Author: NBTC

Bearish chatter around Bitcoin [$BTC] peaked on the 31st of July as the asset tumbled from a high of $65,409 to $62,466 that same day and slid lower still on the 1st of August. The gloom has not fully held up, though, and Bitcoin has since rebounded off its low to climb back above $64,000 in the early hours of Tuesday. There was more behind the sell-off than price action, and much of the bearish mood grew out of concerns over the Coldcard hardware wallet hack. Short-term holders led Bitcoin’s early sell-off Short-term holders (STH)—investors who hold Bitcoin for fewer…

Ethereum node operators now have an active public network for rehearsing Glamsterdam’s coordinated execution- and consensus-client upgrade. Platåberget has an open, permissionless validator set, turning the upgrade into a practical test of whether client pairs, validators, builders, and supporting infrastructure continue to work together. The ethPandaOps-maintained network launched Aug. 13 and is expected to remain available until Glamsterdam reaches mainnet. For application work, the official page directs decentralized application, smart contract, and other EVM testing to Sepolia. Platåberget focuses on client software, staking setups, builders, and infrastructure. What Ethereum operators need to test The Glamsterdam roadmap says node operators will…

Trading activity on Shibarium-based decentralized exchanges (DEXs) is showing signs of recovery after daily volume surged by more than 1,500% within 24 hours. According to data from DeFiLlama, Shibarium’s DEX trading volume jumped 1,517%, rising from just $17 on July 9 to $275 on July 10. Notably, Shiba Inu’s native decentralized exchange, ShibaSwap, accounted for the entire $275 in trading volume. Although the figure remains insignificant compared to rival blockchain ecosystems that process tens of millions of dollars in daily DEX volume, the increase represents a notable improvement from Shibarium’s recent performance. Trading Volume Recovers After Weeks of Inactivity The…

Dubai entity Flowdesk Omega FZE, a subsidiary of French-headquartered Flowdesk, a liquidity provider and virtual asset trading technology firm backed by BlackRock, Cathawy innovation, and Coinbase ventures, has received a crypto brokerage dealer license from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). As per the announcement, Flowdesk in the UAE will be able to offer digital asset or crypto broker-dealer services to qualified and institutional investors in and from Dubai, UAE. This follows the in-principle approval received just two months ago in June 2026. Guilhem Chaumont, co-founder and CEO of Flowdesk Group, noted that the license from VARA Dubai is a…

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy has raised two concerns about Hyperliquid’s future: regulation and throughput. His comments come as Hyperliquid ($HYPE) seeks a regulated route to bring its perpetual futures to U.S. users. Regulation Could Change Hyperliquid Gaevoy’s first concern is what happens if U.S. regulations become stricter under a future administration. He questioned whether Hyperliquid could eventually be forced to introduce KYC requirements or restrict users from sanctioned jurisdictions. “If Hyperliquid becomes like KYC-able, like, okay, then it’s just another exchange.”He said. The concern is that heavier compliance could change what makes Hyperliquid different from traditional centralized exchanges. At the…

The United States joined Japan’s effort to support the yen after preliminary central-bank data indicated Tokyo may have deployed almost $96 billion over two days, putting Bitcoin traders on alert for a possible unwind of positions financed with cheap Japanese capital. On Aug. 3, Japan’s Ministry of Finance confirmed that it purchased yen in coordination with the US Treasury on July 31 to counter months of “excessive volatility and disorderly movements.” According to Reuters, the Bank of Japan may have spent as much as $58.97 billion during an initial intervention last Thursday and another $36.58 billion during last Friday’s coordinated…

Vitalik Buterin has published the last post in his series on indistinguishability obfuscation, this time looking at a method called local mixing. The Ethereum co-founder describes how the method can alter the way a computer program is structured without changing what it does. Local mixing takes a different route from the techniques discussed in his earlier posts and uses ideas from symmetric cryptography. My third (and last) post in my series on obfuscation (iO): local mixinghttps://t.co/Du1c052w1ZLocal mixing is a very different philosophy from the other two, no prior background in lattices required, and very different tradeoffs (eg. in terms of…

The FIFA World Cup quarterfinals are concentrating crypto attention around a smaller group of teams and projects. Chiliz, Avalanche, national-team fan tokens, Solana, and Chainlink offer the clearest links between tournament activity and the digital asset market. France and Spain have already reached the semifinals. Norway would face England on July 11, followed by Argentina against Switzerland, leaving two quarterfinals that could still influence football-linked trading. Bitcoin Stability Shapes Sports-Linked Token Activity Bitcoin continues to be the first major crypto asset that needs to be tracked during the quarterfinal window. This crypto asset has no connection with football, but it…

Investment bank TD Securities has said that the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act has a slim chance of getting passed in a Monday note, citing last week’s delay and potential stalling from the Democrats. The bank said that now the bill won’t be passed before the summer, it only has a 25% of getting passed in September. Lawmakers were hoping a crucial vote on the long-awaited crypto market structure bill was to go ahead before a five-week recess but news dropped last week that there was a delay and now the Senate will vote on the bill in September. “The bill…

Binance Web3 Wallet has expanded its meme coin launchpad, Meme Rush, to support Pools Trade, a new launchpad platform built on Uniswap and operating on the Robinhood Chain. The integration enables Binance Wallet users to discover and trade new meme coin projects launched through Pools Trade directly within the Robinhood Chain ecosystem. What Does the Integration Mean for Users? For users of Binance Web3 Wallet, the addition of Pools Trade means a broader selection of early-stage meme coin tokens. Previously, Meme Rush supported projects on other networks, but the Robinhood Chain has been gaining traction among retail traders due to…