Author: NBTC

The total supply of stablecoins has crossed the $300 billion threshold for the first time, but the milestone masks a significant slowdown in market-wide growth. According to data reported by The Block, the stablecoin market expanded by less than $1 billion over the past month, a net increase of just 0.3% of total supply. Growth Deceleration Masks Shift in Market Structure While the headline figure of $300 billion suggests a thriving market, the underlying data reveals a different story. Tether ($USDT) alone added more than $5 billion to its supply during the period. However, the combined supply of three other…

Uphold President Nancy Beaton recently explained why investors are paying attention to $XRP, specifically highlighting the retail and institutional side. Beaton discussed this during a special edition of Ripple’s “Crypto in a Minute,” renamed “$XRP in a Minute” for the occasion, while speaking from the just-concluded $XRP Las Vegas (XRPLV) event. Key Points Uphold’s Nancy Beaton shared two reasons investors continue to show interest in $XRP. On the retail side, Beaton mentioned the upcoming ability to earn yield natively on the XRPL. For the enterprise aspect, she called attention to growing interest around tokenization and institutional crypto adoption. The $XRP…

Alchemy Pay, the leading fiat-crypto payment platform, has partnered with local Malaysian e-wallets, GrabPay, Boost, and Touch ‘n Go. With this partnership, Alchemy Pay is expanding fiat on-ramp service within Malaysia. As per Alchemy Pay’s official press release, the strategic development aims to permit consumers to buy crypto assets via Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) via the widely used mobile wallets. This highlights the platform’s commitment to bolstering regional payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia. 🇲🇾#AlchemyPay has expanded its fiat on-ramp service in Malaysia with the integration of three new local payment channels: GrabPay, Touch ‘n Go eWallet, and Boost. The update enables…

The world’s largest Bitcoin treasury and business intelligence firm, Strategy, has revealed its total Bitcoin purchase of 2026, scooping up all Bitcoin mined this year and more. This has followed several weeks and months of steady Bitcoin accumulation as the firm continued to show strong conviction in the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Strategy acquires 171,238 Bitcoin since 2026 began On Wednesday, May 27, Strategy revealed that it had bought more Bitcoin than miners on the network had produced so far in 2026. The company further shared data that shows that it has acquired a total of 171,238 $BTC in 2026 YTD,…

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) recovered from early losses Tuesday as investors positioned ahead of the chipmaker’s closely watched earnings report later this week. The stock initially fell as much as 2% before trimming losses and trading roughly flat by midday. Wall Street remains broadly optimistic that Nvidia’s earnings could reignite the stock’s rally and reinforce its position at the centre of the artificial intelligence boom. Nvidia is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday after the bell. Analysts surveyed by LSEG expect the company’s earnings to more than double from a year earlier, while revenue is projected to surge nearly…

Latest developments: 21Shares says its new Hyperliquid ETF saw strong early traction after launching in the U.S. Eli Ndinga, global head of research at 21Shares, told Jennifer Sanasie on CoinDesk’s Public Keys that the product recorded more than $5 million in inflows within days of launch. The ETF also generated roughly $8 million in trading volume on Thursday alone, according to Ndinga. He said the firm previously launched a Hyperliquid product in Europe and viewed bringing the strategy to U.S. investors as a priority. The launch comes as asset managers race to roll out crypto-linked ETFs tied to newer blockchain…

Crypto-backed political groups supported several winning candidates in Texas primary runoffs Tuesday, highlighting the digital asset industry’s growing role in US elections as Congress debates new rules for crypto markets. Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican US Senate runoff against four-term Senator John Cornyn by a wide margin, according to Texas primary runoff results, and will face Democratic state Representative James Talarico in November. In Houston’s 18th Congressional District, Democrat Christian Menefee unseated fellow Democrat representative Al Green in a decisive win after Republican-led redistricting forced the two incumbents into the same district, ousting one of the state’s most…

Crypto markets increasingly blur the line between speculative trading and private-equity exposure as decentralized exchanges tokenize previously inaccessible venture-backed narratives. Market participants also increasingly test whether perpetual infrastructure can sustain liquidity around valuation-driven hype cycles. Aster [$ASTER] DEX is in the news now after it launched leveraged OpenAI pre-IPO perpetuals, allowing traders to speculate on implied valuations using up to 5x leverage. Source: X This structure has increasingly transformed private-market pricing into a continuously tradable on-chain instrument beneath broader DeFi expansion trends. Meanwhile, OpenAI-linked synthetic valuations also climbed towards roughly $1,600 per share-equivalent, reflecting aggressive optimism around trillion-dollar growth expectations.…

The much-hyped copper-to-gold breakout says more about how capital is shifting between defense and growth than it does about bitcoin’s destiny on its own. Ethereum (ETH) charts and Bitcoin (BTC) flows might grab more headlines, but the signal embedded in the copper-to-gold ratio is about global liquidity and risk appetite across the entire market complex. As ALCUM COO Vytautas Mackonis puts it, “gold performs better when capital is in preservation mode: elevated aversion, higher uncertainty, and dominant defensive positioning.” By contrast, “copper performs well when capital is moving into industrial activity: manufacturing orders pick up, infrastructure investment accelerates, and cyclical…

Around 10 foreign firms have filed for listing in Hong Kong this year, covering everything from biotech to blockchain infrastructure, according to an executive at HKEX. Should all the transactions go through, 2026 will mark the best year for foreign listings in Hong Kong since at least 2020, reports say. We feel that this is the start of a structural change in the next phase of international companies listing in Hong Kong. – Johnson Chui, head of global issuer services at HKEX Companies had been coming to Hong Kong in order to reach mainland consumers or develop a Greater China…