Author: NBTC

Bitcoin’s transparency was once considered one of its greatest strengths. Now, Ray Dalio says, it may be the very reason central banks won’t adopt it as a reserve asset, even though corporations and institutional investors have embraced it. The billionaire hedge fund manager, who is also a bitcoin investor, said on X that, “Bitcoin lacks privacy. Transactions can be monitored and potentially controlled, which is why central banks aren’t looking to hold it.” Ray Dalio has previously said he allocates about 1% of his portfolio to bitcoin. Bitcoin, the world’s largest blockchain network, operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer system built…

CoinGecko, a leading independent cryptocurrency data aggregator that tracks and analyzes market data across the blockchain industry, has unveiled the list of top 10 NFTs by trading volume for the last week. The degrading positions highlight the necessity of these non-fungible tokens NFTs in the market from multiple angles. NFTs are being used extensively for trading worldwide. These top 10 NFTs by last 7D are Courtyard, Bored Ape Yacht Club, Pudgy Penguins, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, DeezNode, Normies, Muraqqa, Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB), Bitcoin Shrooms, and Milady Maker. These NFTs are covered by 4 sides to estimate their growth in…

Stablecoins have stopped being a niche crypto product. They are scaling into systemically important payment rails, and Asian regulators are now shaping who gets to issue them and under what rules. A weekly roundup from WuBlockchain captures the acceleration: Japanese banks are preparing to issue stablecoins, Hong Kong expects to launch a regulated framework by mid-year, South Korea will tax tokenized stocks, and Malaysia dismantled a crypto fraud ring. The individual stories point to a region that is moving from policy signals to operational infrastructure, even as Western markets remain stuck in legal deadlock. Japan’s Banking Sector Moves Into Stablecoin…

Memecoin season keeps printing life-changing trades for people willing to take a shot.An anonymous wallet bought 2.79 billion $ASTEROID tokens for $575 on April 17 and sold the entire position for 503 ETH on Tuesday, worth roughly $1.17 million, according to on-chain tracker Lookonchain. The round trip took five days and produced a return of more than 2,000x. $ASTEROID is an Ethereum-based memecoin branded as “First Shiba In Space.” It is themed after a Shiba Inu drawing by Liv Perrotto, a teenage cancer patient who died in January 2026 after a five-year battle with the disease. Two years before her…

South Korea’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance has indicated that tokenized stocks are currently classified as securities under existing law, a position that could pave the way for taxation as early as the second half of this year. The statement, reported by Bloomingbit on June 12, signals a significant regulatory development for digital assets linked to traditional equities. Government Position on Tokenized Stocks An official from the Ministry of Strategy and Finance stated that the government views tokenized stocks as securities. This classification means they could be subject to immediate taxation under the Capital Markets Act, provided the Financial Services…

Binance’s Asia-Pacific head SB Seker said crypto’s 2026 outlook will depend on three factors: regulation, liquidity, and the industry’s shift from speculation toward real utility. In an interview with Business Standard, Seker said the next phase of crypto growth will be shaped less by meme-driven trading and more by infrastructure, stablecoins, tokenization, and institutional participation. His comments come at a difficult moment for Binance. Reuters reported that the exchange is set to lose permission to serve clients in the European Union after Greece’s market regulator moved to reject its application under the EU’s MiCA framework, according to two people familiar…

Kawasaki Heavy Industries is opening a robotics development center in San Jose, California, in collaboration with Nvidia, bringing physical AI research to Silicon Valley’s backyard. The partnership, first reported by Nikkei, centers on integrating Nvidia’s simulation technology into Kawasaki’s robotics lineup, with an initial focus on medical and mobility applications. What Kawasaki is actually building The star of this collaboration is Kawasaki’s Corleo, a four-legged personal mobility robot. The San Jose center will house industrial robots for demonstrations with US companies and serve as a talent recruitment hub. Microsoft and Fujitsu are also identified as stakeholders in this broader initiative,…

Alternative investment vehicles such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), led by BlackRock’s IBIT, hold sway over bitcoin’s price. That is well known by now. But another ETF from the betting world has been moving in lockstep with bitcoin’s cycles since 2020, with an interesting pattern that, to the naked eye, appears to show leading signals for $BTC trend changes. That ETF is the NYSE-listed Roundhill Sports Betting & iGaming ETF (BETZ). The fund debuted in June 2020 and has since attracted only $98 million in net inflows. As of Tuesday, it had roughly $50 million in assets under management, which is…

Ethereum has shown signs of growth in H1 to date, despite $ETH’s slow performance. While trading slowed down, lending and other activities compensated with growth. Ethereum completed a highly successful Q1, based on Token Terminal data. While $ETH remains stagnant, trading in the $1,700 range, the Ethereum network showed peak activity in the first half of 2026. During the last six months, Ethereum set a daily transaction record of 3.6M transfers, spread across 600K daily active wallets. Ethereum is still the main hub for DeFi activity, as well as stablecoin transfers. Ethereum reached peak transaction activity in H1, following another…

Crypto traders will hope the week offers a reprieve to months of geopolitical anxiety that has stifled risk assets following Sunday’s announcement of an interim peace deal between the U.S. and Iran. Bitcoin climbed to nearly $66,000 on Monday, almost 3.5% above Friday’s level, while cryptocurrency-linked equities including Strategy (MSTR) and Galaxy (GLXY) advanced in pre-market trading. There’s still a note of caution, though. A ceasefire in April fell apart, and U.S. strikes broke another truce last month, with crypto prices taking a hit. Wednesday sees Kevin Warsh’s first interest-rate decision as Federal Reserve chair. The forecast is for no…