Author: NBTC

Public companies kept stacking Bitcoin in June, but the month’s real story played out in a corner of the market that did not exist a couple of years ago: the preferred shares that treasury firms now use to fund their coin purchases. A new report from BitcoinTreasuries.net calls June the first true stress test for this “digital credit” market, and the results offer a mixed but telling verdict on where corporate Bitcoin adoption goes next. First, the buying. Public treasuries added close to 9,000 $BTC before sales in June, or about 7,300 $BTC on a net basis, worth some $427…

Within a week of Robinhood Chain’s mainnet going live, the ecosystem already included Uniswap’s dedicated automated market maker (AMM), Arcus, a stock token and crypto exchange set up in collaboration with dYdX Labs, the derivatives venue Lighter and the spot exchange Rialto. Total value locked reportedly reached $75mn by 9 Jul, according to DeFiLlama, the majority of which was in Morpho’s lending protocol. The World platform went live inside the Phantom wallet on 1 Jul to great fanfare. Some traders have accused World of using Solana for opening-week attention before decamping once the publicity paid off, to follow the next…

In brief Ethereum Foundation researchers are using AI agents to red-team critical network infrastructure. The agents helped uncover a peer-to-peer software vulnerability that was later disclosed. AI-assisted audits have already surfaced bugs in blockchain projects, including Zcash. The Ethereum Foundation is using swarms of AI agents to attack Ethereum—before someone else does. In a blog post on Thursday, Ethereum Foundation researchers on the Protocol Security team said they have deployed a series of AI agents against the software Ethereum relies on, hunting for vulnerabilities in cryptographic systems, protocol code, and smart contracts. “We’ve been running coordinated AI agents against the…

In brief $AVAX One regained compliance with Nasdaq’s $1.00 minimum bid price rule after 10 straight days above threshold. The crypto treasury company rose back above the minimum level thanks to a 1-for-12 reverse stock split in June. Interim CEO Pete Wylie says the company is now focused on growth and profitability. $AVAX One Technology, a crypto treasury firm that holds Avalanche ($AVAX), announced Thursday that it has regained compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum bid price requirement, closing out a listing issue that had put the company under scrutiny ahead of last month’s reverse stock split. The West Palm Beach, Florida-based…

Neo has released Neo-CLI v3.10.1, a patch update that sets the Gorgon hard fork activation heights, targeting TestNet on approximately July 24 and MainNet on Aug. 1. The release also fixes an RPC wallet bug that was breaking ordinary transfers since v3.10.0 was deployed to MainNet on June 26. The Gorgon hard fork will activate at block 17,960,000 on TestNet and block 12,020,000 on MainNet. Node operators running Neo-CLI must upgrade before these heights or fall out of consensus. No blockchain resync is required for operators who upgrade in time. Dynamic opcode pricing clears the path for cheaper transactions Gorgon…

Less than a week after the U.S. stock and crypto trading app Robinhood (HOOD) launched its proprietary Layer 2 network, Robinhood Chain, trading volume on the network via the Uniswap protocol has reached $250 million, according to a report by The Block. The milestone underscores early and strong adoption of the new infrastructure by decentralized finance (DeFi) users. Rapid Adoption Signals Growing Demand for Layer 2 Solutions Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 scaling solution built on Ethereum, was introduced to offer faster and cheaper transactions for users of the popular trading platform. The integration with Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange,…

Ethereum traded near $1,777.49 at the time of writing, up 0.5% in the past 24 hours, according to crypto.news market data. The token had a 24-hour low of $1,732.10 and a high of $1,819.88, while daily trading volume stood near $17.08 billion. The move kept $ETH close to the $1,800 area, which traders now view as the main short-term resistance zone. The token has recovered from the sharp June selloff after buyers defended the $1,500 to $1,600 area. The current setup has turned attention to a daily close above $1,800. Analysts say that level could decide whether $ETH builds a…

A crypto-backed mortgage is a home loan that lets you pledge cryptocurrency, usually Bitcoin or $USDC, as collateral for the down payment instead of selling it. You get the house, your coins stay in custody, and you avoid a taxable sale. In most other respects it behaves like any ordinary mortgage. The idea moved from niche to mainstream this year. Coinbase (@coinbase) and Better Home & Finance (@betrmortgage), an AI-native mortgage lender, announced the first Fannie Mae-backed crypto mortgages in the United States in March 2026 and opened a waitlist. The first loan was funded on June 4, with a…

T. Rowe Price, the 89-year-old investment giant that manages approximately $1.9 trillion in assets for pension funds and retirement savers, has received SEC approval for its first ever crypto fund, and $XRP is one of the coins it picked. The fund, trading under the ticker TKNZ, is the first actively managed multi-coin crypto ETF launched by a major traditional financial institution. While Coinbase and Bitwise launching crypto products is business as usual, T. Rowe Price launching one is a different signal entirely. This is a firm that built its reputation managing retirement savings, the kind of money that cannot afford…

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has won a $22 million arbitration award against former auditor Mazars USA and asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to enter judgment on the award, according to a letter published Tuesday by co-CEO Arjun Sethi. Payward said Mazars withdrew from the exchange’s nearly completed 2022 audit despite finding no fraud, raising no concerns about management’s integrity and reporting no disagreements with the company. “An audit is not a favor. It is oxygen,” Sethi wrote, arguing that independent audits are essential for obtaining banking services, licenses and other business relationships. Sethi said Mazars’…