Author: NBTC

You press send on a crypto transaction and nothing happens. The wallet says pending. The block explorer shows your transaction floating in limbo, unconfirmed, with no clear indication of when, or whether, it will land. Most people meet the mempool for the first time in exactly this moment of mild panic, and most of the advice they find assumes they already know what a mempool is. This guide starts from zero. The mempool, short for memory pool, is the waiting room where every blockchain transaction sits between the moment you broadcast it and the moment a miner or validator writes…

Strategy has sold another large batch of Bitcoin, prompting comparisons with its only previous major $BTC sale in late 2022. A popular post on X noted that the last time Michael Saylor’s company sold a significant amount of Bitcoin, $BTC later climbed roughly fivefold from its bear-market low. Some traders believe history could repeat itself. Strategy Sells 3,588 $BTC to Fund Dividends On Monday, Michael Saylor announced that Strategy sold 3,588 $BTC for approximately $216 million. The proceeds will fund dividends on the company’s Digital Credit securities. After the sale, Strategy said it still holds: 843,775 $BTC in its Bitcoin…

Spot Bitcoin ETFs are bleeding capital at a pace that demands attention. A fresh reading from the on-chain update shows a single-day net outflow of 6,165 $BTC on July 2—worth roughly $379.6 million—bringing the seven-day total to an uncomfortable $2.02 billion. Ethereum ETFs managed a fleeting reprieve with a daily inflow of 21,568 $ETH, but the weekly picture remains firmly negative. Institutional flow data rarely delivers such a clear message. Across both assets, the weekly trend is red. Bitcoin led the exodus with 32,807 $BTC withdrawn over seven days. Ethereum’s seven-day sum stood at -54,411 $ETH, a $92.3 million deficit…

While $XRP holders in the United States and Europe spend 2026 debating ETF flows and price charts, Japan has been quietly doing something no other country has managed: building a regulated, consumer-facing financial infrastructure on the $XRP Ledger. Prepaid tokens licensed under national law, a Deloitte-attested stablecoin, tokenized bonds paying $XRP bonuses, and a publicly listed conglomerate that compensates its own shareholders in the token. This is what $XRP adoption in Japan actually looks like — not a whitepaper, not a partnership announcement, but a decade of licensed deployment inside the world’s third-largest economy. Key takeaways Japan is the only…

Celo has enhanced its collaboration with Ledger by integrating a key network feature into the hardware wallet provider’s platform, offering more flexible transaction fee options to users worldwide. Ledger supports Celo’s CIP-64 fee abstraction Ledger has implemented support for Celo’s fee abstraction, made possible through the network’s CIP-64 upgrade. This change allows users to pay transaction fees using a variety of Celo-native assets, rather than being restricted to the $CELO token. The new functionality builds on Ledger Live’s December 2025 update, where users gained the ability to transact and exchange $CELO and Celo stablecoins through Ledger’s interface. With this latest…

Bitcoin is bouncing from its weekly Bollinger Band support, but the next move may not be clean. If $BTC holds $62,700 and sweeps $65,600, bulls could keep the path toward $70,000 alive, while rejection there may send price back toward $60,500. Bitcoin Bollinger Band Bounce Puts $70K Back in Focus Bitcoin has bounced from the lower weekly Bollinger Band, giving bulls a clear recovery setup after weeks of weakness. If momentum holds, the next key test sits near the middle band around $70,000. $BTC/USD weekly chart. Source: Sky on X, TradingView The chart shows $BTC reacting from the lower Bollinger…

Ethereum [$ETH] has historically struggled to sustain its outperformance against Bitcoin. On the technical front, $ETH/$BTC last posted a strong quarterly rally in Q3 2025, surging 53%, marking its biggest quarterly gain since Q2 2021. However, sellers erased 50% of those gains as the rally lost momentum. This suggests the rotation was temporary, as capital continued to flow into Bitcoin. Against this backdrop, the ratio’s 5% rally so far in Q3 appears too early to confirm a sustained rotation from Bitcoin into Ethereum. At the same time, Bitcoin dominance is once again pushing toward the key 60% resistance level, gaining…

U.S.-linked wallets appear to be the largest political trading group on Polymarket’s global platform, even though the platform lists the United States as a blocked country. Blockchain data firm Allium said in a July 3 report that the U.S. was the biggest national political market by contracts traded among wallets it could link to a country. The firm said its data covered only about 6% of wallets with country tags, so the results should be treated as directional. Still, Allium said the pattern was clear enough to show that US demand did not disappear after access blocks. “Blocking access did…

More than $1.4 billion in token unlocks hit the market during the week of January 26 to February 2, 2026, based on figures from CoinGecko. Sui takes the top spot by dollar value, trailed by a group of DeFi, layer-2, and AI projects. Of that total, $154.95 million arrives as cliff releases, which means those tokens enter circulation in single batches rather than a slow drip. SUI headlines this week’s token unlocks The Sui coin leads the pack with a massive $62.68 million release. However, although the figure is quite high, the supply will only get boosted by 1.14%, which…

In June 2025, a week before the $XRP Ledger’s EVM sidechain went live, the team building it published the arithmetic of what was coming. Polygon had contributed somewhere between $2 billion and $6 billion in total value locked to Ethereum, up to a tenth of the whole. If the XRPL EVM sidechain matched that trajectory, the post argued, the uplift to the $XRP Ledger would run from $600 million to $12 billion, and it would fundamentally change the demand curve for $XRP. Ninety entities were already building. Sixty days of testnet had pulled in developers who had never touched the…