Author: NBTC

For most of its life, crypto lived outside the financial system. If you wanted to move dollars in or out of an exchange, that money still had to pass through a regular bank somewhere along the way. Most people assumed it would stay that way until Washington finally decided how to regulate it. But that assumption is now breaking down. In March 2026, a regional Federal Reserve bank approved a limited account for Kraken, the first time a crypto exchange has ever been allowed to plug directly into the US central bank’s payment system. More approvals could follow, and the…

Poland’s parliament has once again failed to overturn a presidential veto blocking a key crypto regulation bill, extending the political standoff over how the country should oversee digital assets. In a vote held Friday, lawmakers fell short of the 263 votes required to override the veto issued by President Karol Nawrocki, local outlet TVP World reported. A total of 243 MPs voted against the veto, while 191 supported it, per the report. The bill, backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, aims to align Poland with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), introduced in 2024 to govern the issuance…

AI hallucinations news moved from courtroom embarrassment to career consequence as the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled to suspend Omaha attorney Greg Lake until further notice, after a court brief he submitted in a divorce appeal contained 57 defective citations out of 63, including 20 fully fabricated case references and four completely invented cases that do not exist in any jurisdiction. AI hallucinations news has produced its most severe professional sanction in the United States to date as the Nebraska Supreme Court handed down an indefinite suspension of attorney Greg Lake on April 15, after months of proceedings that began when…

AI hallucinations news moved from courtroom embarrassment to career consequence as the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled to suspend Omaha attorney Greg Lake until further notice, after a court brief he submitted in a divorce appeal contained 57 defective citations out of 63, including 20 fully fabricated case references and four completely invented cases that do not exist in any jurisdiction. AI hallucinations news has produced its most severe professional sanction in the United States to date as the Nebraska Supreme Court handed down an indefinite suspension of attorney Greg Lake on April 15, after months of proceedings that began when…

Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director 2026 on Thursday, tapping a former Navy rear admiral and deputy surgeon general from his first term to lead an agency that has cycled through four leaders in the past 12 months and remains without a Senate-confirmed director since Dr. Susan Monarez was fired last August. The CDC director 2026 nomination arrives at one of the most unstable stretches in the agency’s modern history. The CDC has had no Senate-confirmed permanent director for all but about four weeks of Trump’s second term. Monarez was confirmed in July 2025 and fired just weeks…

HashKey Chain, a prominent blockchain infrastructure entity, has partnered with HabitTrade, a RWA tokenization platform. The partnership aims to expand RWA adoption with the use of blockchain infrastructure. As per HashKey Chain’s official social media announcement, the development is poised to enable compliant and institutional-scale access to diverse tokenized financial tools. As included in this move, both entities are attempting to connect decentralized finance networks and conventional capital markets. 📢 Official AnnouncementHashKey Chain × HabitTrade @HabitTrade 🤝We are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership to accelerate compliance-friendly RWA adoption on-chain.🔥 Key Highlights:• HabitTrade’s open-source Stove Protocol @stoveprotocol — the open,…

Supreme Court news broke Friday as sources close to both justices confirmed to CBS News that neither Justice Samuel Alito nor Justice Clarence Thomas plans to retire this year, ending months of speculation that Trump might be able to lock in a fourth Supreme Court appointment before the November midterms. Supreme Court news that both Alito and Thomas will remain on the bench removes the single biggest potential variable from the 2026 political calendar. A vacancy would have triggered a confirmation battle before a Senate that is already managing a compressed schedule and a hostile midterm environment. Republican leaders would…

Sports streaming platform DAZN will integrate $ADI Predictstreet – FIFA’s first-ever official prediction market partner and a blockchain-backed forecasting platform licensed in Gibraltar – directly into its livestreams ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the companies announced Monday from Zurich. Key Takeaways: A Controversial Sprint From Gibraltar License to DAZN Deal Prediction and betting components are going to be significantly more woven into the fabric of the FIFA World Cup product this year with rapidly forming partnerships like this recently announced deal. Under this partnership, $ADI Predictstreet will be embedded before, during, and after live events on DAZN, enabling…

Ethereum, the world’s largest smart contract blockchain, just printed its busiest quarter ever, and the token’s price hasn’t budged. The network processed 200.4 million transactions on its base layer in Q1 2026, marking the first time it has crossed that threshold in a single quarter, according to Artemis data. Quarterly transaction count bottomed near 90 million in 2023, then spent most of 2024 grinding sideways between 100 million and 120 million. The Ethereum smart contract blockchain is a decentralized system that can automatically execute agreements without the need for a bank, lawyer, or middleman. Transactions on Ethereum are records of…

Washington isn’t trying to solve every crypto policy fight at once, but it appears to be carving out a workable path for one specific category of digital asset: the regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoin. The $GENIUS Act established the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, and a bipartisan House tax discussion draft now proposes friendlier tax treatment for those same tokens when people actually use them. Together, the two efforts point toward a deliberate, stablecoins-first lane in American crypto policy that could reshape how users, merchants, and issuers interact with digital dollars in the years ahead. What the stablecoin tax draft…