Author: NBTC

The crypto market always remains the topic of debate due to its daily and weekly ups and downs, and therefore, it gets the attention of crypto holders all the time. This daily and weekly momentum provides a pathway and can be used as a behavioral indicator for certain cryptocurrencies. From the statistical calculation, there are many cryptocurrencies that performed well in the last week and grabbed crypto holders’ attention. There is a hierarchical list of top crypto gainers of the week that show record growth, and the overall market remains in an upward trend. Here are Crypto gainers named as…

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced Tuesday amendments to a Cabinet Office Ordinance that would recognize certain foreign trust-type stablecoins as “electronic payment instruments” under the Payment Services Act. The new rules, published under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, will take effect on June 1, 2026. The amendment creates a framework allowing foreign trust beneficiary rights-based stablecoins issued by overseas trust banks and similar institutions to be handled domestically by registered electronic payment service providers instead of being treated as securities under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. To receive recognition, issuers must satisfy several regulatory conditions. They must operate under…

Fireblocks, Robinhood, MetaMask, and more than two dozen other financial and crypto firms have joined forces to launch the Open Transaction Layer (OTL), an industry-wide effort to build the coordination standard required for onchain finance to scale globally. OTL establishes shared protocols for identity, messaging, and transaction coordination between institutions, unhosted wallets, and AI-driven agents, according to a Thursday press release. In addition to Fireblocks, Robinhood, and MetaMask, the alliance debuted with support from other major players including Checkout.com, FalconX, Wintermute, Cross River Bank, Securitize, SoFi, WalletConnect, and the Blockchain Payments Consortium whose members are TON Foundation, Stellar Development Foundation,…

Bitcoin price just flashed the same warning that preceded its 35% January collapse, slipping below a cluster of critical technical lines on the daily chart. A single wallet still withdrew 873 $BTC worth $66 million from OKX, possibly betting the outcome this time will look nothing like January. Bitcoin Price Cracks All Four EMAs as a $66 Million Whale Buy Hits Bitcoin ($BTC) is trading at $75,567, now below all four key Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs), trend indicators that smooth recent price action to flag the underlying direction. The 20-day EMA sits at $77,428, the 50-day at $76,677, the 100-day…

Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute has contributed $200,000 to a Quadratic Funding (QF) round dedicated to Ethereum security projects, the firm announced via X. The donation comes in the wake of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s recent statement that he intends to narrow the Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) core focus to four principles: Censorship Resistance, Open Source, Privacy, and Security — collectively referred to as CROPS. Quadratic Funding Round for Security Infrastructure The QF round, which concluded on May 12, marks the first initiative by TheDAO Security Fund. This fund was established using unclaimed Ether (ETH) from the 2016 TheDAO hack, a landmark…

ReYuu Japan (TYO: 9425) and Canadian investment firm Universal Digital (CNSX: LFG) have terminated their $100 million loan facility agreement, adding to a growing list of companies that are abandoning their crypto holding strategies. The $100 million loan was supposed to help the Japanese electronics reseller buy digital assets, but now that the deal has been dissolved, ReYuu will now be looking to move on with plans such as developing AI technology in collaboration with a Chinese-based company. Why did the ReYuu Japan deal with Universal Digital fall apart? ReYuu Japan and Universal Digital signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding…

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding the agency that regulates national banks explain its chartering of nine crypto-focused institutions, which she argued didn’t meet federal regulations and constitute a risk to the financial system. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted trust charters to a series of banks as the agency embraced President Donald Trump’s agenda to elevate the crypto sector and establish a friendly regulatory environment. Now Warren, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, sent a letter to OCC chief Jonathan Gould, calling for an explanation of approvals for trusts belonging to such…

Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe, has processed 3.9 million transactions across 177,000 addresses since mainnet launched on March 18, according to data shared by Dune Analytics. The chain’s native TIP-20 stablecoin standard now supports circulating supply exceeding $25M across multiple issuers and yield-bearing token variants. The TIP-20 standard makes stablecoins native to the Tempo protocol through precompile-based implementation rather than ERC-20 contracts. Issuers gain access to programmable policies including transfer rules, allowlists, and fee logic enforced at the chain level. Stablecoin supply is distributed across multiple issuers: pathUSD anchors the network at $8.2M, while USDB, USDT0, and…

Bitcoin is likely on the verge of heightened volatility due to the combination of leverage, retail speculation, and aggressive spot selling. Popular crypto analyst Ted recently took note of several rather alarming derivatives market indicators. Bitcoin has been printing a series of lower highs and lower lows on its one-hour chart. Recently, the cryptocurrency dropped below the $75,000 level. Aggregated open interest has sharply rebounded back toward 268,600 coins. It has a major influx of new futures positions. $BTC is going down.OI is going up.Funding is going up.Coinbase Premium is negative.You know what happens next. pic.twitter.com/wXNzus7MXR — Ted (@TedPillows) May…

In the DeFi space, an odd pattern has begun to emerge, with the Decentralized Exchange (DEX) volume chart depicting a troubling picture. According to DeFiLlama data, by 28 May, the DEX volume fell from $22 billion in late January 2026 to $6.047 billion. Source: DeFiLlama As expected, this has resulted in ongoing chatter suggesting that, “DeFi could be dying.” During the peak of the market in October 2025, DEX volume had risen to $159 billion. Following the well-known October crash, there have been week-on-week drops though. For its part, weekly volumes are now closer to $40 billion, about 76% lower…