Author: NBTC

Bybit has opened a dedicated account type that lets AI trading bots operate inside a walled-off space, separate from a client’s main funds. The crypto exchange is pitching the feature, which it calls the AI Subaccount, at developers and traders across the Middle East and North Africa. The launch lands in the middle of a fast-moving shift. Over the first half of 2026, at least ten retail brokers and platform vendors wired AI agents into live client accounts, according to a FM Intelligence study, most of them running on the same open plumbing. Bybit’s move pulls a crypto exchange into…

The Screws Tighten Onchain data shows that on June 26, 2026, at block height 955,584, Bitcoin’s difficulty rating rose 7.15% after the prior epoch’s 10.09% decline. The adjustment means discovering a block is now 7.15% more difficult than it was before block 955,584 and the 2,016 blocks that preceded it. The increase lifts the difficulty to 133.87 trillion. When Satoshi mined the genesis block, the network required a guess beginning with roughly eight leading zeros in hexadecimal to qualify as valid. Today, at a difficulty of 133.87 trillion, a valid hash needs about 22 leading zeros. Each additional leading zero…

The long-accepted “4-year cycle” theory in cryptocurrency markets is frequently questioned by investors during each bull or bear season. In its latest report, the popular analytics company The DeFi Report examines why Bitcoin persistently follows this 4-year timeline and why the market consistently misinterprets this cycle. One of the strongest points highlighted in the report was that ignoring market cycles consistently misleads investors. It noted that those who declared “This time it’s different because institutional capital has entered” during bull markets or “Bitcoin is dead, it was all a Ponzi scheme” during bear markets have been wrong four times in…

Ethereum is holding near a multi-year support line, but short-term weakness keeps the risk of a drop toward $1,460 alive. A strong rebound above $1,740 could shift momentum and reopen the path toward its $4,850 resistance zone. Ethereum Slips Below $1,740 as Bears Threaten a New Low Ethereum has fallen back below a key technical level after briefly recovering from its February lows, keeping the wider downtrend intact. $ETH/USDT 12-Hour Key-Level Chart. Source: CRYPTOWZRD (@cryptoWZRD_) on X The 12-hour chart shows $ETH trading near $1,670, below the horizontal resistance around $1,740. Price also failed to break the descending trendline, where…

Solmate Infrastructure has lost about 98% of its market value since ARK Invest and Abu Dhabi-based Pulsar Group backed a $300m financing tied to its Solana treasury plan. The Nasdaq-listed company, formerly Brera Holdings, traded near $4.72 on Friday after its sharp post-pivot selloff. The company had run a football holding business with stakes across Italy, North Macedonia, Mozambique and Mongolia. It changed course in 2025, raising capital to build a Solana treasury and crypto infrastructure business in the United Arab Emirates. As previously reported, Solmate launched with $300m to establish a Solana treasury in the UAE with backing from…

A post in the $XRP community has claimed $XRP was created in 1988, far ahead of Bitcoin. The post cited a U.S. patent filed by Ripple’s former Chief Technology Officer, David Schwartz, years before Bitcoin existed. However, former Ripple director Matt Hamilton and XRPL validator Vet rejected the claim. They said the patent has no connection to $XRP or blockchain technology. Patent Is Unrelated to $XRP The discussion began after X user “Crypto Dyl News” shared an image of U.S. Patent No. 5,025,369. The patent was originally filed in 1988 by David Schwartz for a distributed computer system. The post…

A group of US Senate Democrats is urging Senate Republican leaders to hold hearings into a reported $500 million deal between the Trump family’s crypto firm and Abu Dhabi royalty. In a letter on Tuesday, the Democrats told Republicans, who control the Senate, lead its committees and decide on hearings, that they should “immediately hold hearings” into the deal and have Trump administration officials testify about it under oath. The Wall Street Journal reported in January that an Abu Dhabi investment company backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, signed a deal…

Japanese crypto exchange subsidiary SBI VC Trade has significantly reduced trading costs for $XRP traders. The company has lowered the standard spread on $XRP/JPY leveraged trading to 0.5 yen for a limited time. SBI says the offer provides the narrowest spread in the industry. The promotion aims to encourage more Japanese investors to participate in leveraged $XRP trading. $XRP Leverage Trading Support Week Begins According to SBI VC Trade, the campaign runs from June 22 to July 3, 2026. The offer comes under the banner “Breaking the Spread Limit! $XRP/JPY Leverage Trading Support Week.” During the promotion, traders using the…

Bitcoin is trading just above $60,000 right now, and the network’s estimated all-in cost to produce a single coin is near $84,300, so the gap between the two is roughly a quarter, leaving mining underwater on a full-cost basis across much of the network. For years, the assumption was that this simply couldn’t happen, that production cost set a hard floor under the price, the thinking being that Bitcoin miners would switch off and the market would catch itself well before Bitcoin price fell that far below what it costs to make a coin. And yet the price has now…

Bitcoin’s [$BTC] calm did not last long. In fact, the latest dip has pushed $BTC below the $60K-mark. The bright side though? Despite its weak price, the big players look like they’re going nowhere. Chaos on the way for Bitcoin? Bitcoin was trading at around $59.5K at the time of writing, after losing the $60K-level. The $63K-support zone from earlier in the week has already failed in the short term. Source: Cryptoquant The exchange netflow chart looked positive though, with 2.6K $BTC. More $BTC was still coming into exchanges than out, even after the correction below $60K. This is important.…