Author: NBTC

The European Union is debating whether Amazon, Microsoft, and Google should be allowed to keep hoovering up government cloud contracts across the continent, or whether Europe’s own tech companies deserve a bigger slice of the pie. A vote on revised cloud procurement rules is scheduled for June 3, 2026. The expected outcome won’t fully ban US hyperscalers from public-sector work, but it will likely tilt the playing field toward European providers. The numbers that explain Europe’s problem Amazon Web Services holds roughly 28% of the global cloud market. Microsoft Azure controls about 21%. Google Cloud sits at around 14%. Combined,…

Bitget has announced the launch of Reality, a regulated real-world asset issuance platform designed for global markets, marking a new attempt to close the long-running gap between traditional finance and crypto-native infrastructure. The platform enters a space that has often struggled with a basic trade-off: tokenized assets could either be compliant and restricted, or flexible and liquid, but rarely both. Reality says it wants to end that compromise. Built as a subsidiary of Bitget, Reality is focused on turning real-world assets into on-chain instruments that preserve the value and behavior of the underlying asset while making them easier to access,…

Russian authorities are preparing to ban crypto mining in the capital city, the adjacent Moscow Oblast and parts of the Kursk region for the next six years. The news follows reports that mining may be restricted in the whole of Central Russia and comes alongside the adoption of stiff penalties for illegal miners. Russian government mulls mining ban in Moscow A Russian government commission responsible for the electric power industry has recommended banning cryptocurrency mining in more of the country’s regions. The planned full prohibition is expected to cover the city of Moscow, the Moscow Oblast which surrounds it, as…

The convergence of AI and DePIN continues to power a huge catalyst for innovation in Web3, and to capitalize on its Neuro has announced a partnership with MixMax. By integrating Neuro’s decentralized AI compute infra with MixMax’s scalable blockchain ecosystem, the partnership seeks to build new opportunities for DeFi, AI-powered apps, and developers building next-gen decentralized solutions. Synergizing Decentralized AI Compute and Multi-Layer Blockchain This partnership exchanges technological strength between companies. Neuro has been designed as an efficient computing layer specifically for powering advanced AI and Web3 workloads. With massive amounts of increasingly continuous compute power at hand, needing to…

An unknown trader’s $1.3 billion sale of shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund on Tuesday has coincided with a steep fall in the price of Bitcoin immediately after the sale, according to analysts. A trader sold 29.2 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) at 2:30 pm UTC on a “dark pool,” a private trading platform that institutions often use to discreetly make large trades outside of public markets. The impact of the $1.3 billion trade was immediately felt in the crypto market, with TradingView data showing that Bitcoin (BTC) fell 1.5% from $77,875 to $76,720 in a…

$XRP Ledger, the Layer 1 blockchain that uses the $XRP token to facilitate multi-currency transactions, is slated to implement a major maintenance and bug-fixing upgrade Wednesday. If you run a node, a computer that helps verify transactions on the network, you need update to the latest version by the deadline, or face disconnection from the network entirely. For regular users who just hold $XRP in a wallet or on an exchange, you don’t need to do anything. The upgrade, called the fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment, patches the following key bugs and inefficiencies that have built up over time. Here’s what each one…

Blockchain researcher William Mougayar defended the Ethereum Foundation after months of criticism over $ETH sales, unstaking activity, and limited public communication. Mougayar said critics often judge the Ethereum Foundation by the wrong standard. In his X post titled “Leave the Foundation Alone,” he argued that the group serves the protocol rather than $ETH’s market price. https://t.co/TCA3lPwh3W — William Mougayar (@wmougayar) May 24, 2026 He said $ETH, Ethereum, and the Ethereum Foundation are separate parts of the ecosystem. He described $ETH as money, Ethereum as shared compute, and the Foundation as a non-profit working to reduce its own role over time.…

Prime Trust’s estate has sued Strike, claiming the Bitcoin payments company withdrew nearly $29.5 million and 1,939 Bitcoin just weeks before Prime Trust went bankrupt. The lawsuit is now raising questions about whether some crypto firms saw the collapse coming early and quickly moved funds to protect themselves Prime Trust Estate Targets Strike Withdrawals According to the newly filed complaint, Strike allegedly withdrew nearly $29.5 million and 1,939 Bitcoin from Prime Trust during the company’s final weeks before bankruptcy. The filing specifically highlights a large 1,350 $BTC transfer that reportedly took place on June 2, 2023, shortly before regulators moved…

Canton Network (@CantonNetwork) Super Validators are an invitation-only class of nodes that run the network’s shared interoperability layer, validate Canton Coin transfers, and hold the votes that decide how the protocol changes. They are the institutional core of a blockchain built for regulated finance, and the group has grown to around 55 operators, including Visa, DTCC, Chainlink, Nasdaq, and Circle. That last detail is the hook. A card network, the largest US securities depository, a major exchange operator, the biggest decentralized oracle provider, and a leading stablecoin issuer now sit in the same governance body. To see why that matters,…

A US Army Master Sergeant has been indicted for allegedly using classified military information to place bets on Polymarket, reportedly turning roughly $34,000 into more than $400,000. It is the first federal prosecution for insider trading tied to a prediction market, and it is forcing Washington to reckon with a regulatory blind spot that has been hiding in plain sight. The Department of Justice unsealed the indictment of Gannon Ken Van Dyke on April 23, charging him with leveraging privileged intelligence about the potential ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to place highly targeted wagers on the blockchain-based platform. The…