Author: NBTC

The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the launch of Pontes, a tokenized finance project, in the third quarter of this year. The initiative, revealed by ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone, aims to connect distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms used in financial markets with TARGET Services, the Eurosystem’s existing payment infrastructure. The core objective is to enable DLT-based financial transactions to be settled in tokenized central bank money, rather than relying on commercial bank deposits or stablecoins. Bridging DLT and Traditional Settlement Pontes represents a significant step in the ECB’s exploration of how blockchain technology can be integrated with…

India’s Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman, believes the country needs to maintain an investor-friendly tax policy by avoiding taxes that deter investment, enterprise, and innovation. Sitharaman stated this while speaking at the 8th International Tax Conference on September 16 in Bengaluru. The Minister noted that investor-friendly tax policies will encourage enterprise, while simplifying compliance and reducing litigation. Her message comes amid new levies on securities transactions and capital gains, creating a gap between policy intent and how investors may perceive the tax environment. India’s Remarkable Fiscal Growth India’s GDP recorded an impressive 7.8% growth year-on-year during the April-June quarter of…

BMLL has added Kalshi’s historical order book data to the datasets it sells to hedge funds, the London-based data provider said today (Thursday). It maps the prediction market records onto the schema it uses for CME Group’s event contracts, so one model can run on both. That matters for funds testing trades around Federal Reserve rate decisions, CPI releases or GDP prints, which BMLL named as examples. Kalshi said in May that its institutional trading volume rose 800% over the prior six months. Kalshi gave that figure when it raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation to build institutional…

Bitcoin’s recent volatility has surged, reflecting a renewed uncertainty surrounding Federal Reserve policy. As highlighted by @KaikoData, the 30-day rolling volatility for Bitcoin spiked after the August Jackson Hole speech, eased, and then climbed again into September. This situation suggests that traders should closely monitor future Fed communications for clearer guidance on interest rates, impacting market sentiment. Inside the Move The broader crypto market indicates mixed signals, with various assets experiencing different momentum shifts. As Bitcoin grapples with climbing volatility, reduced forward guidance from the Federal Reserve adds an element of unpredictability. This uncertainty is particularly relevant for traders engaged…

Rob Nichols says the American Bankers Association wants to strengthen the Clarity Act, not kill it, and that the fix is a handful of word changes in a 600-page bill. I take him at his word on intent. But the changes are not small, and the premise behind them has been tested against seven years of data and did not survive. The ABA’s case rests on a prediction: let platforms pay stablecoin rewards and deposits will drain out of community banks, taking local lending with them. That has been testable for years, because current law already permits these rewards, and…

Solana raised the maximum computation allowed per block from 60 million to 100 million compute units on July 29, a 66.7% jump that gives unrelated transactions more room without changing the separate cap governing its busiest accounts. Compute units, or CUs, measure computational work performed by transactions. The block limit caps the aggregate CUs a leader can include before the block is full. The on-chain feature account identifies SIMD-0286 as active at slot 435,888,000, at the start of epoch 1009, while the activation block timestamps that slot to July 29. The change raised the block limit by 66.7% mathematically, which…

OG.com has received authorization from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer single-stock futures in the US. Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of crypto.com, made the announcement its sister futures exchange in a Thursday X post that received regulatory approval to list single-stock futures in the US. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has acknowledged OG.com’s 1-N filing, authorizing the platform to offer single-stock futures in the US, . Marszalek said they are working with the securities regulator and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer single-stock perps that combine the “innovations of the digital asset…

Whale Alert has confirmed a substantial transfer of 787 $BTC from OKEX to an unknown wallet, valued at approximately $59.9 million. This transfer could be indicative of heightened market activity, prompting traders to stay vigilant. The implications of such transfers are often significant, as they can influence market sentiment and trading strategies. For more details, check the full report here. The Latest The crypto market has been experiencing mixed signals recently, but the transfer of 787 $BTC from OKEX could be a key indicator of forthcoming volatility. Whale Alert’s tweet highlights this notable transaction, which may prompt traders to reassess…

The symposium theme is “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.” Warsh divested a dozen blockchain positions before taking office. He appointed Marc Andreessen to co lead the Fed’s AI task force. Friday’s speech could move crypto markets on policy content alone. Every Fed chair gets one first Jackson Hole speech. It sets the tone for their tenure, signals their priorities, and reveals how they think about the economy’s most pressing structural questions. Kevin Warsh’s first keynote arrives at a moment when the stablecoin market exceeds $230 billion, when tokenized deposits are settling real transactions on public blockchains, and when…

A leveraged Dogecoin ETF is a fund that aims to deliver a multiple, usually double, of Dogecoin’s daily price move by holding derivatives instead of the coin itself, and it resets that exposure every single trading day. This structure exists across several cryptocurrencies now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and $XRP, but for Dogecoin specifically, only one such fund currently trades in the US. Because these funds rebalance daily rather than tracking the underlying asset over weeks or months, their longer-term returns can look very different from simply doubling the coin’s price chart. What Is a Leveraged Dogecoin ETF? The category…