Author: NBTC

Much like dormant bitcoin whales suddenly rising from decades of slumber, vintage ethereum has been escaping deep storage, with Genesis-era coins haunting these awakenings. “Genesis $ETH” generally refers to ether ($ETH), tracing back to Ethereum’s earliest days, particularly coins allocated when the Ethereum network launched its crowdsale on July 22, 2014. August Sees 2 Genesis $ETH Wallets So Far During Ethereum’s initial coin offering (ICO) in the summer of 2014, early buyers grabbed $ETH for a dirt-cheap $0.31 per coin. When this $ETH whale, spotted by Whale Alert on Tuesday, finally moved 2,680 coins, ether traded at $1,883.66 per unit,…

Investors who treat crypto as too speculative to touch tend to frame the decision as binary. The more practical framing concerns dosage and implementation: how much bitcoin a balanced portfolio can carry and under what rule it should be held. We tested this directly. Starting from a conventional 60/40 portfolio of global equities and core bonds, we introduced spot bitcoin at 2.5% and 10% weights with monthly rebalancing across January 2021 to March 2026. The headline results are intuitive. Adding bitcoin lifted returns and Sharpe ratios (a standard measure of return relative to risk) in strong crypto years, while the…

Cardano’s $ADA price is trading near $0.1702, up by 2.4% in the last 24 hours. This follows the news of the network activating its latest major upgrade. Moreover, the move highlights the key question for investors: can the Van Rossem hard fork turn Cardano’s technical progress into real adoption? Can it trigger a sustained $ADA recovery? Van Rossem Goes Live Through On-Chain Governance Cardano activated the Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, upgrading the network to Protocol Version 11. The transition was completed smoothly, with only a brief 10-minute block gap and no reported disruption to user funds. The…

Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on Tuesday, giving AI agents that run on its network a stablecoin balance and a human-readable name to present when they pay for APIs, content and MCP tools. The product gives Cloudflare the buy side of agent payments a month after it built the sell side. Its Monetization Gateway, announced July 1, lets sites charge agents per request in stablecoins over x402, the protocol that repurposes the HTTP 402 status code for payments. Wallets is the account those agents pay from. Both sides run through a network that spans 337 cities and, by the company’s count,…

Ethereum price rebounded from $1,850 to trade above $1,900 on Aug. 12 as softer U.S. inflation data supported risk appetite and buyers returned near a key support zone. Ethereum price action today According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price traded near $1,916 at the time of writing after moving between an intraday low of $1,880 and a high of $1,918, according to the Binance daily chart. Buyers stepped in after $ETH briefly revisited the $1,850 region on Aug. 11. The rebound carried the token back through $1,900, a level that had repeatedly limited recovery attempts during the previous week.…

Boerse Stuttgart Digital and institutional crypto trading firm Tradias have completed their merger after clearing the required ownership control procedure, creating a combined digital asset infrastructure unit with about 300 employees. The transaction was first announced in February, when the companies agreed to combine their regulated crypto businesses and expand their services for banks, brokers and other financial institutions across Europe. The merged business will operate under the Boerse Stuttgart Digital name, while Tradias will remain the brand for trading services, according to a Wednesday announcement. The unit will provide trading, custody, staking and tokenization services and will be headquartered…

The $XRP Ledger (XRPL) was designed differently from many blockchains because its primary goal was never to support speculation first. According to Aditya Turakhia, Vice President of Institutional Markets at Ripple, the network was built from the beginning for payments, financial institutions, and the fast movement of value. 1. Purpose-Built for Payments The founders designed XRPL specifically for payments and financial use cases. Instead of trying to become a general-purpose blockchain for every possible application, its architecture focused on one key requirement: moving value quickly, reliably, and cheaply. That design choice helped XRPL achieve settlement times of around 3–4 seconds,…

U.S. Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana has called on the Senate to hold an immediate vote on the CLARITY Act, a piece of legislation aimed at clarifying the regulatory framework for digital assets. During a recent statement, Kennedy emphasized that the Senate has spent years discussing cryptocurrency policy and that further delay would be unjustifiable. Background and Legislative Stalemate The CLARITY Act, formally known as the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, has been introduced in previous sessions but has not advanced to a full Senate vote. Kennedy’s remarks reflect growing frustration among some lawmakers who believe the…

MoonPay has expanded the scope of its annual SOC 2 Type 2 certification, adding Privacy as a new audit category and bringing three more products under independent review as the company continues growing beyond crypto on-ramps. The latest audit now covers Virtual Accounts, MoonPay Trade and MoonPay Commerce, extending the same security and privacy standards already applied to MoonPay’s core payments business. The company received a clean opinion, the highest outcome available under a SOC 2 Type 2 audit, confirming that its controls operated effectively throughout the review period. Why It Matters Unlike a SOC 2 Type 1 audit, which…

Bitcoin’s ledger is a chain of blocks, each one a batch of transactions added by miners, firms running warehouses of specialised computers that compete to produce the next one. They are paid in newly issued bitcoin plus the fees attached to those transactions, and a block arrives roughly every ten minutes. That ten-minute pace is not automatic. The network sets a difficulty level, which is how much computing work a miner must do to produce a valid block, and recalculates it every 2,016 blocks. If blocks have been arriving too fast, the work gets harder. Too slow, and it gets…