Author: NBTC

For a region already deep into election-season jitters, Brazil just sent a blunt reminder: crypto and campaign coffers don’t mix. The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) publicly reiterated that political parties and candidates remain barred from accepting cryptocurrency donations, a prohibition that has been on the books since 2019. The notice, highlighted in the original report from Livecoins, isn’t a new policy—it’s a line drawn years ago that needed no fresh legislation but clearly required restating. The MPF tied its warning to a core friction point: campaign finance laws demand full traceability of every real, while the pseudonymous architecture of most…

Uniswap has added a no-code token auction tool to the Uniswap Web App, letting any team configure and launch an onchain token sale from a browser without writing code. The tool runs on Uniswap’s Continuous Clearing Auction mechanism, which conducts price discovery entirely onchain. In a CCA, bids accumulate across multiple blocks, each clearing at the same price that carries forward from the previous one. Bidders set a total budget and a maximum price per token. As blocks clear, participants receive tokens if their price is competitive, and everyone pays the same final clearing price. Because the auction distributes across…

Volatility Grips Bitcoin After Fresh YTD Low After plummeting to a fresh year-to-date (YTD) low of $58,035 Thursday morning, bitcoin rebounded to erase its 24-hour losses. While the flat net performance paints a stable picture, the daily chart tells a different story—revealing violent price swings that triggered the moment bitcoin crossed below $59,000 on Wednesday. Data shows bitcoin breached $61,000 less than three hours after tumbling to what was then its YTD low. Although it subsequently dropped below this level, the cryptocurrency traded close to it until shortly after midnight, when another rally eventually pushed it past $61,800. While it…

Ethereum is faceing increasing competition from rival blockchain ecosystems while simultaneously trying to capitalize on growing institutional demand for stablecoins, tokenized assets and onchain financial infrastructure. Yet while critics framed the week’s developments as a warning sign, some of the industry’s most influential voices argued precisely the opposite. To the optimists, the launch of EthLabs and the foundation’s downsizing are not signs of an ecosystem in retreat. Instead, they represent Ethereum’s transition into a more mature and institutionally decentralized network. “We are at the edge of something remarkable for Ethereum,” said Joseph Chalom, the CEO of SharpLink, one of the…

Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based institutional investment firm GMO, made the comments during a wide-ranging interview on Steven Bartlett’s Youtube series “The Diary of a CEO.” The interview notes that the statements are the opinions of Grantham and are “not the opinions of GMO.” He drew on six decades of market experience and a career that included managing up to $165 billion in assets at peak. The AI Bubble and What Comes Next Grantham placed AI alongside the railroads and the internet as one of the defining ideas of the last two centuries. That distinction, he argued, is exactly what…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson expressed sympathy for affected users and acknowledged the emotional toll of the losses. Speaking during a livestream yesterday, Hoskinson apologized to both the victims and the broader Cardano community over the unfortunate breach at SecondFi (formerly Yoroi Wallet), which resulted in the theft of 16 million $ADA. According to him, many victims may have lost most or all of their $ADA holdings, making the financial and emotional consequences severe regardless of the overall value involved. Hoskinson Reflects on Previous Crypto Hacks Hoskinson described the incident as an unfortunate reality of the cryptocurrency industry, noting that security…

In brief Catholic leaders urged the Senate to oppose a portion of the Clarity Act, warning it could enable human trafficking and other illicit finance. Protections for decentralized software developers could shield tools used for money laundering, the leaders said. The Clarity Act is facing opposition from multiple directions as boosters seek to pass it in the coming weeks. The crypto industry’s long-coveted Clarity Act has attracted plenty of opponents in recent months, among them Wall Street leaders, consumer advocates, law enforcement groups, and Native American tribes. Now, the market structure bill has attracted the ire of a new and…

The move by Blockchain.com to build a dedicated institutional payments corridor into Brazil is not simply a new office opening. It arrives at a moment when LatAm’s largest economy is drawing serious infrastructure investment from crypto-native firms tired of competing for retail-only volumes. According to the original report, the company is rolling out a cross-border liquidity solution tailored for institutions, though specific settlement rails and banking partners were not disclosed. Brazil already sits among the top ten countries for crypto adoption. A large unbanked population, persistent inflation hedging behavior, and the success of the Pix instant payment system have created…

While Western financial media has spent much of 2026 tracking Bitcoin’s crash from its October 2025 all-time high near $126,000, Trezor Academy has released a documentary that documents a different story. Seeding Bitcoin: Trezor Academy and Africa’s Bitcoin Revolution follows educators, merchants, and community members across Sub-Saharan Africa who are using Bitcoin not as a speculative asset but as a functional monetary tool. The film captures Bitcoin education centers in South Africa where students as young as teenagers complete a Bitcoin diploma course and receive weekly rewards in bitcoin, which some use to buy groceries for their families. It profiles…

Ethlabs, a new Ethereum research lab backed by the network’s two largest corporate holders, launched this week with a pitch to complement the Ethereum Foundation. Its own funders concede it will also compete as Ethlabs is “playing to win.” “I think they will be complementary,” Joseph Chalom, chief executive of Sharplink and a former longtime BlackRock executive, said of Ethlabs and the Foundation on a livestream The Defiant hosted this week. He then added that the two would “over time” be “in some ways overlapping,” with “the densest talent” concentrated at Ethlabs. Where the Mandates Meet The overlap is visible…