Author: NBTC

Most people who hold $USDC or $USDT just let it sit in their wallet. Maple wants to change what a stablecoin can actually do, and now its tokens are easier to trade thanks to a new integration with 1inch. Maple’s syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT tokens are now available through 1inch, a decentralized trading platform that scans liquidity across multiple blockchains to help users swap assets at the best available price, all while keeping custody of their own funds. In this case, 1inch handles the routing and swapping for Maple’s tokens, while Maple continues to manage the underlying lending activity. What Maple…

Robinhood Chain, the blockchain launched by US brokerage Robinhood earlier this month, has climbed to the top of crypto developer activity rankings in less than two weeks, a rare feat for a new network and another sign that traditional finance companies are gaining traction in Web3. The significant event became known after the CEO of Alchemy Nikil Viswanathan stated on X on July 21 that Robinhood Chain had “just hit #1.” As Alchemy is one of the partners for launching the network, it is also possible to verify the information from Electric Capital’s live Developer Report dashboard, which monitors the…

Ethereum held above $1,900 for four consecutive daily closes, a streak last recorded more than one month ago. At press time, Ethereum [$ETH] traded around $1,914 after declining 0.79% over 24 hours. As $ETH defended this level, two large buyers added over 30,000 tokens through separate transactions. Why are Ethereum whales buying? According to Lookonchain, a whale bought 27,000 $ETH worth $52.03 million through Galaxy Digital OTC. The transaction followed three months of wallet inactivity, marking a notable return to the market. However, one purchase cannot confirm that the whale expects Ethereum’s broader downturn to be over. Lookonchain also reported…

Warner Bros. Discovery has locked in bondholder approval to amend its debt terms, removing one of the final private-sector obstacles standing between Hollywood and its biggest merger in decades. The deal with Paramount Skydance carries an enterprise value of roughly $110 billion. WBD shareholders had already greenlit the transaction on April 23, 2026. The bondholder consent, sought around May 20, was the necessary follow-up to ensure the company’s existing debt covenants wouldn’t torpedo the financing structure underpinning the entire deal. What the deal actually looks like The $110 billion enterprise value reflects the combined equity and debt of the merged…

Nasdaq-listed TonStrategy (TONX), a strategic investor in Telegram’s TON blockchain, reported on June 8 that it earned 3.3 million TON in staking rewards during May. At current market prices, those rewards are valued at approximately $5.6 million. Staking Yield Shows Steady Growth According to The Block, TonStrategy’s annualized staking yield for May reached 1.48%, an increase of 0.09 percentage points from the previous month. While modest, the incremental rise signals consistent network activity and validator performance on the TON blockchain. As of the end of May, the company held 227.5 million TON, with the vast majority — 226.8 million tokens…

The lobby representing JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup has retained counsel to challenge the regulator that approved crypto’s bank charters. No suit has been filed. The threat is doing the work, and the fight underneath it decides who gets to be a bank in America. The most consequential legal document in crypto right now has not been filed, may never be filed, and is shaping behavior anyway. Since March, the Bank Policy Institute, the Washington lobby whose membership rolls read as a list of everyone crypto was built to route around, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, roughly forty of America’s largest…

Ondo Finance said it has deployed its tokenized stocks as collateral on OndoPerps, a perpetual futures venue, starting with $SPYon and QQQon, in a post published Monday on X. The OndoPerps account said tokenized stock collateral is “live” and “now available for all users,” letting Ondo Stocks back perpetual futures positions. $SPYon and QQQon are tokenized versions of exchange-traded funds tracking the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100. Ondo Stocks are tokenized stocks, ETFs and ADRs that give holders economic exposure to underlying assets but are not themselves those securities, and the tokens are issued by Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited.…

$NEAR Protocol, a blockchain, has launched its 2.13 network upgrade, adding quantum-safe transaction signing and dynamic resharding to the mainnet. The update brings the network a new signing scheme approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and allows the blockchain to scale its capacity automatically as demand grows. The upgrade introduces ML-DSA, a post-quantum cryptographic standard designed to protect digital signatures from future quantum attacks. $NEAR’s account model makes the transition simpler. Unlike networks where addresses are closely tied to a single cryptographic keypair, $NEAR accounts use human-readable IDs with rotatable access keys. This allows users…

Robbie Mitchnick, the head of digital assets at BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), has warned that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom has been sucking the oxygen out of Bitcoin ($BTC). Mitchnick said that everything not tied to the AI trade, including Bitcoin, has struggled since the start of Q4 2025, according to an interview with Yahoo Finance on June 22, 2026. As a result, investors have poured capital into AI-centric assets, such as AI stocks, at the expense of Bitcoin. “It’s been a tough stretch for Bitcoin since last October for all of crypto, and that’s consistent in many ways with…

Ethereum [$ETH] is currently seeing strong staking demand compared to the market distress in Q4 2025. According to analytics platform Arkham, the Ethereum validator exit queue has dropped to zero with no waiting time, signaling that stakers have ‘long-term conviction.’ For comparison, during the market crash late last year, $ETH queued for exit peaked at 2.6M $ETH, and the waiting time was about 44 days. Now, it takes 0 minutes to withdraw staked $ETH. Source: Validator Queue Will Ethereum staking demand boost $ETH value? In contrast, the entry queue is taking nearly 44 days to get into the staking ecosystem.…