Author: NBTC

In 2025, digital asset treasuries (DATs) broke into the mainstream, as publicly traded companies increasingly began treating cryptocurrencies as core balance-sheet assets, rather than just speculative or experimental. The model, originally adopted by Michael Saylor’s Strategy in 2020, involves publicly traded companies, usually with non-crypto-related businesses, accumulating and holding cryptocurrency as a primary corporate treasury asset. This gives holders of the DAT company’s stock at least indirect exposure to cryptocurrency prices, without directly holding any crypto. Strategy remains the largest player in the DAT sector in terms of the dollar value of its crypto holdings, with over $62 billion in…

Paxful Holdings, which pleaded guilty last year to accusations from U.S. authorities that it had fostered illegal prostitution, violated money-laundering laws and knowingly handled criminal proceeds, was sentenced to pay a $4 million penalty, much reduced because of the business’ current ability to pay. The peer-to-peer bitcoin BTC$67,188.84 marketplace that had been popular in Africa shut down in 2023, but Paxful had processed as much as $3 billion in crypto trades from 2017 to 2019, according to U.S. authorities, including transactions for customer Backpage, an advertising platform for illicit sex work. “This sentence sends a clear message: companies that turn…

SBI Holdings moves to acquire Singapore crypto exchange Coinhako in a major Asia expansion play. The deal positions SBI deeper into regulated crypto markets and digital asset infrastructure. Tokenized assets and stablecoins sit at the center of this strategic push. SBI Holdings, one of Japan’s largest financial groups, has announced plans to acquire a majority stake in Coinhako, a leading cryptocurrency platform in Singapore. The deal signals SBI’s aggressive push to expand its digital asset footprint across Asia. SBI will carry out the acquisition through its subsidiary SBI Ventures Asset Pte. Ltd. The deal involves both capital injection and buying…

In a move that underscores its push into data-driven logistics, FedEx hedera collaboration is being framed as a strategic step toward smarter, more transparent global trade. FedEx joins Hedera Council to shape digital supply chain standards Hedera technology and enterprise-grade trust layer FedEx role and objectives within Hedera Council Executive statements on digital supply chain transformation Governance, node operations and council structure About FedEx Corp. About Hedera Council FedEx joins Hedera Council to shape digital supply chain standards On February 13, 2026, FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) announced it is joining the Hedera Council, the governance body behind the public Hedera…

The European Union is finalizing a new package of sanctions aimed at closing loopholes that officials say have allowed Russia to use cryptocurrency to circumvent existing restrictions. The EU is seeking to “ban all cryptocurrency transactions with Russia” as part of the upcoming 20th sanctions package, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Unlike previous efforts targeting Russia-linked entities spun out of already sanctioned platforms, the newly proposed measures are broader and are designed to close Russia’s crypto loophole entirely. “Any further listing of individual crypto asset service providers […] is therefore likely to result in the set-up of new ones to circumvent…

The Web3-native business modular payments platform, Pulsar Money, has greatly enhanced its content verification workflow by integrating Teneo Protocol. According to the company, the processing speed of one of the key functions of the company increased by 50 times, which is a large improvement in its on-chain payment infrastructure. API limits were slowing Pulsar Money down.Burst workloads. Manual checks. Bottlenecks.After integrating Teneo Protocol, their content verification workflow ran 50× faster.Read how they did it 👉 https://t.co/E6YMlwycYG pic.twitter.com/byYvaTLzP9 — Teneo Protocol (@teneo_protocol) February 12, 2026 The upgrade will focus on the automation of the process of verifying posts posted by users…

The Bank of England has taken a critical step toward integrating blockchain. According to an update shared by the CEO of Quant Network, Gilbert Verdian, the bank has invited Quant to testrun an idea inside a sandbox operated by the financial institution. The goal is to test a treasury automation idea involving atomic multibank cash movement. Quant proposes multibank treasury automation model Notably, the goal of this “test” is to enable the Bank of England to perform synchronization for its future upgrades to the U.K.’s real-time payment system (RTGS). The bank’s synchronization lab serves as a simulation environment with no…

ENI, a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for hyper-scale commercial adoption, today announced a strategic partnership with Ink Finance, a multichain financial governance protocol that provides all-in-one treasury management solutions for DAOs to address their complex financial operations. With this collaboration, Ink Finance seeks to unlock new opportunities for DAOs operating on its decentralized ecosystem by offering seamless, scalable, and cross-chain asset access, management, and utility across DeFi. Ink Finance operates as a one-stop multichain financial governance platform serving the needs of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). Launched in 2020 and operating its protocol on the Avalanche C-Chain platform, Ink empowers DAOs…

Institutions are choosing Ethereum as their preferred blockchain infrastructure. ETF approvals and tokenization are reshaping Ethereum’s institutional narrative. Private blockchain experiments fell short and Ethereum filled the gap. Milana Valmont, Co-founder of Valmont Group, a digital asset and market structure advisory firm, argued in a recent post that Ethereum’s biggest shift happened while most of crypto was busy watching its price fall. According to Valmont, while traders spent years comparing ETH to faster chains and calling it dead, Ethereum moved in a different direction. Away from speculation and toward infrastructure. Why Private Blockchains Failed and Ethereum Won Valmont noted that…

MarketVector Indexes has launched two new benchmarks focused on stablecoin and real-world asset tokenization (RWA) infrastructure, alongside the debut of two exchange-traded funds from US issuer Amplify ETFs designed to track the indexes. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the MarketVector Stablecoin Technology Index and the MarketVector Tokenization Technology Index are designed to give investors regulated exposure to companies and digital asset products involved in stablecoin issuance, payments and settlement, as well as platforms supporting tokenized RWAs. The company also announced the launch of two funds from Amplify ETFs tied to the new benchmarks. The Amplify Tokenization Technology ETF (TKNQ) tracks the…