Author: NBTC

The anomalous performance of Dogecoin ($DOGE) by May 2026 has finally received fundamental confirmation. According to fresh on-chain data from Santiment, the largest $DOGE holders have now shifted into a phase of strategic accumulation, recording a historical high in the volume of assets held. At the moment, a group of the 149 largest addresses, each holding more than 100 million $DOGE, has accumulated 108.52 billion coins, which in monetary terms amounts to approximately $11.6 billion. In the last 24 hours alone, Santiment data recorded 739 transactions exceeding $100,000 each. Why Dogecoin’s top 149 wallets are loading up $DOGE now If…

Ripple Prime has joined the CME Group’s newly launched 24/7 cryptocurrency futures and options marketplace as a day-one clearing and financing partner. The CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, expanded its trading hours for crypto derivatives on May 29. The expansion makes it possible to have continuous market access. During the first weekend of 24/7 operations, the CME reported over 7,200 contracts traded. These contracts logged approximately $50 million in notional value. This rather impressive liquidity was achieved due to the participation of both retail and institutional market participants. Ripple’s clearing infrastructure CME needs proper infrastructure for processing trades…

IC3 researchers published a 155-page survey on June 8 examining how artificial intelligence and crypto can support each other. The study says meaningful integration remains early and calls for stronger evidence behind claims that blockchain can make AI agents autonomous, identify generated content, or remove model bias. The paper does not dismiss crypto. It says zero-knowledge proofs, trusted computing, and blockchains can secure AI systems, preserve records, and support machine payments. Yet the researchers argue that these tools address narrower problems than many industry claims suggest. Crypto wallets automate AI agents without creating autonomy “AI systems do not become more…

$BTC’s slide toward $76,000 pushed bitcoin sentiment into bearish territory, according to Santiment. The firm said retail pessimism hit its weakest level in nearly four weeks, a setup it views as supportive for a potential rebound. Key Takeaways: Santiment said rising bearish bitcoin sentiment historically signals stronger rebound potential for $BTC. Retail traders pushed $BTC commentary into a “FUD Zone” as prices hovered near $76,000. Social platform data showed bearish sentiment rising as rebound odds improved. Bitcoin Sentiment Ratio Turns Bearish After $BTC Slide Bitcoin traded near $77,000 around 5:36 p.m. after briefly dipping toward $76,000 on May 18, triggering…

The total value locked (TVL) on DeFi fell from $172 billion to $148 billion as the sector logged $635 million in exploit losses across April alone. Coinbase Ventures bought Ethena’s $ENA token on the open market, Janus Henderson took its own strategic $ENA position, and Morpho closed a $175 million round structured entirely around the $MORPHO token. Apollo separately secured rights to acquire up to 90 million $MORPHO tokens over 48 months. The bet these investors are making is that governance tokens attached to DeFi protocols with real institutional distribution will rerate as financial infrastructure, and that the security panic…

Ethereum has been underperforming since the start of the week, losing 17% of its value over the last seven days. The decline comes amid a massive selloff in the broader cryptocurrency market. Ethereum has lost the $1,700 level, with the bears now targeting the $1,500 psychological level in the near term. However, the weekly chart is extremely bearish, with the liquidity magnet around the $1,380 zone. While it remains to be seen if Ethereum will drop to this April 2025 low, the technical indicators suggest that the bears are very much in control. Bitmine’s Tom Lee remains optimistic, predicts $ETH…

Strip out the AI darlings from the S&P 500, and the index barely moved over the past two years. With them, it more than doubled. From May 2024 to June 2026, the S&P 500 posted a 142% gain. Remove the AI stocks, and that number collapses to 16%. The gap between those two figures tells you everything about where the market’s real engine lives, and how narrow that engine has become. A 45% concentration that should worry you AI stocks now account for 45% of the S&P 500’s total market capitalization. That’s an all-time high for any single thematic cluster…

Amid the absence of fundamental narratives around Shiba Inu ($SHIB), the community’s attention has shifted from charts to capital flows, with particular focus on the legendary address holding 16% of $SHIB supply, after which new large players have begun to emerge on-chain, adding nervousness to the market. According to Arkham, another large holder, this time “0x9896…1098”, transferred 17.958 billion $SHIB to Binance, which is about $114,000. What makes this transaction interesting is that the volume was received by the wallet exactly two weeks ago. The holder did not maintain the coins for long, but redirected them to the exchange almost…

CME Group has turned on around-the-clock trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options, opening the regulated derivatives markets through the weekend for the first time. The change took effect on Friday, May 29, and lets clients trade the contracts at any hour, any day, on the CME Globex platform. The shift ends a long-standing quirk of regulated crypto derivatives, which until now shut down on weekends and outside set daily hours even as the underlying tokens kept trading nonstop. Over the opening weekend, more than 7,200 crypto futures and options contracts traded, worth roughly $50 million in notional value, CME…

ZIGChain integrates Ondo Finance to bring tokenized US stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) onchain, according to information shared with Finbold on Monday, June 8, 2026 ZIGChain, a Layer 1 blockchain built to bring investment products onchain for institutions and everyday users, has announced an integration with Ondo Finance to bring tokenized US stocks and ETFs to users across ZIGChain’s ecosystem. Ondo Finance pioneered the tokenization of institutional-grade real-world assets, and the integration extends onchain exposure to publicly traded US securities to a new generation of users across the GCC and beyond. The integration deepens ZIGChain’s real-world asset stack alongside Valdora…