Author: NBTC

Farside Investors’ new BIP-110 signaling alerts have put Bitcoin’s arbitrary-data dispute on a live deadline, giving exchanges, wallets, miners, pools, and node operators a concrete August window to plan around even while miner signaling remains low. A July 3 Farside post reported a new BIP-110 signaling block and listed 7 signaling blocks in the current period. Farside’s Q&A says its X account will post automatically each time a BIP-110 signaling block is produced. Miner support remains minimal. BGeometrics’ daily API, retrieved July 3 and current through July 2, shows 38 BIP-110 signaling blocks out of 9,066 total blocks since May…

Ethereum trades at $1,827.95 on July 17, down 1.89%, giving back gains after pushing above the descending trendline that capped every recovery attempt since February. The pullback is arriving with open interest falling 5.99% and long liquidations hitting $84.93M in 24 hours, pointing to leveraged traders getting shaken out rather than sellers driving a trend reversal. $ETH Price Today: Trendline Break Meets First Real Test $ETH 1D Price Action (Source: TradingView) The daily chart shows $ETH breaking above the descending trendline that has defined the bear trend since February, with price now pulling back toward the 50-day EMA at $1,809.16…

Julian Sawyer, CEO of Zodia Custody, described Standard Chartered’s ongoing acquisition of the firm as a “major validation” that highlights a growing reality in mainstream finance: legacy banks cannot build institutional-grade digital asset custody safely or efficiently without proper software. Instead of treating crypto as an isolated sector, Sawyer noted that the industry is hitting a maturity point where the underlying blockchain infrastructure is moving toward real-world asset tokenization and stablecoin payments. “This is the maturity point of where custody of the blockchain…is moving from crypto to other assets, stable coins and tokenization,” he said in an interview with CoinDesk…

A resurfaced video of Elon Musk discussing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin is making the rounds on X again. The clip is from a 2024 podcast interview and was recently shared by Bitcoin advocate Jack Carroll. In it, Musk warns investors not to blindly trust cryptocurrency promotions they see online. ELON MUSK: “I’m not going to be promoting crypto, at most, in a joking way. If you see me pumping crypto, it’s not me. I do think there’s merit in Bitcoin. I’ve sort of got a soft spot for Dogecoin because I like dogs and memes.” pic.twitter.com/19oGGn4NY2 — Teddy –…

Pakistan is home to roughly 40 million crypto users — the third-largest base in the world — and its regulators are now navigating a collision course between digital finance ambition and Islamic legal authority. At the heart of this tension sits a fatwa issued on June 10 that declared digital asset payments, including stablecoins like $USDT, impermissible under Islamic law. For a country building one of the more ambitious crypto regulatory frameworks in the developing world, that ruling is not a minor footnote. Key takeaways A fatwa issued on June 10 declared digital asset payments, including $USDT and other stablecoins,…

A crypto whale has reopened a large leveraged position on Hyperliquid’s SKHX perpetual market. The move comes just days after the trader took a multi-million-dollar loss, as market participants continue positioning ahead of SK Hynix’s expected Nasdaq debut. On-chain data shows wallet 0x66F4 deposited 20.32 million USDC into Hyperliquid. It then opened a 2x leveraged long position of 15,121 SKHX, worth about $22.5 million. Onchain Lens Breaks Down the Trade Blockchain tracker Onchain Lens also reported the latest transaction. It said this was the wallet’s first trade since May 23. The position was opened at $1,480.57, with a liquidation price…

Bitcoin is trading near $61,000 after recovering from recent lows, but forecasts for where the cryptocurrency could finish 2026 remain widely divided. While institutional demand continues to support the long-term outlook, macroeconomic uncertainty, ETF flows, and interest rate expectations are keeping traders cautious. Claude AI Fable 5 places Bitcoin’s most likely year-end outcome between $58,000 and $75,000, while outlining a bullish scenario toward $95,000 and a bearish case around $50,000. The forecast aligns with the broad range of estimates currently circulating across prediction markets, investment banks, and technical analysts, highlighting how uncertain the second half of the year remains. Prediction…

Ethereum has reclaimed $1,750, giving bulls their first meaningful sign of a wider recovery. However, the long-term downtrend remains intact unless $ETH breaks resistance, leaving $2,100 above and $1,200 below as the two major scenarios. Ethereum Faces Another Rejection as $1,200 Risk Returns Ethereum is testing the same descending trendline that has rejected every major recovery attempt since 2025. Another failure near $1,850 could keep the bearish structure intact and expose significantly lower support. $ETH weekly chart. Source: Mister Crypto/X The chart highlights four contacts with the trendline, near $4,600, $3,300, $2,400 and now $1,850. Each previous rejection produced a…

India’s crypto industry continues to await regulatory clarity and tax reforms. In an interview with Coinpedia, Nischal Shetty shared his views on the country’s crypto tax structure, the impact of the 1% TDS, stablecoin adoption, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), and the future of crypto regulation in India. Nischal Shetty Wants TDS Reduced or Removed Shetty said he remains hopeful about future changes to India’s crypto tax regime, although he declined to put a timeline on policy decisions. “My honest wish is that we either scrap the TDS or bring it down to something like 0.01%.” According to Shetty, the current…

The CEO of Evernorth, the largest public $XRP treasury company, believes $XRP’s biggest advantage goes beyond technology. Speaking on a recent podcast, Asheesh Birla said Ripple’s long-standing relationships with financial institutions and regulators could help drive institutional adoption of $XRP. He argued that these connections are creating the “connective tissue” between blockchain and traditional finance. Birla also suggested Evernorth could pursue another fundraising round to increase its $XRP holdings. $XRP Needs More Than Technology Discussing $XRP’s role among institutional blockchain networks such as Canton Network, Birla said critics once labeled $XRP the “bank chain.” However, he argued that working with…