Author: NBTC
With many projects getting ready for TGEs, the eight-year fund I is on target to deploy the remaining funds by the end of the year. The Stanford ecosystem is the primary source of pre-seed and seed-stage blockchain founder investments made by Blockchain Builders, a venture fund. The Stanford blockchain ecosystem’s venture fund, Blockchain Builders, has announced that its $28 million Fund I, which was oversubscribed, has been successfully closed. The pre-seed and seed-stage fund makes investments in outstanding innovators from other prestigious universities as well as Stanford’s trailblazing crypto community. Gil Rosen, Kun Peng, and Steven Willinger, three Stanford graduate…
According to Maghnus Mareneck, co-CEO of Interchain Labs, the Colombian government will be testing a still-unannounced CBDC on the Cosmos network. Colombia aims to target cross-border payments with this new CBDC, which has just emerged from stealth with this announcement. Colombia Hops Onto the CBDC Bandwagon With Stealth CBDC Pilot Colombia would be the latest country in Latam to experiment with the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). At an interview with The Street, Interchain Labs co-CEO Maghnus Mareneck revealed that they were working with a consortium of banks and the Colombian government in a joint pilot of…
John Wingate, CEO of BankSocial and Hedera developer, recently sparked excitement in the XRP community after revealing that he had a meeting with Ripple’s team. His post on X described the encounter as possibly “the greatest meeting in the history of international settlements.” This dramatic language hints at a game-changing collaboration potentially involving Ripple, Hedera, and BankSocial. HBAR Remains Core, But XRP Enters the Picture While reaffirming that Hedera and its native token HBAR remain a major part of BankSocial’s strategy, Wingate confirmed a new addition: XRP. This may mark an evolution in BankSocial’s roadmap. Specifically, it suggests an effort…
Ozean, the real-world asset (RWA) blockchain by Clearpool, has partnered with ChainSight to enhance its oracle system. Ozean’s decentralized apps now benefit from secure, fast data from off-chain sources, enabling new options for pricing and handling tokens, following regulations, and earning rewards in decentralized finance (DeFi). 🔐 Ozean Partners with @ChainSight_ to Power Secure Oracle Infrastructure for RWA dAppsOzean is integrating ChainSight’s full-stack oracle and data layer to enable RWA dApps to securely access real-time off-chain data on-chain.With zero downtime and $1B+ secured in total… pic.twitter.com/HWfejqVvty — Clearpool (launching Ozean🌊) (@ClearpoolFin) May 27, 2025 Exploring Ways to Connect Strategic Data…
Bitcoin’s price surged strongly recently but faced a correction early last week. Now, the crypto king aims to recover those losses and continue its upward momentum. This rebound looks possible due to solid investor support, which is helping to stabilize the market and foster renewed confidence. Bitcoin Investors Remain Bullish Supply by Investor Behavior shows an uptick in Bitcoin. BTC first-time buyers have a sharp rise from July to December 2024 and again from March to May 2025. Both periods align with significant price expansions, indicating fresh capital inflows are strengthening the market’s structure. These new investor inflows suggest growing…
Stablecoins have the potential to cut transaction costs globally and strengthen the U.S. dollar’s global position, according to Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, emphasized the strategic role of stablecoins and emerging crypto legislation during a recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box. While addressing Bitcoin’s price movement, he shifted focus toward how stablecoins could reduce global transaction costs and reinforce U.S. dollar dominance. Scaramucci underlined the bipartisan push behind new regulatory frameworks such as the Stable Act and the GENIUS Act. For context, the legislation, supported by industry stakeholders, sets regulatory guidelines for stablecoins, digital tokens typically linked to…
Sergey Nazarov has announced that CCIP has gone live on the Solana to enable the secure transfer of data across different blockchain networks. Chainlink has also partnered with the Solana Foundation to support startups on Solana with technical resources and guidance. Sergey Nazarov, the co-founder of the Chainlink network, made a major announcement while speaking at the SolanaAccelerate event. He revealed that Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially gone live on the Solana (SOL) network. “I’m thrilled to say that now, as of this week, CCIP is live on Solana,” Nazarov said. It brings that same level of security…
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Last month, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) quietly published Guidelines 02/2025 on the processing of personal data through blockchain technologies. Buried in paragraph 63 is a line that jolted the entire web3 stack: “When deletion has not been taken into account by design, this may require deleting the whole blockchain.” That one clause converts GDPR from the world’s privacy gold standard into a kill-switch for every permissionless network. Yes, that includes Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and…
When geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, he made headlines for calling Bitcoin fundamentally worthless, stating that it had “no intrinsic value” and was “actually worth negative $1,000.” At the time, Bitcoin was trading at around $16,000. “It has another $17,000 to go down,” Zeihan said during the podcast. “There’s no intrinsic value to this product.” He argued that the rise of crypto was more ideological than financial. “Whenever you invest based on an ideology, you’re going to make some decisions that are a little divorced from math,” he added. Zeihan described the crypto movement as…
As the world’s largest asset manager expands its crypto reach, its chief rival has thus far resisted entering the market. BlackRock has added a layer of credibility to crypto for a segment of investors, given its management of $11.5 trillion in assets. The iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the fastest-growing ETF of all time, managed nearly $69 billion as of Wednesday. Yet Vanguard, with its roughly $10 trillion in assets under management, isn’t biting — even as major competitors continue to seek more entry points. Vanguard was not among the firms lining up to launch the first US spot bitcoin ETFs…