Author: NBTC

The Bank Policy Institute, which represents Wall Street heavyweights including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup, is mulling a lawsuit against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over its push to hand federal banking charters to crypto and fintech firms. It arrives after the OCC, led by Jonathan Gould, a Trump appointee and former crypto executive, effectively lowered the bar for crypto and fintech companies to obtain national trust bank charters, granting them the right to operate across all 50 states, according to a report by The Guardian, which cited a source familiar with the matter. Circle, Ripple,…

The bitcoin mining industry is facing a severe hashrate shakeout, leading many independent operators to cease operations. In response, Hash2cash is pushing a high-tech rebranding by tokenizing hashrates on the $TON blockchain. A High-Tech Pivot in a Brutal Market As the bitcoin mining industry grapples with a brutal hashrate shakeout that has forced many independent operators to unplug, some in the cloud mining sector are attempting a high-tech rebranding. Leading this charge is Hash2cash, a cloud mining platform that recently claimed it is revolutionizing the industry by tokenizing hashrates on the $TON blockchain and integrating directly with Telegram. The move…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Attending World Liberty Financial’s forum at Mar-a-Lago felt less like a high-powered summit and more like an intimate gathering — if the guest list included people who control trillions in assets and the future of finance. Tucked beneath chandeliers and gold-painted trim, the guest list read like a who’s who of the industry’s old guard and rising disruptors. There were no name tags needed. Everyone seemed to know everyone, or at least know someone who did. The stage at the World Liberty forum. (CoinDesk) Conversations floated from the future of finance to how it might fix…

The US Treasury Department has sent a new crypto report to Congress under the GENIUS Act. The document is about 32 pages long. It focuses on ways to track and stop illegal activity that uses digital assets. Officials prepared the report as part of a rule included in the law passed in July 2025. 🚨NEW: US TREASURY SUBMITS GENIUS ACT CRYPTO REPORT TO CONGRESSThe United States Department of the Treasury has sent Congress a GENIUS-Act-mandated report on tools to combat crypto-enabled illicit finance.The report spans 32 pages. It outlines emerging methods used to monitor… pic.twitter.com/G98uNAt8eu — BSCN (@BSCNews) March 10,…

R3E Network has deployed a Trusted Execution Environment-powered oracle and pricefeed system on Neo N3 MainNet, bringing confidential computing capabilities and live price data to the network. The deployment, announced on March 10 by Jimmy Liao, Neo core developer and R3E Network founder, includes 34 synchronized price pairs updated directly on-chain. The oracle and pricefeed system, built under the project name Morpheus Matrix, follows a rapid stretch of infrastructure releases from R3E, including the neo3scan.com block explorer and the N3Index API and .matrix domain system. What TEE means for Neo oracles Trusted Execution Environments are hardware-secured enclaves that isolate code…

A new fourth quarter 2025 survey from tokenization platform Brickken suggests that the majority of real-world asset (RWA) issuers are using tokenization to raise capital rather than to unlock secondary market liquidity, according to a report shared with CoinDesk. Among respondents, 53.8% said capital formation and fundraising efficiency is their main reason for tokenizing, while 15.4% said the need for liquidity was their main incentive. Another 38.4% said liquidity was not needed, while 46.2% said they expect secondary market liquidity within six to 12 months. “What we’re seeing is a shift away from tokenization as a buzzword and toward tokenization…

South Korean courts are preparing to adjust how cryptocurrency investment losses are treated in personal rehabilitation proceedings as the country grapples with rising household debt. Under new judicial guidelines, certain crypto-related debts may be excluded from liquidation calculations, potentially lowering the repayment burden for individuals seeking debt restructuring. The policy change is being introduced as part of broader efforts by authorities to address the country’s growing personal debt pressures while managing the increasing number of bankruptcy and rehabilitation filings linked to investment losses. New Rehabilitation Courts Introduce Updated Guidelines Three newly opened rehabilitation courts in Daejeon, Daegu, and Gwangju began…

ENI has declared a new partnership with REI Network, designed to develop scalable and decentralized blockchain infrastructure to use in Web3 apps. The collaboration means that ENI is partnering with REI Network, a blockchain architecture that is high-end and zero-gas, as well as enterprise-grade infrastructures. Scalability shouldn’t come at the cost of decentralization.@ENI__Official × @GXChainGlobal 🤝By combining ENI’s enterprise-grade infrastructure with REI Network’s zero-gas, high-performance EVM chain, we’re pushing Web3 toward real adoption, not just speculation.⚡ Zero-fee… pic.twitter.com/o9R6X0LOgp — ENI (@ENI__Official) March 11, 2026 The project aims to solve one of the most enduring problems in blockchain development which is…

The Dubai Land Department (DLD) and tokenization firm Ctrl Alt unveiled a secondary market for real estate-backed tokens, enabling the resale of $5 million in fractional property ownership in an announcement on Friday. Roughly 7.8 million tokens tied to ten Dubai properties are now eligible for trading within a controlled market environment. Transactions will take place on a regulated distribution platform, recorded on the $XRP Ledger blockchain and secured by Ripple Custody. The effort is part of Dubai’s ambitious plan to become a global hub for real estate tokenization, turning ownership in properties into tradable tokens on blockchain rails. Proponents…

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig said the U.S. derivatives regulator will not decide which products market participants should be allowed to trade, outlining an enforcement approach centered on fraud and manipulation rather than setting policy through lawsuits. Speaking at the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Florida, Selig said the agency intends to step back from what he described as enforcement-driven policymaking. “The CFTC is not a merit-based regulator – we do not decide what people should be able to trade,” Selig said. “Nor are we going to regulate through enforcement.” The comments signal how the new…