Author: NBTC

Global accounting rule-makers seem finally ready to give crypto and digital assets the attention they deserve. The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), has shared plans that could involve addressing cryptocurrency and digital assets as part of its broader efforts to update existing accounting frameworks in 2026. The Financial Accounting Standards Board is also gearing up for a similar move, hinting at a future where crypto and digital assets become even more integrated into TradFi in the US. What are the IASB’s plans for crypto in 2026? The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is yet to make a definitive commitment to…

India will start sharing and receiving cross-border crypto transactions in April 2027. The country will align its crypto regulations with the global reporting framework in a bid to catch up with tax evasion, especially through international cryptocurrency exchanges. India Aligns Its Crypto Rules With Global Framework According to Indian officials, the country will align itself with the set international reporting rules from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) through the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). As such, India will align its crypto rules with the global standards, which will help counter potential tax loopholes. The officials have already started…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has revealed a new AI assistant called QVAC. He shared a short demo on his X. He shows the tool running entirely on a local device. The assistant created and assigned tasks in Asana using simple natural language commands. Ardoino said the system uses “100% local inference and reasoning.” The demo ran on a laptop with a below average GPU. That detail caught attention, because most AI tools rely on powerful cloud servers. Tether also plans to open-source the assistant soon. The reveal shows the company expanding beyond stablecoins. It now appears to be building privacy…

The UK Treasury has selected HSBC Holdings, Europe’s largest bank by assets, and Ashurst, a prominent international law firm, to lead a pilot program for digital gilt, a move that could make the UK the first G7 country to issue sovereign bonds directly on a blockchain. The pilot will take place in the Bank of England’s digital sandbox, providing a regulated environment to test tokenized government securities. Digital gilts are government bonds issued as digital tokens on distributed ledger systems. The project will leverage HSBC’s Orion platform to issue, manage, and settle the pilot bonds, known as DIGIT, while Ashurst…

One of the most significant architectural updates in Ethereum’s history is being quietly prepared. Though recent talks have mostly concentrated on fees and scaling, a more profound shift in the potential validation of Ethereum blocks is now beginning to take shape. From developers and regular users to home validators and lone stakers, this shift may have an impact on the entire ecosystem. Currently, in the consensus-specs features branch, EIP-8025 is at the heart of this change and is anticipated to be formally proposed for inclusion. Introducing zero-knowledge proofs Instead of reexecuting each transaction themselves, Ethereum validators can now use cryptographic…

China’s digital currency program has completed its first cross-border consumer payment using the digital yuan in Laos. China is attempting to spread the use of its digital yuan through fast and easy consumer transactions. Has the digital yuan debuted internationally? In late December 2025, through the joint efforts of the People’s Bank of China and the Bank of Laos, the Bank of China’s Vientiane branch connected to the PBOC’s cross-border digital payment platform and processed merchant QR payments in Laos. The system works through QR code scanning technology. Chinese tourists can make payments in Laos without exchanging foreign currency by…

The Rosen Law Firm, a US-based securities class action firm, has initiated an investigation into potential securities claims linked to the major exploit that rocked Balancer on November 3, 2925. Rosen has alleged that Balancer may have issued materially misleading business information to the public and its investors prior to the incident. Rosen encourages Balancer investors to reach out The law firm claims in a recent announcement that it is investigating potential securities claims on behalf of investors and has urged those who purchased Balancer cryptocurrency to reach out, as they may be entitled to compensation without payment of any…

According to XRPWallets, citing Whale Alert, 127.4 million $XRP — worth $172.5 million — was recently transferred from a Coinbase-linked wallet to Bitstamp. At first glance, it seems like the usual $XRP shuffle between exchanges, but there is an uncommon detail with the receiving wallet that has been monitored since late 2024 and is suspected of being tied to Ripple’s liquidity operations. Ripple connection: Why this “unknown” wallet matters Yes, Ripple exited its minority stake in Bitstamp during the 2025 sale to Robinhood, but the exchange remains a key node for the company’s cross-border payments business. Moreover, it is still…

The escalating conflict in Iran is unlikely to significantly disrupt the global Bitcoin mining network, industry analysts and operators said, countering circulating rumours on social media platforms suggesting a disastrous hit to hashrate and a flood of Bitcoin sell-offs. “I don’t think it’s of any major concern for Bitcoin,” Wolfie Zhao, head of research at TheMinerMag, told Decrypt, dismissing suggestions that conflict-related power outages in Iran would materially affect the network. While individual miners could see disruptions, the scale is not comparable to past global shocks like the 2021 crackdown on mining in China, Zhao added. The remarks come amid…

Humanity Protocol, a blockchain identity infrastructure firm, has integrated with Fireblocks, an institutional digital asset infrastructure entity. The partnership marks a key effort to unveil institutional-level treasury and custody access to Humanity Protocol’s Mainnet. As Humanity Protocol revealed in its official press release, the development permits over 2,400 firms leveraging the infrastructure of Fireblocks to securely hold, interact with, and manage $H as well as other Humanity Protocol-native assets. Thus, while the digital asset ecosystems are grappling with bots, identity manipulation, and deepfakes, this development shows the rising demand for verifiable on-chain trust. Institutional #trust is officially on-chain🤝Humanity Protocol is…