Author: NBTC

The time is running out for the CLARITY Act before the Senate takes its recess on August 7, and the impact of this delay is being felt differently in the crypto space. Major firms are managing to raise funds, but smaller companies, DeFi projects, and community banks are still expecting the appropriate regulations, which, it seems, will come up only in 2027. That disparity became clear this week when Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest increased its stake in Coinbase and Circle Internet, according to Investor’s Business Daily, whereas Senate Majority Leader John Thune said nothing except that he was looking for…

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are moving beyond traditional token trading as Uniswap launches pools.trade on Robinhood Chain. Meanwhile, Bankr and Sushi are exploring a partnership to challenge Uniswap’s dominant ecosystem position. Uniswap’s launch of pools.trade on Robinhood Chain and rising interactions between Bankr and Sushi mark a shift in decentralized finance. Decentralized exchanges are no longer just competing on the basis of swaps and liquidity depth. Platforms are now developing native token launchpads to attract projects, creators, and users. How Launchpads Could Become a Key Competitive Advantage for DEXs Native launchpads are gradually emerging as a major competitive advantage because whoever…

Strategy CEO Phong Le has explained the company’s recent pause in Bitcoin purchases. Le stated that the current policy stems not from the $BTC price, but from the company’s goal of increasing its dollar reserves. According to notifications to regulatory bodies, Strategy recently sold over 1,600 Bitcoins for a total of over $108 million. The average price per Bitcoin in the sale was approximately $64,200. This transaction marked the second consecutive week that the company sold Bitcoin. Strategy also hasn’t made any new $BTC purchases in seven weeks. Speaking to Fox Business, Le revealed that the company holds 840,000 $BTC…

The Federal Reserve left interest rates untouched on July 29, 2026, holding its target range at 3.50% to 3.75%, yet the ripple effects moved through mortgage markets and crypto trading desks almost immediately. Understanding the Federal Reserve bitcoin impact has become a running preoccupation for traders this summer, especially as Chair Kevin Warsh signaled the central bank might soon meet less often — a shift that could stretch the gaps between rate decisions and, by extension, the windows in which Bitcoin absorbs macro shocks. Key takeaways The Fed held its benchmark rate at 3.50% to 3.75% on July 29, 2026,…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson made a statement following the security incident in the Midnight ecosystem that led to a sharp drop in the price of the $NIGHT token. Hoskinson stated that the attack did not affect the Midnight protocol or the $NIGHT smart contract on Cardano, but rather the problem occurred in the third-party bridge infrastructure. Hoskinson stated, “Midnight itself wasn’t hacked. $NIGHT’s smart contract on Cardano wasn’t hacked. What was hacked was the third-party bridge.” Hoskinson stated that initial findings indicate the incident is entirely limited to the Wanchain infrastructure, noting that the system has four core components—on-chain and…

Revolut has spent much of the past year collecting banking licenses instead of just polishing its banking app — and the reason behind that push is becoming clearer. In February, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority picked Revolut for the stablecoins cohort of its regulatory sandbox, one of only four firms chosen from twenty applicants. That selection puts Revolut stablecoin issuance on a concrete regulatory track for the first time, and it signals that Europe’s most valuable private fintech wants to stop renting the pipes that move its customers’ money and start owning them outright. Key takeaways The FCA selected Revolut…

Nikita Bier announced on Wednesday that he is stepping down as X’s head of product. After a little more than a year, in his own words: “time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster.” He stays on as an adviser. Crypto circles have been treating his exit as a turning point since yesterday. That overstates it — Bier was not the crypto lead at X. The timing is interesting all the same, for one concrete reason: he leaves a few weeks after X launched its payments product, and the question of whether cryptocurrencies will…

Tether-backed Bitcoin-focused company Twenty One Capital has reported a $413.5 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026 after Bitcoin’s decline reduced the value of its holdings. Bitcoin losses have dominated Twenty One Capital’s results According to Twenty One Capital’s second-quarter financial report, a $401.5 million decline in the value of its Bitcoin holdings accounted for most of the company’s quarterly loss. Twenty One Capital’s latest loss has shown how strongly its financial statements depend on Bitcoin’s price at the end of each reporting period. Because the company holds the cryptocurrency as its main asset, changes in Bitcoin’s fair…

An Ethereum staking proposal would lower the native-yield baseline underpinning SharpLink’s strategy to make its corporate $ETH treasury more productive, increasing its reliance on variable and higher-risk sources of return. EIP-8363 would progressively burn a larger share of consensus rewards as the amount of staked $ETH rises. At 60.25 million $ETH, the model reaches a burn factor of 1 and net consensus yield falls to zero. The proposal describes that threshold as 49.5% of its modeled supply, so “50% staked” is useful shorthand, not an exact permanent ratio. The Ethereum staking proposal is an active candidate for Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade,…

Western Union launched Stablecard across 37 markets on August 4, putting its USDPT stablecoin on Solana into the hands of consumers through a Visa card. The 173 year old remittance giant is betting that 380,000 cash-out locations will beat crypto-native competitors at their own game, but the math says it is automating the destruction of its own margin. Western Union filed its stablecoin strategy in a single press release on May 4. Three months later, Stablecard went live across 37 markets, the Digital Asset Network connected external crypto wallets to 380,000 agent locations, and the company’s Q2 earnings showed digital…