Author: NBTC

Robinhood just landed its most unusual client yet: the US government. The US Department of the Treasury selected Robinhood Markets to serve as the brokerage and initial trustee for “Trump Accounts,” a new federal investment program designed to get American children investing before they can drive. The company will build the technology infrastructure, handle customer support, and develop educational resources for an initiative that could eventually touch millions of households. How the program works Children born between 2025 and 2028 are eligible for a $1,000 seed contribution from the US Treasury, deposited into a dedicated investment account. Family members and…

Blockchain data reveals that wallets linked to the Velvet Capital team and its market maker, DWF Labs, have transferred large volumes of $VELVET tokens to centralized exchanges, coinciding with a dramatic tenfold price increase. The moves have raised questions about potential insider selling and market manipulation. Token Transfers and Price Action According to on-chain analyst EmberCN, an address associated with the Velvet Capital project team transferred 22 million $VELVET tokens, worth approximately $19.8 million, to exchanges including Bitget, Gate.io, and KuCoin over the past three days. This activity followed a surge in the token’s price from $0.09 to $0.90, a…

Tiger Research and Bitwise CIO are now calling the bear market bottom after Bitcoin’s price rebound into July. Bitcoin briefly climbed to a daily high of $62,200 on Binance Thursday afternoon. It now hovers around $61,400, putting a 2.49% gain in the day and 3.08% gain over the last seven days. Tiger Research analysts issued a comment Thursday saying they are “becoming more constructive on Bitcoin from a cycle perspective,” adding that Bitcoin has likely entered the final leg of the current bear market. “Our view is not that the exact bottom is already in, but that Bitcoin has likely…

Ethereum ($ETH) has gained 8.8% in a week as momentum strengthened. BlackRock’s ETHA helped drive fresh spot ETF inflows. $2,000 remains Ethereum’s next major resistance level. Ethereum has extended its latest recovery, climbing above the $1,900 level and putting the $2,000 mark back into focus. The recovery comes after several weeks of improving price action, renewed institutional interest, and technical signals that suggest bulls have regained control in the short term. At press time, $ETH was trading at $1,942.56, up 4.2% over the last 24 hours. The cryptocurrency is up 8.8% over the past seven days, 9.7% over the last…

A trending on-chain whale, Evaded, has made some strange moves that have left the market watchers confused. In fresh moves, it liquidated his short positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum and went straight long on Microsoft and Oracle. It is going bullish on these stocks with $31.5 million long bets. The whale has been a major metric for on-chain analysts and its competing whales. This move comes in when $BTC and $ETH have been posting back-to-back losses. Bitcoin price has dropped by around 4% in the last 30 days, while Ether price dipped by more than 11%. Evaded makes $1.77M, then…

Chiliz has introduced a World Cup campaign that will remove up to 10% of treasury-held Fan Tokens per match victory as participating national teams progress through the tournament. According to a June 11 press release shared with crypto.news, the new initiative, called “Burn to Glory,” ties Fan Token supply reductions directly to results achieved by selected national football teams during the upcoming FIFA World Cup. The program covers Fan Tokens linked to Argentina ($ARG), Belgium ($BELG), Portugal ($POR), South Africa ($SAFA), and Scotland ($SFA). Under the mechanism, tokens held in treasury reserves will be permanently destroyed after each tournament win,…

On Wednesday, DTCC completed its first live production trades involving tokenized securities, marking a major step toward bringing blockchain technology into traditional financial markets. Broadridge’s findings suggest those efforts are influencing the broader industry. Sixty-eight percent of respondents said tokenization will at least partially reshape financial markets within the next three to five years, while nearly one-third plan to increase investment in tokenization projects by 26% to 50% or more over the next two years. The survey also found firms are not preparing for an all-onchain future. Instead, 92% expect digital and traditional assets to coexist for the foreseeable future,…

In 2011, $2.7 billion of inflows sent Bitcoin up more than 55,000%. This cycle, $697 billion produced 689%. A leading analyst says the math has changed so much that the next parabolic run needs a trillion dollars. Here is the case, and the case against. Bitcoin just posted the worst month in the history of its exchange-traded funds, bounced modestly into July, and is trading more than 50% below its October 2025 record. Into that gloom, one of the most-watched analysts in crypto dropped a statistic that reframes the entire debate about where Bitcoin goes next. On July 1, CryptoQuant…

Ethereum price has climbed nearly 2% to $1,942 after a rebound in semiconductor stocks and hopes for renewed US-Iran talks restored demand for risk assets. The move took Ethereum ($ETH) price to an intraday high of $1,953 on Tuesday, extending its recovery from a July 18 low near $1,830. Market sentiment improved as Asian technology shares recovered from their recent AI-driven selloff, with South Korea’s Kospi gaining 3.6%, Japan’s Nikkei rising 3%, and Taiwan’s Taiex adding 4.2%, according to the Associated Press. Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Taiwan Semiconductor led the rebound after chip stocks suffered heavy losses in the…

Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has proposed allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property as collateral for bank loans. The proposal is part of the draft revised Law on Support for SMEs, which is open for public consultation, according to Viet Nam News. The plan would widen the type of assets that businesses can use when applying for bank loans. Under the draft, SMEs could use assets formed in the future, property rights, intellectual property rights, intangible assets, digital assets, virtual assets and other lawful assets. The change would move lending beyond the current…