Author: NBTC

Ripple built its identity on replacing SWIFT, the bank-messaging network that moves roughly $150 trillion a year, with $XRP as the bridge that would kill slow correspondent banking. A decade on, the banks kept SWIFT, adopted Ripple as a fast lane beside it, and the disruptor is learning to integrate. What that pivot means for $XRP is the real question. For most of its existence, Ripple defined itself by a single enemy: SWIFT, the global messaging network that connects roughly 11,000 banks and underpins the movement of something like $150 trillion a year. Ripple’s founding pitch was that SWIFT was…

Japan is moving ahead with a major regulatory reform that would transfer crypto assets from the Payment Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, or FIEA. According to XWIN Research Japan, the shift reflects a broader market reality: cryptocurrencies are increasingly being treated as investment assets rather than payment instruments. The firm also explained how the proposed changes could affect the DeFi sector. XWIN Research noted that after the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, institutional ownership expanded rapidly, helping bring Bitcoin into traditional asset management. Under Japan’s proposed framework, crypto assets would be classified…

Baton Corporation, the UK-headquartered development company behind Pump.fun, is recruiting a Chief Legal Officer at a base salary of $1M to $5M, co-founder Alon Cohen posted Wednesday on X. A $1M base floor for a CLO is well above the median for senior in-house legal executives at most crypto firms; the $5M ceiling rivals packages at major US investment banks. Per the job posting, the hire will lead regulatory engagement, respond to agency inquiries, and represent the company in proceedings alongside outside counsel. The job posting describes Pump.fun as processing “$300M+ daily volume” and says the platform generated “more than…

GitHub has been the home to Bitcoin Core and many other software projects in the Bitcoin industry for over a decade, but it was not the first collaborative version control platform to host the digital currency’s code, and it may not be the last. Recent performance issues in GitHub have triggered a new wave of criticisms of the platform, reviving old concerns and dissatisfactions with its design and reliability. Matt Corallo, one of the longest-acting Bitcoin core contributors, took to X recently to announce the decision to migrate off the platform, not Bitcoin core’s code base yet, but the Rust…

Nasdaq-listed Sharplink (SBET), a company pursuing an aggressive Ethereum acquisition strategy, has announced that its cumulative staking rewards have reached 22,102 $ETH. The milestone, shared via the company’s official X account, follows the addition of 509 $ETH in staking rewards earned over the past week. At current market rates, the total staking rewards are valued at approximately $37.02 million. Sharplink’s Ethereum Accumulation and Staking Strategy Sharplink’s approach centers on acquiring and staking Ethereum to generate yield while building a substantial digital asset reserve. As of June 16, the company reported holding a total of 875,776 $ETH. The staking rewards program…

For a region already deep into election-season jitters, Brazil just sent a blunt reminder: crypto and campaign coffers don’t mix. The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) publicly reiterated that political parties and candidates remain barred from accepting cryptocurrency donations, a prohibition that has been on the books since 2019. The notice, highlighted in the original report from Livecoins, isn’t a new policy—it’s a line drawn years ago that needed no fresh legislation but clearly required restating. The MPF tied its warning to a core friction point: campaign finance laws demand full traceability of every real, while the pseudonymous architecture of most…

Uniswap has added a no-code token auction tool to the Uniswap Web App, letting any team configure and launch an onchain token sale from a browser without writing code. The tool runs on Uniswap’s Continuous Clearing Auction mechanism, which conducts price discovery entirely onchain. In a CCA, bids accumulate across multiple blocks, each clearing at the same price that carries forward from the previous one. Bidders set a total budget and a maximum price per token. As blocks clear, participants receive tokens if their price is competitive, and everyone pays the same final clearing price. Because the auction distributes across…

Volatility Grips Bitcoin After Fresh YTD Low After plummeting to a fresh year-to-date (YTD) low of $58,035 Thursday morning, bitcoin rebounded to erase its 24-hour losses. While the flat net performance paints a stable picture, the daily chart tells a different story—revealing violent price swings that triggered the moment bitcoin crossed below $59,000 on Wednesday. Data shows bitcoin breached $61,000 less than three hours after tumbling to what was then its YTD low. Although it subsequently dropped below this level, the cryptocurrency traded close to it until shortly after midnight, when another rally eventually pushed it past $61,800. While it…

Ethereum is faceing increasing competition from rival blockchain ecosystems while simultaneously trying to capitalize on growing institutional demand for stablecoins, tokenized assets and onchain financial infrastructure. Yet while critics framed the week’s developments as a warning sign, some of the industry’s most influential voices argued precisely the opposite. To the optimists, the launch of EthLabs and the foundation’s downsizing are not signs of an ecosystem in retreat. Instead, they represent Ethereum’s transition into a more mature and institutionally decentralized network. “We are at the edge of something remarkable for Ethereum,” said Joseph Chalom, the CEO of SharpLink, one of the…

Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based institutional investment firm GMO, made the comments during a wide-ranging interview on Steven Bartlett’s Youtube series “The Diary of a CEO.” The interview notes that the statements are the opinions of Grantham and are “not the opinions of GMO.” He drew on six decades of market experience and a career that included managing up to $165 billion in assets at peak. The AI Bubble and What Comes Next Grantham placed AI alongside the railroads and the internet as one of the defining ideas of the last two centuries. That distinction, he argued, is exactly what…