Author: NBTC

The price of XRP remains in a range-bound phase, but the team behind First Ledger is unbothered, claiming that XRP is the standard. Notably, following its meteoric surge from late-2024 to early-2025, XRP has faced massive consolidation. Specifically, the asset rallied nearly 600% from November 2024 to a peak of $3.4 in January 2025. However, this peak introduced resistance, leading to a pullback and subsequent consolidation. As a result, XRP has continued to trade in a range around the lower end of the $2 price level. This consolidation was initially a product of a broader market turbulence. However, despite a…

Bill Barhydt, the founder and chief executive of crypto-banking platform Abra, set Crypto-X alight over the weekend by reposting a collage of global M2-versus-Bitcoin charts first popularised by macro investor Raoul Pal and researcher Julien Bittel. “I’ve seen over a dozen posts with different versions of the global liquidity M2 vs Bitcoin price chart – I’ve attached several here. Credit @RaoulGMI and his colleague @BittelJulien for discovering the trend,” he wrote. “Most of these charts predict a dip over the coming days to around $100 k and then a move to new ATH of $130 k in August/September … Or…

Gradient Network, a decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project on Solana, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital. The Gradient team, which is building a decentralized AI runtime on Solana, announced the seed round funding milestone on June 17, 2025. Capital injection from the crypto venture capital giants will go into accelerating Gradient Network’s plans to democratize the edge computing ecosystem. While AI increasingly permeates every facet of society, its adoption has global concerns related to privacy, equity, and centralization top of the agenda for ecosystem players and regulators. Multiple projects are…

The last time Justin Sun set foot in the U.S. he was Grenada’s WTO ambassador and was navigating the rocky waters of former President Biden’s crypto crackdown. Times have changed. Now, he’s dining at an event hosted by President Donald Trump for the largest holders of his TRUMP memecoin and celebrating a regulatory breakthrough, as issuers eye a potential Tron ETF, signaling a striking reversal in crypto’s American fortunes. Speaking exclusively with CoinDesk after the Presidential dinner, which was met by protest outside the White House, the Tron founder dismissed allegations that the token is a vehicle for bribery. He…

Earlier this Monday, 7,000 Bitcoins (roughly $730 million at current prices) were withdrawn from Bitfinex. Unusual Activity on Bitfinex 🚨7,000 BTC ($730M) was withdrawn in a single transaction!Large moves like this often signal custody changes or institutional action pic.twitter.com/lzxbnlSk3x — Maartunn (@JA_Maartun) June 2, 2025 The transaction represents Bitfinex’s investment in Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. Tether Group had moved 4812.22029710 BTC to address bc1qzup4k7zn9jur7a8kz0dnaernzyf60h8ez6s9cpmp23wfw5djhvusd4p0v3 as part of the pre-funding of the initial convert/equity raise in Twenty One Capital (XXI)https://t.co/SqhVRzq3k9 — Paolo Ardoino 🤖 (@paoloardoino) June 2, 2025 In April, it was reported that…

Fold has entered into an agreement to issue and sell $250 million new shares of its stock, with the aim of purchasing more Bitcoin, the company said Tuesday in a statement.   The publicly traded Bitcoin financial services firm plans to sell shares of its common stock to pre-selected investors and institutions rather than on a public exchange. The Phoenix-based company has not set a timeline for its issuance and sale of the shares.  Fold shares are trading at $4.57, down nearly 3%, according to YahooFinance data. The stock is down about 60% since the start of the year. The majority…

Jump Crypto, a subsidiary of Jump Trading, showed signs of returning to the Solana market. A wallet flagged as belonging to the market maker received a large transaction of SOON tokens. Jump Crypto is making forays into the crypto market, just months after trying to divest its assets and abandoning old projects. However, the market maker did not entirely abandon crypto activities. Recently, a wallet flagged by Arkham Intelligence received a significant transaction of SOON tokens. Before that, the wallet received several smaller transfers from external senders. Jump Crypto started receiving SOON on the day of the airdrop and the…

The war for artificial intelligence supremacy is no longer fought in code alone; it’s now a fight over talent, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just pulled off a major heist, poaching talent from rivals OpenAI and Google. Zuckerberg revealed the new AI researcher dream team today, which he called the Meta Superintelligence Labs. Many of the new team members were lured away from rival firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. The team is led by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, who now serves as Meta’s Chief AI Officer. He…

With Bitcoin price steady above $100,000, it could be enough to make Satoshi Nakamoto the second-richest man in the world by next year. If the largest cryptocurrency hits $200,000, it would give him a $219 billion net worth. Several analysts agree that this price is realistic and possible in the mid to short term. It’s unlikely that Satoshi will ever be formally recognized as an ultra-high-net-worth individual, but it would be an important benchmark of success nonetheless. Satoshi’s Immortal Legacy Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been totally off the grid for years, but he still casts a long shadow over…

America’s largest crypto exchange Coinbase hopes to soon offer trading services for tokenized equities, according to a Reuters interview with the firm’s chief legal officer published Tuesday.  Paul Grewal said that it was a “huge priority” for Coinbase to secure SEC approval to allow such assets to trade. In an X post afterwards, Grewal said that he was merely echoing a Coinbase position made public this spring.  “We’ve been saying since earlier this year that [the SEC] should enable markets to unlock tokenized securities,” he wrote.  Exciting? Yes. Important? Absolutely. But breaking news? Not exactly. We’ve been saying since earlier this year…