Author: NBTC

The demand for this bullish exposure suggests some investors expect the ongoing choppy price action in $BTC to end with a decisive move toward $70,000. Perhaps, they expect the CPI to come in softer-than-expected, lifting risk assets higher. Economists currently expect the July report to show headline CPI rising 0.1% month-over-month and 3.4% year-over-year. Core CPI, which strips out food and energy, is forecast to rise 0.2% month-over-month and 2.5% year-over-year, according to consensus estimates from Reuters, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg surveys. Other traders are less focused on direction and more interested in a jump in volatility. “We reiterate our…

Circle Internet Group said on Aug. 5 that its Coinbase $USDC agreement had renewed on existing terms, keeping the stablecoin at the center of the U.S. exchange’s products. Circle confirmed the renewal during its second quarter 2026 earnings call. The agreement’s initial term began in August 2023. Circle’s collaboration agreement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission provides for automatic three year renewals when both companies continue meeting their contractual obligations. The latest renewal therefore extends the arrangement into 2029. Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Fox Geen also said Circle had no plan to introduce quarterly dividends. Management intends to retain…

Blockchain governance rarely makes headlines — but zkSync just gave the crypto community something worth reading carefully. On July 22, 2026, zkSync published its $ZK B2 Transparency Filing, a public document covering the project’s governance structure and token details in a level of depth that few altcoin teams have attempted. The zkSync transparency filing is now live and accessible to anyone, signaling a deliberate shift toward openness at a time when governance opacity remains a persistent problem across decentralized networks. Key takeaways zkSync released the $ZK B2 Transparency Filing on July 22, 2026, covering governance and token structure in detail.…

Two major banking trade groups are warning that new stablecoin rules could leave real gaps in how money laundering and sanctions risks get policed, right as multiple federal agencies race through overlapping rulemaking deadlines. What the Bank Groups Are Saying The Bank Policy Institute and The Clearing House Association filed a comment letter on August 4 responding to the FDIC’s proposed Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and sanctions compliance rule for stablecoin issuers. They broadly support the FDIC’s approach, including requirements that issuers meet the same customer ID and sanctions standards already set by FinCEN and the Treasury. Their real concern…

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has announced the addition of $CAP to its Korean Won (KRW), Bitcoin ($BTC), and Tether ($USDT) trading pairs. The listing is scheduled to go live at 5:00 a.m. UTC on August 6, according to an official notice from the exchange. What is $CAP and Why Does It Matter? $CAP is a digital asset that has been gaining attention in the crypto community, though its specific use case and underlying technology are still being evaluated by market participants. The token’s listing on Upbit, one of the largest exchanges in South Korea by trading volume, provides a…

BRICS Payment Push Puts $XRP Ledger’s Cross-Border Use Case in Focus BRICS is exploring ways to connect national fast-payment systems and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border trade. More notably, this does not mean the bloc has chosen $XRP. But it does highlight a challenge the $XRP Ledger was built to address when it comes to moving value efficiently between different currencies and payment networks. According to RippleXity, BRICS is considering greater interoperability between national payment systems and CBDCs. If that effort moves forward, connecting currencies such as the digital yuan, digital rupee, digital real and digital dirham could…

Metaplanet, a Japanese company that places Bitcoin at the center of its institutional treasury strategy, has transferred a significant amount of $BTC. According to information reported by the on-chain data analytics platform Lookonchain, the company sent a total of 3,881 Bitcoin to external wallets in the last three hours. The total value of the transferred assets is estimated to be approximately $247.3 million. This move stands out as a noteworthy action for Metaplanet in terms of Bitcoin asset management. The purpose of the transfers to external wallets has not yet been officially explained by the company. Therefore, it remains unclear…

The market has handed Strategy a reprieve. STRC shares rebounded roughly 30% from their recent trough, a move that owes less to old-fashioned bitcoin maximalism and more to a deliberate shift toward balance-sheet prudence. The catalyst? A series of bitcoin sales that built a $4 billion cash reserve and a concurrent $975 million repurchase program, according to the original report. The recovery also coincided with a period of relative calm in the bitcoin price, giving the stock a tailwind that was absent during the volatility that punished leveraged corporate treasuries earlier in the cycle. The numbers are blunt. Four billion…

AIP-146 lets anyone who controls enough staked $APT push transactions with up to 100 times the network’s normal gas limits, and on balance it reads as good news for the token: it gives the biggest players in DeFi a practical reason to stake $APT beyond yield alone. This is not a distant roadmap item either. The proposal has been accepted, an onchain governance vote to enable it passed with near-unanimous support, and Aptos Labs (@AptosLabs) began promoting the upgrade this week. What Is AIP-146? Every Aptos transaction currently runs under the same execution and I/O gas limits. That works for…

A coalition of 25 Democratic-led states has launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s latest tariff policy, opening another chapter in the ongoing dispute over the president’s trade powers. Filed Monday in the U.S. Court of International Trade, the lawsuit argues that the administration exceeded its legal authority by introducing new double-digit tariffs on 60 trading partners. The case arrives after earlier tariff measures were struck down by the Supreme Court, making the action another watched test of the administration’s trade strategy. The outcome is also being monitored by Bitcoin investors, who are assessing how different legal outcomes could…