Author: NBTC

Monetae has launched Monetae Markets, giving customers in El Salvador access to tokenised US equities and ETFs through Alpaca’s infrastructure. The product lets users gain exposure to 70 tokenised US equities and ETFs, with minimum investments starting at $5. According to Alpaca, it custodies the underlying shares through its infrastructure, while Monetae operates the regulated digital finance platform and customer-facing layer in El Salvador. Based on the announcement, customers are not opening a standard US brokerage account to buy shares or ETFs directly. Instead, they buy a regulated tokenised product offered by Monetae, with Alpaca providing the US securities infrastructure…

Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched native $USDC and $EURC on Plasma alongside Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, or CCTP, and Bridge Kit, giving the stablecoin-focused Layer 1 first-party access to Circle-issued dollar and euro tokens and its crosschain transfer stack. Circle published mainnet contract addresses for both tokens on Aug. 28. When checked, the linked Plasmascan pages displayed a maximum total supply of 4,654,322.737666 $USDC with six holders and 12,866.64 $EURC with five holders. Circle said eligible institutional traders and teams will be able to access fiat on/offramps for $USDC payments and settlement, along with deposit, withdrawal and API functionality on Plasma.…

Bitcoin price fell below $64,000 on July 31 as renewed U.S.–Iran tensions lifted oil prices and strengthened the dollar, while its 4-hour chart formed a bearish rounded-top structure. Bitcoin price falls below key moving averages According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price dropped as much as 3.6% from its intraday high on Friday, sliding from $65,410 to a low of $62,466. It was trading near $63,155 at the time of the daily-chart snapshot, down 2.5% for the session. Bitcoin price daily chart — July 31 | Source: crypto.news The decline pushed Bitcoin below its seven-day and 25-day simple moving…

OpenAI has quietly pulled apart one of its most important internal safeguards, disbanding the team responsible for spotting the most dangerous risks its artificial intelligence models could pose. According to the Financial Times, the OpenAI team disbanded at the end of July 2026 was the company’s preparedness group, the unit tasked with flagging whether its models could be misused for things like biological weapons development or large-scale cyberattacks, and figuring out how to stop that from happening. Key takeaways OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of July 2026, according to the Financial Times. The team’s job was to…

Solana validators began voting on three proposals — two of which would reduce the amount of $SOL in circulation — on Sunday, with voting running until Thursday at about 15:30 UTC. The votes are weighted by how much $SOL is staked, meaning locked up to help run the network. That gives the say to validators, the operators who run Solana’s computers, and to ordinary holders who have handed their coins to a validator to stake on their behalf. Three new proposals are in progress on the Solana Validator Governance page. (Solana) Two of the three proposals address supply. SGP-0002 speeds…

Forget short-term price charts – Washington’s digital asset framework is the legal authorization that conservative wealth managers have been waiting for before they can put trillions to work. Everyone seems to be watching the CLARITY Act for the same thing. From retail traders to institutional giants, people are waiting for the green light that confirms Washington has clarified the market. They are watching the wrong metric. Legislation doesn’t move markets through a single, uniform mechanism. The $GENIUS Act has limitations on a single-asset framework for payment stablecoins. CLARITY works at a different layer: a horizontal market-structure bill covering how digital…

On February 21, 2025, blockchain tracking service Whale Alert reported a significant transfer of 272,040,846 $USDC from Coinbase Institutional to Coinbase. The transaction, valued at approximately $272 million, is part of routine treasury management by the exchange, reflecting normal liquidity operations rather than a market-moving event. Context of the Transfer Coinbase Institutional serves large clients, including hedge funds and asset managers, facilitating high-volume trades. Moving $USDC to the main exchange wallet is standard practice for consolidating funds, preparing for withdrawals, or rebalancing reserves. Such transfers are common in the crypto ecosystem and typically do not signal a change in market…

Aptos has announced support for Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) V2, a move that streamlines $USDC transfers across blockchain networks. The integration enables faster, more secure movement of $USDC between Aptos and other supported chains, marking a significant step in the network’s push toward broader interoperability. What CCTP V2 Brings to Aptos CCTP V2 introduces a more efficient mechanism for cross-chain $USDC transfers, reducing transaction times and lowering friction for users and developers. Unlike earlier versions, V2 optimizes the burning and minting process, allowing for near-instant finality. For Aptos, this means its ecosystem can now tap into a more robust…

VanEck’s Bitcoin ETF ends its zero-sponsor-fee period today, July 31, with $1.076 billion in net assets, equal to 43.0% of the waiver’s $2.5 billion asset threshold. The VanEck Bitcoin ETF, which trades as HODL, reported the asset figure as of July 30. It was about $1.424 billion below the threshold, meaning HODL remained fully covered by the waiver through its final day. The waiver’s mechanics are more precise than a simple cap. VanEck waived the sponsor fee on the first $2.5 billion of trust assets through July 31. Had the fund grown beyond that level before the deadline, only assets…

Defence budgets across the euro area are climbing fast, and the European Central Bank is now putting numbers behind what that shift could mean for growth, prices, debt and financial markets in the years ahead. In a speech delivered in Dublin on 17 August 2026, ECB Executive Board member Philip R. Lane laid out a detailed picture of how euro area defence spending is evolving and why its economic consequences are far from mechanical. The message is straightforward: how much countries spend on defence matters less than how they pay for it, what they buy, and how policymakers respond. Key…