Author: NBTC

Ethereum has announced the emergence of a new prediction market that emphasizes decentralization and ethical practices. This development, highlighted by commentator Vitalik Buterin, showcases the ongoing evolution within Ethereum’s ecosystem. The introduction of this market could foster innovative applications and push the boundaries of economic primitives on the Ethereum platform. What Happened Ethereum’s market landscape is evolving with the introduction of a new decentralized prediction market, as noted by influential commentator Vitalik Buterin. This platform aims to prioritize ethical considerations while exploring meaningful economic applications. The announcement comes amid a backdrop of mixed signals in the broader crypto market, where…

Fidelity International has quietly made one of the more telling moves in the gold market this year: according to Bloomberg Markets, the asset manager has doubled its Fidelity gold holdings as concerns mount over where the Federal Reserve is steering monetary policy next. The timing is hard to ignore. Bullion is trading near multi-month highs, and the decision by one of the world’s largest money managers to lean harder into gold says as much about institutional nerves as it does about the metal itself. Key takeaways Fidelity International has doubled its gold holdings, according to Bloomberg Markets, amid growing uncertainty…

The Transfers, in Order Last week, onchain sleuths reported that a $TRUMP team address had moved out 11.25 million tokens, worth $26 million, on Sept. 7, and that 3.25 million (of that amount) had already landed on OKX. On Sept. 21, it added another 2.75 million, bringing its two-day total to 6 million $TRUMP, or $12.59 million. Here is the sequence, pulled from the chain: Sept. 18: The distribution wallet splits tokens into two intermediate wallets. Within hours, 3.25 million $TRUMP moves on to OKX-linked deposit addresses in a string of transfers. Sept. 20: A fresh 2.75 million $TRUMP goes…

Staff for Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, are circulating arguments against the latest ethics compromise included in the revised crypto bill. The pushback comes despite Senate Republicans making major concessions, Warren attacks latest compromise According to Punchbowl News reporter Brendan Pedersen, Warren’s Banking Committee staff argues that the new enforcement powers granted to state attorneys general are largely illusory. New state-level enforcement mechanism falls short of providing a genuinely independent means of enforcing the restrictions, according to the staff. Among other things, they argue that restrictions on issuing or sponsoring digital assets would generally…

Sending money home from abroad still comes with a hidden tax on the world’s poorest workers: an average fee of 6.49% on every $200 transfer and a wait of three to five business days before the cash actually lands. A new report from the Solana Foundation argues that stablecoins are already dismantling that old model, and the evidence isn’t theoretical anymore — banks, fintechs and legacy money transfer giants are shipping products built on this idea right now. The shift toward stablecoin remittances is no longer a pitch deck concept; it’s showing up in wallets, cards and lending facilities across…

weETH by ether_fi has exceeded $4 billion in deposits on Aave V3, a significant milestone for the platform. This achievement, highlighted by a tweet from Aave, emphasizes the growing interest in decentralized finance (DeFi). As the market evolves, such developments could attract more participants and liquidity to DeFi ecosystems. The Key Development Traders scanning the order books got a surprise when weETH, a product of ether_fi, crossed the $4 billion deposits mark on Aave V3. This notable achievement could reflect rising confidence in decentralized finance, especially given the mixed signals currently present in the broader crypto market. While the immediate…

Four Orders in Eight Minutes The trade surfaced through onchain analyst ai_9684xtpa, who described the buyer as an ICO-era whale re-entering the market after half a year away. The wallet, 0xBE42…0c5F, placed four sell orders for stablecoins on Cow Swap, a decentralized exchange aggregator that batches trades, and every one of them filled: 10,049,997.50 DAI for 3,591.36 $ETH 4,493,614.20 USDS for 1,611.18 $ETH 7,055,997.28 $USDC for 2,527.90 $ETH 2,125,834.46 USDT for 762.36 $ETH That is $23.73 million for 8,492.8 $ETH, an average of about $2,794 per coin. Moreover, onchain records show the stablecoins left the wallet between 15:29 and 15:37…

Banks and financial regulators from Europe, the Middle East and Asia joined a cross regional pilot testing post quantum security for digital asset wallets and blockchain transfers on Aug. 24. The Responsible Fintech Institute convened the project with digital asset custody infrastructure provider Safeheron as its technology partner, according to the official announcement. Bison Bank and DK Bank will test wallet creation and onchain transfers in a shared application environment. Abu Dhabi Global Market, Bhutan’s Gelephu Financial Services Office and the Malta Financial Services Authority will initially participate as observers. The pilot does not mean that quantum computers can presently…

The Zcash Foundation has said that it has nothing to do with ZRC-20 or the $CASH token that is being promoted as the first tokens on the privacy chain. The rebuttal came as a reply to a BSCN post on X. The Foundation wrote, “We have no prior knowledge of ‘ZRC-20’ or the $CASH token,” adding that it is “a private project, not an official Zcash token standard or protocol feature.” The Foundation warned the public to research before touching it. BSCN had posted a piece with the headline “Zcash Has Tokens Now” on September 20. Although it put a…

As the U.S. Senate is poised to vote Tuesday on whether to embrace or abandon the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, one of the leading Republican negotiators, Senator Cynthia Lummis, said that Democrats are still asking for more changes even after Republicans circulated what they said was a final compromise proposal over the weekend. “The Democrats want more,” she said at a Washington event on Monday. “They always want more. If we waited another month, they would want more.” “There’s no end to it,” the Wyoming Republican lamented. In an appearance at a Washington summit hosted by the Solana Policy…