Author: NBTC

The Bank of England just published a report that reads like a love letter to oracle networks, and Chainlink is the main character. The DLT Innovation Challenge 2025 Final Report, published on May 12 by the Bank of England and the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre, examines how distributed ledger technology could reshape wholesale payments and settlement. Among the most significant takeaways: oracles, the middleware that feeds real-world data into blockchain systems, are not just helpful. They’re foundational. What the report actually found The challenge selected nine firms to stress-test DLT’s potential in core financial infrastructure. Chainlink and Aave Labs…

Vault infrastructure provider Veda is making its vaults available to the developer teams building on Privy, the wallet infrastructure company Stripe acquired last June, the two companies said Tuesday. The announcement was made at Proof of Talk 2026 at the Louvre Palace in Paris. Until now, Veda’s vaults reached the market through one-off institutional integrations. Kraken used them to launch Kraken DeFi Earn, and EtherFi used them to build its Liquid product. Each of those took dedicated engineering and months of coordination, the kind of commitment most companies cannot justify. The Privy integration turns that into a standard API call.…

Ethereum is not moving through a dramatic narrative phase right now. There is no single catalyst driving attention the way DeFi summer or NFT cycles once did. Instead, interest is returning in a quieter way – through observation of network behaviour rather than headline events. Traders and analysts are once again paying attention to what is happening on-chain, particularly when it comes to how Ethereum is being used during different liquidity conditions. Not in theory, but in measurable activity. Search interest, such as top Ethereum casino also shows wider trends in Ethereum casino gambling across online markets. It adds another…

US President Donald Trump and his family are notable for their support and affinity for cryptocurrencies. They have their own altcoins and DeFi project, while also actively investing in other cryptocurrencies. While Donald Trump already possesses a diverse crypto portfolio, he has added new assets to it. Financial disclosure documents from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) reveal that President Trump purchased shares in Bitcoin (BTC) mining company MARA Holdings (MARA) in the first quarter of 2026 (January-March). The value of the purchase ranges from $15,001 to $50,000. MARA shares closed at $13.29 on May 14th, up 4.24% from…

COTI solved Yao’s ‘Millionaires Problem’ on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet using Garbled Circuits with no trusted intermediaries. The solution was developed with Soda Labs, is live on mainnet, and is compatible with the EVM environment and Solidity. Vitalik Buterin had publicly identified Garbled Circuits as the path toward purely cryptographic guarantees in multiparty computation. COTI solved Yao’s ‘Millionaires Problem’ on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet using Garbled Circuits, with no trusted intermediaries and end-to-end encryption. The demonstration was published this week. It is the first practical solution to this foundational challenge of secure multiparty computation —known as MPC— on Ethereum’s public infrastructure. The…

Hyperliquid launched HIP-4 outcome contracts on Trust Wallet, making it the first major wallet to integrate them. Contracts are priced between $0 and $1, with no leverage or liquidation risk, and maximum loss is limited to the position size. Trust Wallet charges no additional fees and Hyperliquid applies no fees on outcome markets at this time. Hyperliquid integrated its native HIP-4 outcome contracts into Trust Wallet, giving millions of users access to prediction markets directly from the app, with no additional accounts or identity verification required. This integration makes Trust Wallet the first large-scale wallet to offer this product. HIP-4…

Here’s a problem most crypto projects aren’t talking about yet: quantum computers will eventually be powerful enough to break the cryptographic locks that secure every blockchain in existence. Circle, the company behind $USDC, apparently doesn’t want to be caught off guard. The stablecoin giant has published a whitepaper outlining a phased post-quantum security roadmap for Arc, its forthcoming Layer-1 blockchain. The plan addresses everything from wallets and validators to off-chain infrastructure, with post-quantum signature support slated to be available when Arc’s mainnet goes live in 2026. What Circle is actually building The blockchain will incorporate NIST-standard lattice-based algorithms, including ML-DSA,…

Liquid staking on Solana has become a mature market. Most staking tokens compete on the same fundamentals: validator performance, staking rewards, and MEV revenue. Raiku believes there’s another source of yield hiding in plain sight. The company has launched rkuSOL, a new liquid staking token that allows stakers to earn not only traditional staking rewards but also revenue generated from selling Solana blockspace through Raiku’s coordination auctions. The launch is backed by several of Solana’s largest infrastructure and DeFi players, including Sanctum, Kamino, Loopscale, and Exponent. The result is what Raiku describes as the first Solana liquid staking token tied…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a new framework for building synthetic assets and algorithmic stablecoins that replaces forced liquidations with options as the foundational primitive instead of debt-based positions. In a post published Monday to the Ethereum research forum, Buterin argued that the core vulnerability of existing algorithmic stablecoin designs is their dependence on real-time oracles — price feeds that must provide binding, instantaneous valuations to trigger liquidations when collateral falls short. That dependence, he wrote, creates a single point of failure that is both technically difficult to secure and practically impossible to protect against oracle manipulation with any meaningful…

U.S. stocks are trading at valuations close to dot-com bubble extremes, a period that ended in a sharp market collapse in 2000. A cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio measure known as the Shiller P/E ratio rose as high as 42.18 this month, just below the 44.19 observed at the height of the dot-com era that marked the growth of internet companies based on the then-nascent worldwide web. The S&P 500 slumped 50% between March 2000 and October 2002, and did not regain its peak until 2007. The ratio — which smooths short-term profit swings to provide a long-term picture — suggests…