Author: NBTC

In a groundbreaking move to power a scalable DeFi network and offer better user crypto trading experiences, Bullbit, a decentralized perpetual exchange, today entered into a strategic partnership with GamePad, a Web3 infrastructure platform. This crucial collaboration allowed Bullbit to integrate GamePad’s Web3 smart execution and runtime infrastructure to provide its decentralized perpetual exchange with a reliable execution environment that boosts performance and scalability. Bullbit is a recognized decentralized perpetual exchange that merges the operation and functionality of CEXs (centralized exchanges) with DeFi transparency, all driven by AI agents. Its perpetual futures DEX (decentralized exchange), built on the Base blockchain,…

An anonymous cryptocurrency whale has moved 9,000 Ether ($ETH), valued at approximately $17.86 million, to the Bitfinex exchange after holding the assets for five years. The transaction, flagged by blockchain tracking firm Onchain Lens, suggests the investor may be preparing to take profits following a long-term holding period. Background of the Transaction The wallet address, identified as starting with 0x2E8e9, originally purchased 10,000 $ETH from the decentralized exchange Uniswap for $4.63 million five years ago. Shortly after that acquisition, the funds were withdrawn from the exchange and held in self-custody. According to onchain records, a portion of the original holding…

Data from May 15th on spot cryptocurrency ETFs traded in the US revealed that investor interest remained largely focused on Bitcoin, while exit pressure continued on Ethereum funds. According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $131 million yesterday, while Ethereum spot ETFs experienced a net outflow for the fourth consecutive trading day. On the Bitcoin side, the strongest performance of the day was exhibited by BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, one of the world’s largest asset management companies. The fund topped the list by attracting a net inflow of $144 million in a single…

SPACEX, a popular perpetual futures contract (perp) on the Hyperliquid leveraged crypto exchange that is loosely connected to the valuation of Elon Musk’s rocket company, lost nearly half its value within 7 minutes yesterday, then recovered almost all of that loss 10 minutes later. Overnight, some crypto influencers tried to link the flash-crash to the Blue Origin New Glenn explosion that lit up Cape Canaveral later that night. The timing, however, did not align. The SpaceX market on Hyperliquid is deployed by Ventuals, a pre-IPO perpetuals protocol. Perps are allegedly priced at one billionth of the valuation of the private…

The Bank of England just published a report that reads like a love letter to oracle networks, and Chainlink is the main character. The DLT Innovation Challenge 2025 Final Report, published on May 12 by the Bank of England and the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, examines how distributed ledger technology could reshape wholesale payments and settlement. Among the most significant takeaways: oracles, the middleware that feeds real-world data into blockchain systems, are not just helpful. They’re foundational. What the report actually found The challenge selected nine firms to stress-test DLT’s potential in core financial infrastructure. Chainlink and Aave Labs…

Vault infrastructure provider Veda is making its vaults available to the developer teams building on Privy, the wallet infrastructure company Stripe acquired last June, the two companies said Tuesday. The announcement was made at Proof of Talk 2026 at the Louvre Palace in Paris. Until now, Veda’s vaults reached the market through one-off institutional integrations. Kraken used them to launch Kraken DeFi Earn, and EtherFi used them to build its Liquid product. Each of those took dedicated engineering and months of coordination, the kind of commitment most companies cannot justify. The Privy integration turns that into a standard API call.…

Ethereum is not moving through a dramatic narrative phase right now. There is no single catalyst driving attention the way DeFi summer or NFT cycles once did. Instead, interest is returning in a quieter way – through observation of network behaviour rather than headline events. Traders and analysts are once again paying attention to what is happening on-chain, particularly when it comes to how Ethereum is being used during different liquidity conditions. Not in theory, but in measurable activity. Search interest, such as top Ethereum casino also shows wider trends in Ethereum casino gambling across online markets. It adds another…

US President Donald Trump and his family are notable for their support and affinity for cryptocurrencies. They have their own altcoins and DeFi project, while also actively investing in other cryptocurrencies. While Donald Trump already possesses a diverse crypto portfolio, he has added new assets to it. Financial disclosure documents from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) reveal that President Trump purchased shares in Bitcoin (BTC) mining company MARA Holdings (MARA) in the first quarter of 2026 (January-March). The value of the purchase ranges from $15,001 to $50,000. MARA shares closed at $13.29 on May 14th, up 4.24% from…

COTI solved Yao’s ‘Millionaires Problem’ on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet using Garbled Circuits with no trusted intermediaries. The solution was developed with Soda Labs, is live on mainnet, and is compatible with the EVM environment and Solidity. Vitalik Buterin had publicly identified Garbled Circuits as the path toward purely cryptographic guarantees in multiparty computation. COTI solved Yao’s ‘Millionaires Problem’ on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet using Garbled Circuits, with no trusted intermediaries and end-to-end encryption. The demonstration was published this week. It is the first practical solution to this foundational challenge of secure multiparty computation —known as MPC— on Ethereum’s public infrastructure. The…

Hyperliquid launched HIP-4 outcome contracts on Trust Wallet, making it the first major wallet to integrate them. Contracts are priced between $0 and $1, with no leverage or liquidation risk, and maximum loss is limited to the position size. Trust Wallet charges no additional fees and Hyperliquid applies no fees on outcome markets at this time. Hyperliquid integrated its native HIP-4 outcome contracts into Trust Wallet, giving millions of users access to prediction markets directly from the app, with no additional accounts or identity verification required. This integration makes Trust Wallet the first large-scale wallet to offer this product. HIP-4…