Author: NBTC

Blockchain enterprise solutions provider Ripple has partnered with digital asset infrastructure company SettleMint to offer financial institutions solutions for custody, issuance and management of tokenized assets across their full lifecycle. The strategic partnership will integrate Ripple’s institutional digital asset custody infrastructure, Ripple Custody, and SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) to offer institutions a less complex way to secure digital assets, Ripple announced on Tuesday. A day earlier, digital asset service provider Coincheck Group partnered with wallet infrastructure provider DFNS to build digital asset wallet technology and custody services in Japan. DFNS’s wallet-as-a-service offers institutions full transaction lifecycle management, including…

Hyperliquid, a leading decentralized perpetuals exchange, has burned approximately $1.07 million worth of its native $HYPE token over the past 24 hours, according to data from Onchain Lens. During the same period, the platform generated $1.45 million in trading fees, underscoring the scale of its ongoing buyback-and-burn mechanism. Burn Mechanics and Cumulative Impact The burn is part of Hyperliquid’s deflationary tokenomics, where a portion of trading fees is used to repurchase and permanently remove $HYPE from circulation. This latest daily burn brings cumulative burns to 47.62 million $HYPE, valued at roughly $2.63 billion at current prices. That figure represents 4.76%…

Harborne and Delo subsequently gave about 3 million and 4 million pounds, respectively, in the first quarter of 2026. Together, that accounted for roughly 76% of Reform’s 9.26 million pounds in reported donations, excluding public funds, according to a calculation based on Electoral Commission figures. Farage has actively courted the industry. At the Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas in May 2025, he vowed to establish a bitcoin reserve at the Bank of England, introduce a 10% capital gains tax on cryptoassets and prevent banks from closing customers’ accounts because of their crypto activity. The Guardian’s report did not specify whether…

Binance $XRP reserves have fallen to their lowest monthly average since February 2024, with roughly 500 million $XRP leaving the exchange over the past year. The decline comes despite $XRP posting a nearly 30% gain over the latest month. This highlights a divergence between the coin’s price performance and the amount of $XRP held on the world’s largest crypto exchange. Binance $XRP Reserves Drop to 2.6 Billion CryptoQuant author Darkfost said Binance’s monthly average $XRP reserves have declined from approximately 3.1 billion $XRP in November 2025 to around 2.6 billion $XRP currently. That represents a reduction of about 500 million…

Spot market conditions have improved after months of weakness, with U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs shifting from persistent outflows to modest inflows. Still, the report cautioned that demand has yet to fully recover, with ETF flows and purchases by corporate bitcoin treasury companies such as Strategy (STR) remaining well below the levels seen earlier this year. While bitcoin’s rebound has helped lift sentiment across the market after a difficult second quarter, Bitfinex cautioned that the recovery is “not yet healed.” Bitcoin currently accounts for nearly 67% of spot crypto trading volume, up from roughly 50% a year ago, according to Bitfinex.…

Only about 322,000 $XRP accounts hold at least 10,000 $XRP, according to the latest $XRP rich-list data. The figures suggest that wallets with five-figure $XRP balances remain a relatively small group, despite the network having more than 8 million accounts. The data comes as $XRP trades around $1, leaving the 10,000-$XRP threshold worth roughly $10,000 at current prices. The figures also provide fresh context to a recent post from crypto commentator John Squire, who argued that only around 300,000 people worldwide hold more than 3,000 $XRP and asked followers whether they were among them. 322,083 Accounts Hold 10,000 $XRP or…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a same-owner requirement for stablecoin transfers that would sharply narrow how customers can move tokens such as $USDT through licensed crypto firms. The measure remains at the consultation stage and is not yet an operative rule. Under the SEC Board-approved Sept. 3 consultation principles, stablecoins entering a customer account at a digital asset operator would have to come from an account or wallet verified as belonging to that customer. Withdrawals would likewise have to go to an account or wallet verified as the customer’s own. The consequence is explicit: a stablecoin deposit from…

$PONS, a non-custodial token launchpad built on Robinhood Chain—an Arbitrum-based layer-2 network—has reported cumulative trading volume surpassing $4.54 billion in under two months since its launch. The platform’s rapid adoption reflects growing interest in token launchpads that operate directly within the Robinhood ecosystem, though its reliance on token burns introduces a risk factor tied to trading activity. How $PONS Works and Its Fee Structure $PONS operates as a launchpad that allows users to create and trade tokens without a centralized intermediary. The platform charges a creation fee of 0.0005 $ETH per token, along with a 1% swap fee on trades.…

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency community, SPHR is now live on the Solana network through Backpack Securities. This launch, announced by CryptoTwitter commentator @solana, opens new avenues for SPHR as it joins the growing ecosystem of assets on Solana. Traders are keenly observing how this integration will affect SPHR’s market dynamics and liquidity moving forward. The Key Development The SPHR launch on Solana via Backpack Securities arrives as the broader cryptocurrency market exhibits mixed signals. Although the current price of SPHR stands at $0, there’s a palpable anticipation among traders regarding its future performance. The integration into Solana,…

For months, the frustration among Bitcoin holders wasn’t about outright losses—it was about watching risk assets like equities grind higher while crypto chopped sideways. That tension broke this week. Bitcoin surged past $66,600, a five-week high, as the S&P 500 and gold barely budged. The 13% jump over three weeks snapped a period of underperformance that had weighed on sentiment. According to the Santiment update, the move was driven by a faster-than-expected improvement in the macro backdrop. Softer inflation data cooled rate fears, while U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs began recording net inflows again after a prolonged stretch of outflows through…