Author: NBTC

A new arXiv preprint studying seven major Bitcoin crashes found the warning signal shifting among price, leverage, and order flow from one event to the next. One clue echoed across six usable cases. Taker order-flow variance tightened before each cascade, a faint weather front across the group rather than a siren traders could trust to call the next crash. Ramon Marc Garcia Seuma submitted the single-author paper on July 29, 2026. The work has not been peer reviewed. It analyzed Binance’s USD-margined BTCUSDT perpetual market across cascades from May 2022 through October 2025, using one-minute price bars and five-minute open…

Kraken has redesigned Kraken Prime as a self-service trading and operations interface for institutional clients, moving more of the product away from API integrations and desk-managed workflows. The company said the updated Prime interface now gives clients access to execution, settlement, access controls and order management without requiring API setup. The platform is aimed at institutional users that want to manage trading activity, exposure and post-trade processes from a single interface. Until now, Kraken said, access to much of that infrastructure required either API integrations or going through the desk. The web interface previously supported OTC RFQ, while a fuller…

Mantle has accumulated about $880 million in stablecoins and tokenized assets as its onchain product range has expanded across equities, Treasuries, funds and yield-bearing assets. Mantle’s asset base approaches $880 million Blockworks Research data shows that Mantle’s stablecoin circulating supply has reached approximately $550 million, while tokenized assets on the network account for another $330 million. The two categories place the combined value at about $880 million. Source: Mantle/Blockworks Unlike networks built mainly around one class of real-world assets, Mantle’s tokenized supply covers commodities, stocks, U.S. Treasuries, yield-bearing stablecoins, a pre-IPO vault and the MI4 tokenized fund. Blockworks counts 985…

The crypto market has struggled through much of the year amid limited capital inflows. Now, it could face tighter conditions capable of squeezing more liquidity from the space. The outlook followed rising U.S. bond yields, which increased the appeal of lower-risk assets. This shift could leave crypto holdings such as Bitcoin [$BTC] and altcoins off investors’ preferred list. Bitcoin has already shed over $675 billion in market value since its January high. Could rising bond yields hurt crypto? The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed to 5.234% during the early hours of the 30th of July. That move marked its highest…

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are in focus on Monday after closing sharply higher on Friday, as a long-term margin forecast from US flash-memory maker SanDisk gave investors reason to reassess how long the AI-driven memory boom could last. South Korean markets are closed Monday for the Liberation Day holiday. On Friday, Samsung rose 2.43% to 274,500 won and SK Hynix climbed 3.26% to 1.645 million won, helping the KOSPI finish 2.41% higher at 6,977.34. The catalyst was SanDisk’s investor day, where the company laid out a framework that challenged assumptions about memory cyclicality. SanDisk expects mid- to high-teens revenue…

Sei Network is rebuilding its blockchain from the ground up to hit 200,000 transactions per second with finality under 400 milliseconds. The project, called Giga, is not one upgrade but three separate ones working together: a new consensus layer, a new execution engine, and a new storage system. Sei Labs published the public roadmap in late May 2026, and parts of it are already live on mainnet. For readers who know Sei only as a fast, trading-focused Layer 1, Giga marks a jump in ambition. The network’s earlier throughput sat in the 5,000 to 12,500 TPS range. If Giga hits…

Copy trading technology provider Pelican has obtained regulatory authorisation in South Africa, giving it a local framework to offer copy trading services to brokers in the market. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority granted the licence in June 2026 under FSP No. 55408 to London & Eastern LLP, the regulatory entity through which Pelican provides its copy trading services. The authorisation covers portfolio management and investment advice services. Pelican describes the approval as the first licence of its kind in South Africa for copy trading. The structure follows the regulatory approach it has used in the UK and Europe, where copy…

Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an onchain repo transaction using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, with the full transaction settling on the Canton Network. The transaction used USDM1, a US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands and backed 1:1 by short-term US Treasurys. The bond pays a coupon while being used as collateral and is structured under New York law as a fully collateralized sovereign obligation. Both companies said it was the first repo to combine natively issued sovereign collateral with fully onchain atomic settlement. Executed between regulated counterparties on Tradeweb,…

7 Bitcoin Funds Gain as Blackrock Pulls $183.38M The institutional bid for bitcoin returned with force. After ending a four-day losing streak one session earlier, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs drew more than $233 million as fresh capital flowed into seven funds with no product reporting outflows. Ether ETFs also moved back into the green. $XRP products posted their strongest inflow of the week, while solana recorded a smaller gain. Blackrock Powers Broad Bitcoin ETF Advance Blackrock’s IBIT led the bitcoin category with $183.38 million in inflows, accounting for nearly four-fifths of the daily total. Bitwise’s BITB followed with $20.74 million,…

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness AI hedge fund lost around 67% of its value in July. This was the result of margin calls leading the fund to sell its public portfolio. The collapse of such a fund poses a question for equity investors in regard to the second half of 2026. Despite accurately predicting the demand for AI, the fund almost experienced a catastrophe, making this event significant for reasons beyond a single hedge fund manager. Whether or not the technology sector will remain as volatile going forward is one of the central questions now facing markets heading into the end…