Author: NBTC

A redemption that used to take days cleared in about five seconds. The names in the room matter more than the speed, and the question for $XRP holders is where the token actually sits in the flow. On June 12, JPMorgan, Mastercard, Ondo Finance, and Ripple completed a test that moved a tokenized United States Treasury through a full redemption on the $XRP Ledger. The settlement finished in roughly five seconds. The same operation on traditional rails takes three to five business days. crypto.news shared the result the day it happened, and within hours the $XRP community had folded it…

A7A5 says it processes billions. Blockchain analytics firms say the numbers don’t add up. The sanctioned ruble-backed stablecoin has been insisting that major crypto data providers are underreporting its true trading activity. When you cross-check the claim against on-chain flows, however, the picture looks very different. The mismatch isn’t academic. It cuts to a core tension in crypto market structure right now: self-reported volume versus verifiable data. In the case of A7A5, the original report details how several blockchain intelligence firms tracked a sharp decline in A7A5’s actual transaction volumes this year, even as the project’s public statements painted a…

Peter Schiff has sharpened his criticism of Bitcoin and Strategy this week, pointing to a series of data points he says prove gold has decisively outperformed Bitcoin over the past five years while Strategy’s stock continues to unravel. Schiff said that since Bitcoin’s November 2021 peak, the cryptocurrency has fallen 60% when measured in gold terms. He acknowledged that gold itself is down 28% from its own record high, but argued the comparison still decisively favours the precious metal. “Despite all Wall Street’s hype that Bitcoin is better than gold, gold outshone it,” he wrote. Strategy Stock Below $85.50, STRC…

Preliminary data released Monday showed South Korea’s exports climbed 60.4% from a year earlier for the first 20 days of June. So far, adjusted exports surged nearly 50%, almost matching May’s hot pace of 52.6%. The surge, driven largely by artificial intelligence (AI) demand, has not only elevated the country’s trade surplus but is also increasingly drawing investor money away from risk assets like cryptocurrencies. Recent trade data shows South Korea’s exports climbing at some of the fastest rates in modern history. The nation’s exports have totaled $62 billion, up from $38.6 billion in the same period of 2025, according…

Shiba Inu is facing renewed selling pressure after one of the token’s earliest and largest holders resumed his distribution campaign. Arkham has indexed a series of large transfers linked to a wallet widely known for accumulating $SHIB during the project’s earliest days. The wallet possesses the tag “$13,752 bought 103 trillion $SHIB,” reflecting his early acquisition of the prominent meme coin. On Monday, the whale moved approximately 600 billion $SHIB, worth roughly $2.83 million at the time, to the ForwarderV4 wallet, an address associated with distribution activity. Whale Sells 600B $SHIB/Arkham Notably, the transaction came at a time when Shiba…

The bill is on the calendar, the House has promised to move fast, and the committee fight is over. Everything now comes down to a single number: whether Senate leadership can find seven Democratic votes before the August recess. Here is the math that decides crypto’s biggest law. As of mid-June 2026, the CLARITY Act, the most comprehensive crypto market-structure bill ever to advance in the United States, has reached the stage where only one thing stands between it and becoming law: votes. On June 1, the bill was formally placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar as Calendar No. 423,…

Ripple Partner Securitize Goes Public, Marking a Major Milestone for Tokenized Finance Ripple’s strategic partner, Securitize, has made history by becoming Wall Street’s first publicly listed tokenization company, marking a significant milestone in the convergence of blockchain technology and traditional finance. Market analyst Diana described the listing as a defining moment for the rapidly growing real-world asset (RWA) tokenization industry. She argued that it underscores rising institutional confidence in blockchain-based financial infrastructure and signals that tokenization is moving beyond experimentation into mainstream finance. Securitize has emerged as one of the leading platforms for tokenizing traditional financial assets, enabling institutions to…

Bitcoin may still be far from its ultimate market bottom, according to fresh analysis from on-chain analyst Ki Young Ju, who said traditional cycle indicators are not yet signaling a full capitulation phase. Using a long-term logarithmic chart, Ju said Bitcoin’s current structure does not resemble previous cycle bottoms. Historically, every major Bitcoin bear market eventually pushed prices close to the realized price, the average cost basis of all investors. While Bitcoin is moving closer to those levels, Ju says the market has not fully reached the point that historically marked major bottoms. According to Ju, Bitcoin’s risk-to-reward profile improves…

Musashi Dojo is the public testnet for Ouroboros Leios, Cardano’s (@Cardano) next major scaling upgrade. It went live on June 23, 2026, kicking off a multi-phase program to test the Leios prototype before a planned mainnet upgrade later this year. The launch is the first time Leios has run on a public network rather than in simulations. It gives stake pool operators and developers a place to break the new system before it ships. Here is how it works, and what each phase is meant to prove. What is the Leios upgrade? Ouroboros Leios is an optimistic consensus protocol that…

The Irish Government has released the 2026 National Risk Assessment (NRA), alongside an action plan to strengthen responses to Money Laundering (ML), Terrorist Financing (TF), and Proliferation Financing (PF). The assessment classifies crypto assets as a very significant ML and TF risk and introduces a 30-point action plan to enhance regulatory and enforcement responses. Ireland Publishes 2026 National Risk Assessment on Financial Crime On 18 June 2026, Ireland’s Department of Finance published the National Risk Assessment Ireland 2026 – Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing. This comprehensive update is prepared with input from the Anti-Money Laundering Steering Committee, law…