Author: NBTC

The memecoin market has changed dramatically over the past year. Earlier cycles were driven largely by community momentum and viral attention, but investors are now placing greater importance on utility and ecosystem development. That shift has left several established meme coins fighting to regain momentum while newer projects introduce broader use cases. Shiba Inu ($SHIB) remains one of the sector’s biggest names, but its recovery has been slower than many holders expected. At the same time, MemeToro ($MT) is building an AI-powered ecosystem before exchange listings, leading some investors to view it as one of the breakout memecoin candidates heading…

Galaxy Research has said the SEC’s proposed Reg Crypto framework could give hundreds of existing tokens a formal route out of investment contract status. Galaxy Research, in an Aug. 21 analysis, said the proposal could replace years of uncertainty over when an investment contract tied to a token ends with a filing and a recorded date. Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of firmwide research, said the first visible effect could be the resolution of securities-law questions surrounding tokens already in circulation, rather than a fresh wave of public token sales. The SEC estimated that about 475 issuers would file transition reports…

Zama has listed its native $ZAMA token on Revolut across the European Economic Area, giving the privacy-focused blockchain project access to a fintech platform serving more than 70 million customers. Zama said on Monday that the listing also puts $ZAMA in front of more than 15 million Revolut customers who already use the app to trade cryptocurrencies, while allowing existing users to purchase the token without opening another account or completing additional identity checks. JUST IN:Zama will launch a Learn & Earn campaign inside @Revolut later this year, teaching millions why confidentiality onchain matters for mass adoption.$ZAMA is now live…

CME Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults at a CFTC roundtable over whether prediction markets are legitimate financial infrastructure or carnival games. The confrontation is the public face of a deeper regulatory battle between federal and state authorities, incumbent exchanges and startups, and two incompatible visions of what derivatives markets should look like. The CFTC roundtable on prediction markets was supposed to be a policy discussion. It became a fight. Terry Duffy, the chairman of CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange, sat across from Luana Lopes Lara, the co-founder of Kalshi, a prediction market…

Payments platform Decta will use $USDC to settle its own funds internationally, bringing stablecoins into its back-end treasury operations. Decta said Tuesday that it will use OpenPayd, a financial infrastructure company, to convert company funds into $USDC for international settlement, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “This is a proprietary treasury use case rather than a customer-facing payments flow,” Lux Thiagarajah, chief commercial officer at OpenPayd, told Cointelegraph. “Decta transfers its own funds into OpenPayd’s regulated infrastructure, where they are converted into $USDC via OpenPayd’s over-the-counter capabilities to support international operational settlements,” he added. The integration shows how stablecoins…

South Korea’s Shinhan Asset Management signed a four-party memorandum on Aug. 21 to test a Korean won tokenized fund using the Solana blockchain. The agreement brings together Shinhan Asset Management, the Solana Foundation, tokenization platform Etherfuse and decentralized exchange Orca. The participants will conduct a proof of concept covering the fund’s issuance and distribution process. The planned product would invest in short term Korean won bonds and target overseas institutional investors. However, the participants have not announced the fund’s size, expected yield or public launch date. Shinhan will test the complete tokenized fund process The proof of concept will examine…

The third quarter of 2026 is shaping up to be one of the busiest periods for crypto presales in recent years. Instead of chasing short-lived hype, investors are increasingly comparing projects based on utility, development progress, and the problems they aim to solve after launch. AI, Layer-2 scaling, payments, and blockchain infrastructure have become the dominant themes as capital continues rotating into early-stage opportunities. Among the projects attracting the most attention are MemeToro ($MT), Bitcoin Hyper, Little Pepe, Remittix, and Maxi Doge. Although all five remain in their presale phases, each targets a completely different segment of the crypto market.…

South Korea has advanced a three-part digital-finance program covering crypto accounts for about 3,500 companies, legal recognition for tokenized securities, and deposit-token trials involving nine banks. FACTBLOCK CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park said South Korea’s crypto market is moving away from its long reliance on retail trading as financial institutions focus on custody, tokenization, stablecoins, settlement systems and regulatory compliance. The change covers three connected areas of financial activity. Corporate investors are preparing to enter the crypto market under Financial Services Commission rules, securities firms are building systems for tokenized assets, and the Bank of Korea is…

Coinbase has launched more than 170 derivatives contracts for professional investors in the UK, offering perpetuals with up to 50x leverage alongside dated futures and crypto options. In a statement shared with crypto.news on Tuesday, Coinbase said eligible professional clients will progressively gain access to contracts covering cryptocurrencies, commodities, equities and foreign exchange over the coming weeks and months. Perpetual futures will make up the largest part of the new offering, with more than 170 supported assets and 24/7 trading. Investors will be able to take long or short positions, use the contracts for delta-neutral hedges and trade with leverage…

A wallet that had sat completely untouched for seven months suddenly came alive on August 3, moving its entire balance of 16,400 $BTC — worth roughly $1.04 billion — to a brand-new address. This kind of large Bitcoin transaction always grabs attention, not because of the transfer itself, but because of what usually happens next: does the money sit quietly, or does it end up on an exchange order book? Key takeaways A dormant wallet moved 16,400 $BTC, worth about $1.04 billion, on August 3 after seven months of inactivity. The sum equals roughly 0.0781% of Bitcoin’s total 21 million…