its first crypto banking institution in 2026. Belarusian crypto banks to issue cards and loans backed by Bitcoin Belarusians may soon be able to pay with cryptocurrency in brick-and-mortar stores and borrow fiat money using their digital assets as collateral. That’s according to Alexander Egorov,…

Hong Kong court jails two mainland Chinese for laundering HK$17.3M in fraud proceeds. Police link 43 bank accounts to 34 fraud cases tied to HK$18M scam losses in probe. Operation DEEPATTACK arrests 13 suspects in cross-border laundering scheme. A Hong Kong court has sentenced two mainland Chinese nationals to prison after they admitted helping a criminal syndicate move millions in suspected fraud proceeds through the city’s banking system. The case highlights how organized groups continue to exploit financial accounts and digital assets to shift illicit money across borders. According to reports, the District Court handed down the sentences on March…

The price of oil has more than doubled in just two weeks, driving crypto platforms into a speculative frenzy that saw them list leveraged oil derivatives for overnight commodities futures experts willing to risk it all on-chain. The results were predictable. Tokenized crude oil perpetuals on Hyperliquid, a platform that earned initial fame from hedge fund-like copytrading and a leaderboard of leveraged degeneracy, have generated multiple, billion-dollar trading days this week. Oil has suddenly become Hyperliquid’s second-most popular market behind only bitcoin (BTC) itself. Open interest on Hyperliquid’s CL-USDC, a West Texas Intermediate crude futures-linked contract, exceeded $169 million. Trailing…

Chainlink is gaining a broader role in finance through projects with commercial lenders, central banks, and cross-border settlement networks. Its work with Swift, Deutsche Börse, and FTSE Russell shows growing use in tokenized assets and onchain market data. Chainlink has widened its footprint across commercial banks, central banks, exchanges, and market infrastructure providers. In a recent post, the network outlined an extensive list of institutions using its network, including banks like BNP Paribas and Bancolombia, exchanges like Deutsche Börse, payment rails like Swift and regulators like Singapore’s MAS, Hong Kong’s HKMA and the Central Bank of Brazil. These clients offer…

Orbs has moved to the front lines of automated DeFi execution with the launch of a dedicated execution layer, which it calls Orbs Agentic, a platform the team says is built to let autonomous trading agents operate onchain with stronger safety and verifiability. The new layer, created on top of Orbs’ Layer-3 architecture, adds a cosigned oracle verification step that independently checks agent-submitted execution parameters, things like slippage bounds, reference-price checks and trigger conditions, before a transaction is cosigned and broadcast to the underlying chain. The move is an explicit response to a fast-growing corner of crypto: programmatic, agent-driven trading…