Author: NBTC

The European Central Bank and France’s central bank are supposed to be on the same team. Right now, they’re reading from very different playbooks on the future of digital money in Europe. Denis Beau, deputy governor of the Banque de France, is pushing hard for the rapid development of euro-denominated tokenized money and stablecoins, built in partnership with the private sector. ECB President Christine Lagarde, meanwhile, would rather keep the spotlight on the central bank’s own digital euro project, treating private stablecoins as a secondary concern at best. Two visions, one currency Beau’s argument is straightforward: Europe can’t afford to…

$ASTEROID Shiba is currently down around 14.82% in the past 24 hours, trading near 0.000368. The correction comes after $ASTEROID’s massive 731,582% surge over the past 30 days, triggering aggressive profit-taking from traders who entered early in the rally. Unknown Trader Makes Over $1 Million The token made headlines today after blockchain analytics platform Arkham revealed that a mystery trader with only nine followers on X turned a small investment into a massive win. THIS GUY HAS 9 FOLLOWERS – HE JUST MADE A MILLION DOLLARSNobody knows who trader @404eq is – but he bought $17.5K of $ASTEROID at an…

A U.K. House of Lords committee said the Bank of England (BOE) should reconsider its proposed limits on consumer stablecoin holdings in a new report. The cross-party Financial Services Regulation Committee of the U.K. Parliament’s second chamber also advised reconsideration of requirements for stablecoin issuers to hold at least 40% of backing assets in central bank deposits yielding no interest in its “Stablecoins: waiting for regulation” report published Wednesday. Stablecoins are digital tokens pegged to the value of a traditional financial asset, such as a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar or the pound sterling. As central banks and lawmakers…

All within a matter of weeks, Anthropic unveiled new agents for finance, Circle launched nanopayments, MoonPay launched a debit card for agents and Gemini launched agentic trading, signaling the agentic finance fight is here. Whilst the products are new, the underlying business model remains the same. Every exchange and brokerage earns more when customers trade more, and the data on what that does for customer portfolios is unambiguous. Ultimately, agentic rails have arrived faster than incentives have changed. The perverse incentives exchanges hope you miss The conflict is structural to the industry. Brokerages and exchanges don’t need customers to win,…

US-based Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which are widely tracked to gauge institutional sentiment, just shed a whopping $1.2 billion, according to the most recent data. Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s head of firmwide research, has noted that this massive wave of withdrawals is actually the third most negative week for these products. the spot bitcoin ETP outflows continued this week with -$1.2b making it the 3rd most negative week of 2026 pic.twitter.com/f7ri6sVAqb — Alex Thorn (@intangiblecoins) May 23, 2026 That said, Bitcoin is down less than 2% over the past week despite the brutal outflows. Relentless outflows This week, Bitcoin ETFs started…

BitMine has topped up its large Ethereum holdings with another major purchase spotted earlier today according to data provided by blockchain monitoring firm, Lookonchain. This is coming about a week after the firm bought about $237 million worth of Ethereum, which marked its largest weekly purchase seen so far in 2026. BitMine tops up treasury with 25,000 $ETH According to data provided by the tracker, BitMine has closed the week with another purchase of 25,000 $ETH worth $50,413,250 per Ethereum’s price at the time of the purchase. The purchase was made with a single large transfer where the firm withdrew…

A cryptocurrency address suspected to be linked to Matrixport, a prominent digital asset financial services platform, has deposited 403,289 $HYPE tokens—valued at approximately $17.4 million—to the Hyperliquid exchange and appears to have initiated selling activity. On-chain data from Lookonchain reveals that the address has already sold roughly 100,000 $HYPE, realizing about 4.24 million $USDC in the process. Details of the Transaction The deposit, detected by blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, represents a significant move of $HYPE tokens to Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange known for its perpetual futures trading. The wallet, which has not been officially confirmed as belonging to Matrixport, began…

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) have formally agreed to cooperate on the regulation of stablecoins. According to a report by Decrypt, the two authorities signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that establishes a framework for collaboration, with a particular focus on information sharing to support the supervision of stablecoin issuers and activities. What the Agreement Entails The MoU between the NYDFS and the EBA marks a significant step in cross-border regulatory alignment for digital assets. While the exact terms of the agreement have not been fully disclosed, the core objective…

Hyperliquid’s SPACEX-USDH perpetual contract suffered a violent flash crash on Thursday afternoon, plunging from an open of $2,277 to a low of $1,254, a near-45% collapse, within a single 30-minute window before partially recovering to around $2,169. The move liquidated 405 users across 1,393 positions, wiping $1.51 million in notional value, Hyperliquid data shows. What makes the episode particularly striking is the volume concentration. Over the past 24 hours the contract had drifted quietly, generating just $4.87 million in total trading volume across an open interest base of under $2.9 million. Then one candle absorbed what was likely the bulk…

Bloomberg reported on May 22 that bond traders are fully pricing in a Fed interest rate hike by year-end, with interest rate swaps implying the Fed’s benchmark rate at least 25 basis points higher by the end of 2026. The same day, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said the Fed should remove its easing bias and called rate cut talk “crazy” as inflation held above target and the labor market stayed stable. Bitcoin lost the $76,000 footing on May 22, a move tied to US-Iran uncertainty and the repricing of Fed rate expectations. That price action captures only part of the…