Author: NBTC

A new category of blockchain launched into the mainstream in 2026: networks built for one job, moving digital dollars, with stablecoins as the native currency and no volatile gas token anywhere in the design. Here is how stablechains like Tempo, Arc, Plasma, and Stable work, why Stripe and Circle are building them, and what they change for anyone who uses stablecoins. Every major blockchain until recently was built the same way: a general-purpose computer with its own volatile token at the center, where anyone wanting to do anything, including something as mundane as sending ten digital dollars to another country,…

Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, has suffered yet another extremely brutal price correction. That said, Bitcoin advocate Samson Mow has made it abundantly clear that he remains unbothered by the recent market sell-off. This is a rare glimpse of optimism amid extremely negative sentiment. “The market is sleeping on this” Mow is confident that Bitcoin’s fundamentals have not changed despite the severe price crash. He views BTC as a “neutral, permissionless, bearer money.” He added that Bitcoin remains the best hope for the future, and that “hyperbitcoinization is inevitable because continued fiat money printing is an absolute certainty.” Furthermore, according to…

Artificial intelligence agents that have autonomous access to crypto wallets could become unstoppable if deployed maliciously or escape from sandboxes, experts from a leading academic research consortium warned. “Unstoppable Autonomous Agents” (UAAs) pose a clear threat if they are deployed to persist automatically and have access to digital assets, according to a June 8 industry review written by 25 academics and experts from top US universities for the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3). “When combined systematically, crypto tools can channel AI’s fluid power into secure, reliable, and highly autonomous systems,” the researchers wrote. However, this combination could have “far-reaching…

Cardano has reached a major milestone en route to the Dijkstra era with the van Rossem hard fork initiation governance action submitted on the mainnet. van Rossem, an intra-era hard fork, introduces some new features and lays the foundation for the next major era, Dijkstra, which will ultimately bring Leios to the Cardano mainnet. A hard fork is one of the most visible and celebrated moments in Cardano development, but rarely is it the work of a single team or a single decision. By the time a hard fork reaches Mainnet, it represents months of intense testing, coordination, trials and…

SWIFT’s 10-Minute Payment Milestone Sparks Fresh Debate Over $XRP’s Settlement Advantage SWIFT has reached a significant milestone in cross-border payments, announcing that 75% of transactions on its network now reach beneficiary banks within 10 minutes, exceeding the G20’s target for faster international payments. The global financial messaging network stressed that speed alone does not define the customer experience. While payment instructions now move faster than ever, SWIFT acknowledged that delays can still occur at the beginning and end of the payment journey. To address these issues, it is developing a market-wide payments framework with harmonized rules to make cross-border transactions…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has inked a deal with the Stellar Development Foundation to expand the use of blockchain-based payments across its development programs, marking a significant step toward integrating public blockchain infrastructure into humanitarian and development work. This agreement comes on the heels of pilot projects in five countries, highlighting the potential for blockchain to play a more visible role in aid distribution and economic development efforts. Pilots pave the way for broader implementation On Monday, UNDP announced that over the past 16 months it has conducted research and pilot studies in Haiti, Syria, Kenya, Guatemala, and…

The old saying – sell in May and go away – proved to be right once again for the cryptocurrency markets. It was just six weeks ago when bitcoin had evidently reclaimed the $80,000 level and even surged to a multi-month peak at almost $83,000. The sentiment was gradually improving and there were even calls for $100,000 by the summer. However, the tides turned viciously and the asset was rejected vigorously. Its decline since then has been nothing short of painful, dumping below $60,000 earlier today for the second time in June. Is This Why? Popular analyst Ali Martinez brought…

Silicon Valley’s AI boom is creating demand for a different type of paid companionship. Some technology workers are spending as much as $23,000 per day for escorts who can discuss artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, biohacking, and startup culture. Forbes reported that the service extends beyond sex. Clients are also paying for attention, informed conversation, and time with someone who understands the technical subjects shaping their work and wealth. Tech Workers Seek Nerd-First Companionship Meida Marek, an online pseudonym, moved into escorting after working in an entry-level finance position. Her interests in AI, cryptocurrency, and biohacking later became part of the service…

eToro’s strategic investment in Extended, an onchain perpetual futures exchange, signals something more than a typical venture bet — it maps out a concrete path toward bringing decentralized derivatives to mainstream retail investors through the Zengo self-custody wallet. Key takeaways eToro has become a strategic investor in Extended, an onchain perpetual futures exchange built on Starknet, with the round reported by CoinDesk at $12.5 million. The investment launches a partnership between Extended and Zengo, the self-custody wallet eToro acquired earlier this year for approximately $70 million. Extended supports more than 100 perpetual markets across crypto, equities, FX, and commodities, and…

Tether, the company behind $USDT, is preparing to issue the stablecoin natively on Bitcoin through the RGB protocol version v0.11.1. Deployed by the UTEXO software lab, $USDT is set return to the chain where it first launched in 2014 via the Omni-Mastercoin Layer. UTEXO, the company leading the commercial rollout, has positioned itself as the issuer and distributor of this Bitcoin-native $USDT in partnership with Tether. “Finally, after eight years of development—if not more—we are the company that is launching $USDT over Bitcoin with strong support from Tether,” said Viktor Ihnatiuk, UTEXO co-founder, in an exclusive interview with Bitcoin Magazine.…