Author: NBTC

Bitcoin slipped below $75,000 for the second time in May, touching an intraday low near $74,200 as the market’s recovery from spring lows lost momentum again. The first break came on May 23, when spot ETF outflows and forced liquidations pulled $BTC to below $75,000. Then, amid a sell-off in Asian markets, Bitcoin has dipped to $73,600 as of press time, with a low of $72,600. Glassnode’s May 27 report frames both moves as symptoms of Bitcoin stabilizing above its deeper-cycle support, but the market’s $75,000-$78,000 band has become a bottleneck, with spot demand, ETF flows, and options positioning all…

Automated yield protocols built DeFi’s most persuasive retail pitch that depositing into a vault was all a user needed to do, with the protocol handling everything else. For users wanting exposure to Curve’s boosted yields without manually managing $CRV locks, vote power, wrappers, gauges, and incentives, Stake DAO offered a product that packaged the full stack behind a simple interface and, in doing so, also packaged what could break. According to Blockaid, an attacker minted over 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum through a suspected compromise of a deployer key and began swapping tokens for $ETH. The attacker altered LayerZero-related peer…

President Donald Trump-themed $TRUMP coin is dangling luxury suite tickets to the 2026 World Cup final in a bid to arrest its severe market collapse. The initiative, organized through the “$TRUMP Coin Club,” represents the latest attempt to inject liquidity and consumer interest into a digital asset that has lost roughly 97% of its value since January 2025. However, the promotional push comes alongside quiet adjustments to the project’s legal disclosures, which explicitly warn investors that affiliated insider entities may dump their own token holdings while the marketing campaign is underway. $TRUMP’s luxury incentive amid a market collapse According to…

A New York Bitcoin lawsuit is putting a strange and potentially important question before a court: can thousands of dormant self-custodied wallets be treated as abandoned property under state law? In papers filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, a plaintiff identified as Noah Doe is seeking legal ownership of 39,069 abandoned Bitcoin wallets after saying he spent more than a year trying to find their owners. The filing, dated May 1, 2026, turns what could have stayed a blockchain oddity into a real property-law fight. Doe says he discovered the wallets with a self-developed algorithm,…

Someone bought Malaysian food in Sydney and accidentally made history. On May 21, a customer at a takeaway restaurant completed what appears to be Australia’s first retail payment using an Australian dollar stablecoin, processed entirely on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 network. The transaction settled in seconds. No Visa. No Mastercard. No intermediary skimming a percentage off the top. Just a stablecoin called AUDD moving from buyer to seller on a blockchain, while the laksa was still hot. How the payment actually worked AUDD is issued by AUDC Pty Ltd, a company operating under Australian Financial Services License (AFSL) number 700123.…

Bitcoin (BTC) is down to around $73K amid ETF outflows and geopolitical tension. Over $2B in ETF outflows and $900M liquidations added selling pressure. The key support sits at $72,650 with RSI near oversold levels at 34.82. Bitcoin slipped below the $73,000 level as a combination of geopolitical escalation, heavy ETF redemptions, and large institutional sell pressure weighed on the market. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading around $73,235, after briefly touching an intraday low of $72,604 from a high of $74,490. The decline has extended a multi-week decline that has already erased more than 8% over the…

Aave Labs, the development team behind the decentralized finance protocol Aave (AAVE), has announced that its United Kingdom-based subsidiaries, Push Labs and Push Virtual Assets, have obtained registration as cryptoasset businesses from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This approval marks a significant step for the DeFi developer, enabling it to offer regulated cryptocurrency services and payment infrastructure within the UK market. What the FCA Registration Means for Aave Labs The FCA registration allows Push Labs and Push Virtual Assets to operate legally under the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) framework. This is a requirement for any firm…

BlackRock announced the official launch of “B-LEND” (BlackRock Ledger-based Enterprise Network for Debt) today, May 19, 2026. This isn’t just another experimental pilot; it is a fully integrated platform designed to issue, trade, and settle sovereign-grade tokenized debt on a private, permissioned version of the Ethereum network. By enabling real-time atomic settlement for U.S. Treasury bills, BlackRock is directly attacking the inefficiencies of the T+1 settlement cycle that currently plagues traditional banking. a paradigm shift for institutional capital The B-LEND platform represents a paradigm shift for institutional capital. By tokenizing government debt, BlackRock allows large-scale pension funds and insurance companies…

A new discussion around Flare Networks is drawing attention in the $XRP community. In a tweet, community figure Eri highlighted what she called one of the network’s biggest strengths: verifying activity on the $XRP Ledger and Bitcoin without revealing sensitive user data. Eri pointed to comments from Encrypted Finance, a project building a privacy-focused layer on Flare’s infrastructure. According to her, the system could support up to 48 private operations at the protocol level, including minting, swapping, lending, borrowing, staking, sealed auctions, and dark pool trading. Key Points Flare’s privacy layer could enable confidential $XRP Ledger and Bitcoin activity without…

The U.S. government is moving closer to a full federal framework for stablecoins. In its latest step, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) advanced a proposed rule. That requires FDIC supervised stablecoin issuers to comply with strict anti-money laundering and sanctions standards under the $GENIUS Act. $GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules AdvanceThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has advanced a proposed rule requiring federally supervised stablecoin issuers to comply with AML and sanctions regulations under the $GENIUS Act.The proposal would apply to FDIC supervised… pic.twitter.com/q7pEGNx66h — BSCN (@BSCNews) May 25, 2026 The proposal would require Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers (PPSIs) operating…