Author: NBTC

Crypto firms, artificial intelligence companies, and online gambling businesses are behind a $517 million of corporate election spending focused on the 2026 U.S. races. Public Citizen’s data claims that U.S. companies put that sum into House and Senate contests during the 15 months through the first quarter, surpassing the $461 million corporations spent across the full two-year 2024 election cycle. Even more cash is expected before voting on November 3, when Democrats will try to control both chambers. The businesses sending the largest checks are not the traditional powers that dominated political money in Washington for decades. Crypto, tech, and…

Haseeb Qureshi, a partner at cryptocurrency-focused investment company Dragonfly, said that the current turmoil in the crypto market is a healthy phase for the sector. According to Qureshi, the departure of some veteran and experienced figures from the industry doesn’t mean crypto is nearing its end; rather, it signals a natural cleanup process in the market, similar to the bursting of early tech bubbles. Qureshi stated that while short-term pain may be inevitable during such periods, the long-term benefits are far more important. The Dragonfly partner argued that pessimistic expectations are exaggerated in every bear market, and that staying in…

Justin Sun’s lawsuit against World Liberty Financial has cleared a major procedural hurdle, and the case is staying in open court. A federal judge rejected World Liberty’s attempt to push all of Sun’s claims into private arbitration and seal the proceedings, allowing his individual claims to continue publicly. Justin Sun Lawsuit Moves Into Public View The dispute stems from Sun’s reported $45 million investment in $WLFI, involving 4 billion tokens. Sun is seeking hundreds of million of dollars in damages, alleging that World Liberty Financial secretly retained contractual powers to freeze, transfer and burn holders tokens and then exercised those…

$HTX, the cryptocurrency exchange formerly known as Huobi, has been removed from search results on Google Play and Apple’s App Store in South Korea. Users in the country report that searching for the $HTX app no longer returns the official application, raising questions about the exchange’s availability in one of Asia’s most active crypto markets. Why the Removal Matters South Korea has strict regulations governing cryptocurrency exchanges. The country’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) requires all virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to register with authorities and comply with anti-money laundering (AML) rules. Exchanges that fail to meet these requirements are not…

Canadian billionaire investor Frank Giustra has slammed Michael Saylor following Strategy’s latest $BTC sale. This time, he has argued that the executive has done more harm than good for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The remarks came shortly after Strategy disclosed that it had sold another 1,637 $BTC worth roughly $102.3 million as part of its treasury management strategy. Despite the sale, the company remains by far the largest corporate Bitcoin holder, with 842,138 $BTC valued at approximately $52.65 billion. One X user said that the criticism stemmed from Giustra’s unsuccessful 2021 debate with Saylor, but the Canadian businessman pushed back…

During his appearance at the SALT Wyoming conference, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has stated that Ripple is fully embracing artificial intelligence (AI). “I have a somewhat contrarian view on some of this,” Garlinghouse stated. “Ripple has adopted AI aggressively. I think if you are in a growing business, a growing category, and taking share, AI is an enabler and an accelerant.” Garlinghouse does not believe that AI is the reason behind some high-profile corporate downsizings. “When I see companies announce big layoffs and they say, ‘Oh, well, AI X, Y, and Z,’ that to me says, ‘Well, they were bloated…

The $BNB Chain ecosystem has remained one of the busiest networks in crypto despite the broader market slowdown. While many large-cap cryptocurrencies continue struggling to regain momentum, Binance Coin ($BNB) has shown relative stability compared with several competing assets. At the same time, investors are increasingly looking beyond established tokens toward projects launching directly on the network. One of the names benefiting from that trend is MemeToro ($MT). Built on $BNB Chain, the AI-powered presale has continued attracting attention through its expanding ecosystem rather than short-term market speculation. As capital searches for new opportunities during the current market cycle, both…

When Russian investigators detained IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy in September 2025, Binance had been formally out of Russia for almost two years. Its customer records, however, were still available. Law enforcement documents reviewed by Reuters show that Binance supplied personal and transaction data later incorporated into a Russian terrorism-financing case against Belenkiy. The 49-year-old Russian passport holder, who also has a Bulgarian residence permit, is accused of sending more than $700 in crypto to Ukrainian recipients between January 2023 and March 2024. Russian authorities say the payments supported a group linked to the Azov military unit, which Moscow designates as…

Since 1 July 2026, crypto service providers in the European Union may only operate if they hold an authorisation under the MiCA regulation. Anyone who failed to obtain one by that date has to wind down their EU business and ask customers to withdraw their balances. A wave of fraud has grown out of exactly that: tens of thousands of investors across Europe are right now receiving a perfectly legitimate message telling them to move their money elsewhere. For criminals this is the most convenient starting position in years, because their own demand no longer has to sound plausible. It…

The U.S. spot crypto ETF market has ended a three-week streak of net capital inflows and faced broad-based withdrawals. The epicenter of the sell-off was BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). As the absolute market leader with total net assets of $46.18 billion, the fund took the brunt of worsening market sentiment. Investors who entered the asset near its peak are now seeing the fund’s one-year return at -45.62% and are locking in losses en masse. ETF selling pressure pushes Bitcoin toward a $52,000 bottom formation The fund’s scale has turned the actions of its clients into a market-wide trigger. According…