Author: NBTC

As of August 26, 2026, Ethereum price today is holding near $2,465.59, resting directly on its daily pivot at $2,458.09. The daily RSI has reached 76.06, deeply overbought, while intraday charts coil tightly beneath key resistance. $ETH/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways Ethereum is trading around $2,465.59 on August 26, 2026, just above its daily pivot of $2,458.09. The daily RSI14 has reached 76.06, a deeply overbought reading despite intact trend structure. Hourly and 15-minute charts show tightly converged EMAs and compressed volatility, signaling consolidation. Total crypto market cap fell 4.28% in 24 hours to…

GIB UK, the British arm of Saudi government-owned Gulf International Bank, has disclosed a holding of 19,842 shares in Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), valued at approximately $2.27 million, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.net. This position grants the bank indirect exposure to Bitcoin, as Strategy is the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of the cryptocurrency. Context and Significance of the Holding The disclosure emerges amid a broader trend of traditional financial institutions seeking indirect avenues to digital assets without directly purchasing cryptocurrencies. Strategy, under the leadership of Michael Saylor, has amassed over 200,000 $BTC on its balance sheet, making its stock…

Less than 24 hours after joining Pump Fun, the two memecoins tied most closely to Martin Shkreli are down 94%. On Monday, Shkreli drew over 700,000 views on his announcement that he would join the Solana memecoin launchpad and start livestreaming his trades. Elated, PumpFun’s official account welcomed him, claiming he already had a 6,263% gain and $1.6 million in his wallet within one day. At time of writing, CITRINI, which he created, and MARTIN, a namesake coin that topped Shkreli’s trading history before his CITRINI transactions, have each crashed at least 94% since their highs yesterday. Traders have been…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reportedly interacting with Astrobase Space co-founder Neeraj Khandelwal. Industry experts consider the move a highlight of India’s growing push to move beyond state-led space programs and give private deep-tech companies a bigger role, potentially creating a model for other emerging technologies. In his latest post on X, CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta expressed delight about the development, stating that it is heartening to see the government actively encouraging builders in such new high-potential sectors. Gupta believes the move will create more jobs, progress India’s tech ecosystem, and get the Indian community closer to “Viksit Bharat”,…

BitMEX recorded 39,449,400 XBTUSD contracts of open interest at 01:55 UTC on Aug. 10 as the exchange approached a two-stage shutdown. BitMEX will block new positions on Aug. 26 and force-close anything still open when exchange services end on Sept. 23. XBTUSD is an inverse Bitcoin perpetual whose contracts do not expire during normal trading. BitMEX’s contract specification sets each contract at $1 of Bitcoin, so the Aug. 10 count represented $39.45 million of face value, or about 605.45 BTC at the reported mark price of $65,156.99. The instrument data is a timestamped snapshot of one market. The $39.45 million…

A Record-Low Rial and a New Sanctions Wave Iran’s open-market exchange rate slid to roughly 2.02 million rials per dollar earlier this week, down from 1.53 million during Q1 this year. The slide came the same week the Trump administration launched Operation Economic Outcast, a sweeping sanctions package first announced on August 19 that added more than 60 entities to the Treasury’s blacklist. Most notably, he named digital assets as a sanctionable sector for the first time alongside technology, gold, aviation and shipping. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the goal is to force Iran’s state-run Bank Melli to go “shuttered…

US equity markets moving toward 23-hour, five-day trading still leave 53 hours each week without a national quotation, creating a pricing gap for continuous markets. Pyth covers more than 220 US equities on a 24/5 basis, while Hyperliquid uses discovery bounds and Pyth constructed indices to support weekend pricing. HIP-3 markets have exceeded $540 billion in volume, with 407,000 traders and more than $4 billion in open interest. US equity markets are moving toward 23-hour trading, five days a week, but that still leaves 53 hours without a national quotation. Hyperliquid and Pyth are positioning their infrastructure around that remaining…

American Bitcoin Corp., the Bitcoin miner co founded by Eric Trump and majority owned by Hut 8, reported a $57.2 million net loss for the second quarter on Aug. 3. The result included a $71.2 million loss on digital assets, even as the company delivered record production and expanded its reserve to approximately 8,002 $BTC, according to its official quarterly results. The loss narrowed from $81.8 million in the first quarter. Revenue increased from $62.1 million to $67 million, while adjusted EBITDA remained negative at $45 million, compared with a $91.3 million loss three months earlier. American Bitcoin’s asset loss…

MSX, a real-world asset (RWA) platform, has officially opened buyback applications for Anthropic and Polymarket, the two projects in its second pre-IPO tranche. The move allows early investors to exit their positions at current market valuations, with Polymarket’s reference price having surged to $202.67 per share from its original subscription price of $152—an estimated return of 33.3%. How the Buyback Process Works Users who subscribed to these pre-IPO tokens can now apply for redemption based on the latest market price. Upon approval, they receive settlement in $USDT (a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar), effectively locking in their gains. Alternatively,…

Cryptocurrency asset management company Grayscale has launched a new exchange-traded product (ETF) in the US, offering investment in the privacy-focused altcoin Zcash ($ZEC). The company’s Zcash ETF, ZCSH, began trading on the NYSE Arca today. Created by converting the Grayscale Zcash Trust into an ETF, ZCSH is the first exchange-traded product in the US to focus on $ZEC. According to shared data, as of August 24, the fund had approximately $314 million in assets under management, with approximately 387,200 $ZEC in its portfolio. The annual management fee for ZCSH has been set at 2.5%. Grayscale also announced that revenue from…