Author: NBTC

On a single day this June, roughly 42,000 new tokens flooded onto the Solana blockchain in just 24 hours — a figure that would have seemed implausible two years ago. The engine behind much of that surge is Pump.fun Solana token launches, the no-code token launchpad that has changed how crypto assets are created, traded, and, more often than not, abandoned. The scale is worth pausing on. That works out to nearly one new token every two seconds, running around the clock. Meanwhile, this was not a one-day spike. Pump.fun Solana token launches have been moving at that pace for…

BitMEX has recorded $84 million in $BTC futures volume as reported by Ki Young Ju on July 23, 2026. This figure represents 0.08% of the total market, highlighting BitMEX’s ongoing influence in the crypto trading landscape. You can view the full tweet here. The Latest data from BitMEX reveals a notable $84 million in $BTC futures volume for the previous day. While this figure may appear modest, it underscores BitMEX’s continuing role in shaping market dynamics. The broader crypto market is currently exhibiting mixed signals, leaving traders to scrutinize platforms like BitMEX for insights into institutional interest and trading behavior.…

Something unusual happened in the Bitcoin mining sector this summer: companies built to process cryptocurrency transactions started signing some of the largest AI infrastructure contracts in the industry. The wave of Bitcoin mining AI deals recorded through July has quietly redrawn the investment map for a sector many had written off as a one-trick play on crypto prices. Key takeaways Bernstein’s deal tracker recorded more than 7.5 gigawatts of AI-related Bitcoin mining contracts by July, equivalent to $150 billion in multi-year commitments. Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease for its AI data center campus; IREN disclosed $2.8 billion…

Blockchain analytics firm Onchain Lens reported that 500 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $30.76 million, was deposited into U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase roughly 40 minutes ago. The funds are linked to Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins and had remained dormant for about 10 years before the transaction. Background on the Wallet and Its History The wallet associated with Collins still holds 4,500 $BTC, worth an estimated $277.17 million at current market prices. Deposits to centralized exchanges are generally interpreted by market analysts as a precursor to selling, though the exact intent behind this transfer has not been confirmed. Collins, a Dublin…

Uniswap ($UNI), one of the largest and longest-running decentralized exchanges, is making a deeper push into tokenized assets, introducing a feature designed to let regulated securities trade on the venue without sacrificing compliance requirements. The decentralized exchange’s developer, Uniswap Labs, is rolling out “Permissioned Pools” on Thursday, a piece of infrastructure that allows issuers of tokenized funds, equities and other regulated assets to restrict trading to approved investors while still using the protocol’s automated market maker. That “gives issuers a flexible way to enforce their own compliance rules without building separate trading infrastructure,” Ken Ng, head of ecosystem at Uniswap…

Benjamin Cowen, a well-known analyst in the cryptocurrency market, evaluated the current state of Ethereum (ETH) and the possible scenarios it could follow for the remainder of the year in his new analysis video. Cowen, noting historical cycles and macroeconomic data for Ethereum, which is trading around $1,900, warned investors that a new “window of weakness” could open in August and September following the temporary relief seen in July. Cowen noted that, given the “midterm election years” in the US political and economic cycles, July has historically been a positive month for cryptocurrency markets. However, looking at data from previous…

Jefferies, one of Wall Street’s more established investment banks, just put a number on what many in the crypto industry have been whispering about for years. The bank projects that public listings of crypto and blockchain-related companies could collectively reach a $1 trillion market by 2031. The forecast emerged from the bank’s inaugural Digital Assets Investor Conference, held on May 27 in New York. Around 150 institutional investors and executives from 35 digital asset firms gathered for the event. The thesis: tokenization and stablecoins are doing the heavy lifting The core thesis rests on two pillars: the tokenization of real-world…

Polkadot 2.0 replaces the old two-year slot auction model with Agile Coretime, a flexible system that lets developers buy network compute time on a monthly basis or even block by block. This change went live in September 2024 and was finalized with the release of Polkadot SDK version 2509 in October 2025, completing the three-pillar Polkadot 2.0 upgrade alongside Asynchronous Backing and Elastic Scaling. For developers, the practical difference is significant: launching a parachain no longer requires locking up large amounts of $DOT for years at a time. You pay for what you use, when you need it. What Was…

BitMEX’s utility token lost almost all of its value after the exchange announced Thursday it would wind down operations. The BitMEX (BMEX) token plunged 90% to as low as $0.002 from $0.06, according to CoinGecko data. It traded at $0.0063 at the time of writing. The token, which had traded near $0.06 in recent weeks, began falling at around 7:00 am UTC, roughly an hour before BitMEX announced the shutdown on X. Source: CoinGecko BitMEX announced the closure after its share of the Bitcoin futures market fell to about 0.08%, with roughly $84 million in daily Bitcoin futures trading volume,…

Fred Thiel, CEO of MARA, one of the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, appeared on journalist Natalie Brunell’s Coin Stories program and made noteworthy comments about cryptocurrency mining, the future of Bitcoin, and strategies for moving towards artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. One of the most critical topics highlighted in the interview was the process of Bitcoin miners shifting their energy infrastructure to AI data centers. Thiel stated that AI data centers generate significantly higher revenue per unit of electricity consumed compared to Bitcoin mining. Thiel stated that MARA has over 4 gigawatts (GW) of energy capacity and…