Author: NBTC

Asheesh Birla, the CEO of $XRP treasury company Evernorth, recently shared observations that portray South Korea as a mature digital asset market, particularly for $XRP. Reflecting on last week’s Bitcoin Seoul conference, Birla revealed that $XRP surpassed Bitcoin as one of the most actively traded cryptocurrencies in the country. Birla emphasized $XRP’s strong presence in the Korean market, noting that the $XRP/KRW trading pair consistently ranks among the most active markets on Upbit, the nation’s largest crypto exchange. According to Birla, $XRP periodically generates more trading volume than Bitcoin and Ethereum during intense market activity. Consequently, South Korea has cemented…

Crypto Advocates Escalate Pressure on Senate Stand With Crypto, a Coinbase-backed grassroots crypto advocacy group, said on July 22 that supporters have made 950,000 contacts and counting with members of Congress as the campaign to advance the CLARITY Act enters a decisive stage. The group described the bipartisan legislation as a consumer-focused measure that has been years in the making and urged senators to take up the bill. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong joined the push during a visit to Capitol Hill, thanking the group’s members for contacting their representatives and urging lawmakers to complete work on the legislation. Armstrong wrote…

South Korea’s major crypto exchanges have seen their trading activity fall sharply over the past year as the country’s stock market surged, suggesting retail speculative interest may be shifting toward equities, Cointelegraph analysis shows. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) benchmark more than doubled over the period, while volumes across the country’s largest won-based crypto platforms contracted. Cointelegraph reviewed CoinGecko’s historical 24-hour volume readings for Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax, comparing seven-day periods in July 2025 and July 2026. After calculating the average daily volume and year-over-year percentage change, Cointelegraph took the simple, unweighted average of the five…

MetaMask will cover gas fees on swap transactions exceeding the $200 threshold. The program includes operations within the Solana network and swaps to other blockchains. The measure was reported by the specialized portal SolanaFloor on July 21, 2026. To simplify Solana trading, the digital wallet MetaMask announced automatic coverage of network fees. The measure applies to swap operations that exceed the $200 threshold within the application. $SOL-less? we gotchu covered. 💜 MetaMask will now pay the gas fee for you on Solana swaps over $200. pic.twitter.com/qOOWPeslHs — MetaMask 🦊 (@MetaMask) July 21, 2026 A market report indicates that the rebate…

Bitcoin ($BTC) is “compressed” at low levels but its classic cycles remain intact, say new research. Key points: Bitcoin is acting just like in prior cycles as it circles a key four-year trend line. Analysis says that $BTC price action is currently “compressed” as it trades below a $76,400 target. A new estimate put the bear market as just over 70% complete. Analysis on $62,000 $BTC price: Bitcoin “not broken” In an X post on Wednesday, analyst David Eng said that $BTC price action still “runs on two clocks.” “400-day clock, $BTC looks cyclical. ~4-year clock, the cycle noise gets…

In brief Ten cows at Fazenda Engenho Velho in Imbituva, Paraná, backed a R$100,000 CPR-F loan registered on B3. This is the first tokenized livestock collateral formally accepted on Brazil’s stock exchange. Each cow was given a unique blockchain ID, generated from AI-sensor collar data collected by Cowmed, eliminating the need for in-person farm inspections and the steep discounts banks apply to livestock collateral. Ten cows on a dairy farm in Paraná, Brazil, just became the first livestock collateral formally registered on the country’s stock exchange. The deal—backed by blockchain-tracked animals wearing AI-powered sensor collars—is a real-world test of whether…

Companies that strategically hold Bitcoin and Ethereum are now trading at a discount to their net asset value (NAV), according to a new analysis from 10X Research. The research firm suggests this undervaluation could present a fresh opportunity for investors, drawing a parallel to the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) discount seen in late 2022. Understanding the NAV Discount 10X Research compared the current situation to December 2022, when GBTC traded at a 47% discount to its NAV. At that time, investors could effectively buy Bitcoin at under $10,000 per coin through the trust, a discount that vanished after its conversion…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has argued that the blockchain has the potential to become the foundational operating system for the entire globe. In a recent video broadcast, Hoskinson asserted Cardano’s ultimate mission is to solve a multi-trillion-dollar global trust crisis. Hoskinson has argued that the main problem plaguing modern society and global commerce is relying on centralized institutions. “The cost of establishing trust on a global basis is in the hundreds of billions for just the well-regulated financial markets,” Hoskinson explained. “The goal of our entire industry is to shrink or remove all of these third parties on a global…

The U.S. Senate’s Digital Asset Market Clarity Act draft is still open to changes on a number of big-ticket items that include its government-ethics section, Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the lead negotiators on the bill, said about the effort that’s “finally” getting closer to passage with the release of the text. The Senate’s Judiciary, Ethics and Intelligence Committees all had input into the bill, Lummis told CoinDesk on Wednesday, and while the process has “been very difficult,” the bill is ready for additional feedback. “It’s time to show everyone the fully integrated bill that we will be voting on,…

Institutional crypto trading platform Talos has integrated with Kalshi, allowing select clients to trade the prediction market operator’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals through the same infrastructure they already use for digital assets, eliminating the need for a separate connection. Talos will offer algorithmic order types including Iceberg, TWAP and POV, along with multi-leg execution for perp-to-perp and perp-to-spot spread trades. The company said institutional clients will also be able to execute block trades in Kalshi contracts through its request-for-quote platform using participating over-the-counter liquidity providers. Later this year, Talos plans to extend its dealer software to brokers and trading…