Author: NBTC

Circle’s (CRCL) upcoming Arc blockchain and its $222 million token presale are raising a broader question for crypto investors: should Circle still be valued mainly as a stablecoin issuer, or as an infrastructure company building the rails for digital finance? Alongside its quarterly earnings this week, the company announced a major fundraising round for Arc ahead of a planned summer launch, valuing the network at roughly $3 billion backed by investors including a16z crypto, Apollo, BlackRock and ARK Invest. While earnings results were mixed, the news resonated well with investors, as Circle shares surged more than 15% on Monday, suggesting…

Pendle’s $PENDLE token went live on Revolut on Wednesday, the yield-tokenization protocol said in a post on X, giving roughly 20 million crypto traders across the UK and the European Economic Area direct access to $PENDLE through Europe’s largest fintech app. $PENDLE was little changed at $1.36 with a market capitalization of about $233 million at the time of the listing, ranking #165 on CoinGecko. The token is down about 82% from its $7.50 all-time high set in April 2024. The underlying Pendle protocol holds $1.32 billion in TVL on DefiLlama, with 57% on Ethereum and 14% on Plasma, and…

As part of efforts to enhance network automation and streamline user experience, Astarter, a recognized DeFi hub, today joined forces with Orix AI, an AI-focused Web3 project. This strategic partnership enabled Astarter to integrate Orix’s AI agents, a move aiming to bolster its DeFi platform, improve network automation and adaptability, and, as a result, streamline operations, enhance quality decision-making, and enrich user engagement. Astarter is a decentralized platform that provides users with various DeFi services. Its protocol is built on the Cardano blockchain, offering four core user applications, including a launchpad (allowing users to buy project tokens at an early…

The Open Network ($TON), the layer-1 blockchain integrated with messaging platform Telegram, saw its share of the cross-chain non-fungible token ($NFT) market surge by 130.4% in the first quarter of 2025, capturing 35.5% of the market. The data comes from a Q1 report published by blockchain analytics firm Messari, which highlights a stark contrast between $TON’s growing $NFT footprint and declining metrics in other areas of its ecosystem. $NFT Growth Amid Broader Ecosystem Contraction According to Messari’s report, the sharp increase in $TON’s cross-chain $NFT market share occurred during a period when the native token $TON saw its spot price…

Kevin Hassett, the Director of the White House National Economic Council, is pushing back against proposals that would create a sprawling new government apparatus to evaluate and approve artificial intelligence models. His position, articulated on May 6, 2026, lands squarely in the middle of an intensifying debate over how Washington should handle AI systems that are growing more powerful by the quarter. The FDA model, minus the FDA The administration is reportedly considering an executive order that would create evaluations for AI models similar to how the Food and Drug Administration vets new drugs before they hit the market. The…

The cryptocurrency market has seen remarkable activity. Test (TST) has surged over 110% in the last 24 hours, reaching its highest level since October last year. It is suggested that the sharp rise is due to large-scale and organized position taking. According to the data, the process began approximately 24 hours ago with a newly created wallet being funded with 900,000 USDC via Bitget. This wallet transferred these assets to the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid and opened an aggressive long position in TST. This position, which was gradually expanded, reportedly reached 133.6 million TST (approximately $3 million), and the whale…

The U.S. cryptocurrency industry has flexed its campaign-finance might to help dethrone veteran incumbents and elevate new allies in Texas and other states as the congressional midterm season approaches full velocity, though the arrival of new political action committees may put the sector’s meticulous bipartisanship in question. Fairshake is still an unrivaled channel for millions of old-fashioned U.S. dollars to steer primary elections, but other crypto super PAC names have crept into the conversation, getting louder in the wake of this week’s Texas primaries. And the collective crypto spending is already contributing to real consequences for the next Congress. The…

Deel, the global payroll and compliance platform serving 40,000 businesses and 1.5 million workers across 150-plus countries, has tapped Stripe’s full crypto-infrastructure stack to launch DLUSD, a USD-denominated stablecoin balance contractors can hold, earn rewards on, and spend without leaving the Deel app. The product went live in Argentina on June 3. Remaining Latin America markets follow in the coming weeks, with Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, and Africa after that, according to a Stripe newsroom press release. The Three-Layer Architecture The deployment bundles all three of Stripe’s crypto-infrastructure acquisitions in one enterprise product. Bridge, a Stripe company,…

M3 DAO, a well-known community-led Web3 network, has partnered with FISH, a prominent Web3 gaming ecosystem. The partnership between M3 DAO and FISH aims to combine engaging Web3 entertainment with decentralized governance. As per M3 DAO’s official social media announcement, the development underscores the start of a new era of player engagement with the launch of the much-anticipated open beta of FISH. Additionally, M3 DAO will effectively channel 200,000-plus community members into the competitive PvP setting of FISH, fortifying participation across gameplay missions and tournaments. M3 DAO x FISH Partnership! 🤹Expanding the frontiers of community governance and Web3 entertainment. As…

Goldman Sachs warned that macro uncertainties remain significant, though short-term risk has eased for equities. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield climbed past 4.63%, reported AMBCrypto, the highest level since February 2025. A lack of clarity regarding the U.S.-Iran peace talks and rising oil prices contribute to the macro risk outlook. Source: $BTC/USDT on TradingView Since Friday, the 15th of May, Bitcoin [$BTC] has corrected by 5.15%, falling from $81k to $76.9k. The 4-hour chart has a bullish structure, but the area up to $90k was a higher timeframe supply zone. Source: CryptoQuant The recent losses were almost entirely driven by…