Author: NBTC

United States President Donald Trump has marketed himself as the president who truly embraced bitcoin ($BTC), but has his willingness to cooperate with the industry resulted in price appreciation compared to previous administrations? Protos used data from CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap to plot $BTC’s relative performance up to this point during Barack Obama’s second term, Trump’s first term, Joe Biden’s term, and Trump’s second term. Read more: ANALYSIS: Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are cashing in on crypto The best performance at this point was in Trump’s first term, which saw $BTC appreciate from less than $900 to nearly $8,500, an…

For a decade, the crypto industry has gathered at Consensus to discuss what was coming next. This year, something different is happening. The future has started arriving. Real-world assets are being minted onchain. Stablecoins are quietly becoming the connective tissue of global commerce. Prediction markets are turning probability into a tradable asset class. The institutions that once dismissed all of this – Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, the NYSE, DTCC, SWIFT, Franklin Templeton – are now sending their senior people to Miami to talk about how they fit in. When Consensus 2026 convenes May 5–7 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, it…

PIPPIN, a Solana-based AI agency memecoin created by the founder of Baby AGI, Yohel Nakajima, just experienced one of the sharpest crashes in its history today, March 17, 2025. Apparently, over 50 coordinated whale accounts that had been quietly accumulating PIPPIN tokens over the last week suddenly began selling their assets all at once, sending the token from around $0.35 to less than $0.15 within the day. CoinGecko confirmed that PIPPIN had fallen almost 60% during the 24-hour window, with about $200 million in market cap wiped out in the process, thus sending the token out of the top 200…

Poland’s lower house of parliament just passed a government-backed bill to bring the country’s crypto market under EU regulation. The vote was 241 to 200, and it happened on the third try, because the first two attempts were killed by presidential vetoes. The legislation, known as the Crypto-Asset Market Act, would implement the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework in Poland. It designates the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, known as the KNF, as the primary watchdog over digital-asset activities in the country. Third time’s the charm, maybe Here’s the thing. Passing the Sejm is only half the battle.…

Peaq (PEAQ), a Layer 1 blockchain network dedicated to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN), has integrated its peaqOS into LG’s ‘CLOiSim’ robot simulation environment, according to an announcement made via X. This integration enables robots operating within the simulation to autonomously handle service coordination and transaction settlements, with payments processed in $USDT using peaqOS and the Tether Wallet Development Kit (WDK). What the Integration Means for Robot Autonomy The integration of peaqOS into LG’s CLOiSim platform represents a practical step toward embedding decentralized payment and coordination capabilities into robotic systems. CLOiSim is LG’s simulation environment for testing and developing robot behaviors…

Bitcoin structure is showing signs of short-term weakness, as fresh order book data highlights an imbalance between overhead resistance and lower support liquidity. Data shared by CoinGlass reveals that large players, or whales, have positioned strong sell orders above current price levels. At the same time, buy-side liquidity remains layered below. Heavy Bitcoin Sell Wall Caps Upside According to the whale order book, a dense cluster of sell orders sits between $72,300 and $72,600, forming a major resistance zone. This area represents a key hurdle for any upward movement, with significant supply likely to absorb bullish momentum on a bounce.…

$XRP is entering a phase of financial utility that most retail investors have not yet grasped. According to Mike Higgins, CEO of Ripple Prime, institutions are now actively using $XRP as collateral to access traditional financial markets, a development that quietly bridges the gap between digital assets and the infrastructure that moves trillions of dollars globally every day. The Moment That Changes Everything The practical example Higgins used to explain the shift is worth understanding in full. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s largest derivatives markets, does not currently accept $XRP as margin. That has historically meant institutions…

The cryptocurrency industry is nearing a major legislative milestone following the Senate Banking Committee’s advancement of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Proponents argue the bill is necessary for consumer protection and market innovation, but political analysts note that the industry’s success in Congress is largely driven by an unprecedented wave of campaign spending and targeted political lobbying. Prominent political analyst Brendan Pedersen claims that the sector has used substantial campaign finance to change electoral dynamics nationwide. Despite being a fraction of the size of traditional finance and lacking a broad public mandate, the crypto industry has successfully pushed for…

Today DMND and RootstockLabs announce a new feature rollout intending to further the decentralization of Bitcoin mining. The new feature uses Stratum V2 to enable miners at the pool engaging in their own block template construction to also handle the selection and inclusion of merge-mined block commitments from the Rootstock (RSK) sidechain as well. Merge-mining is a process by which multiple blockchains can share, or “reuse”, the same POW from the same set of miners. One blockchain, the child chain, structures its block headers to include the headers of the parent chain, i.e. the hash of the child chain’s block…

Arkham Intelligence announced it is removing support for the $TON blockchain from its on-chain analytics platform. The decision, posted on X on May 12, 2026, cites a periodic review of chain integrations with user demand and ecosystem importance as the key criteria. The timing is hard to ignore. $TON just had one of its biggest weeks in years. What Arkham Said Arkham cited user demand and the blockchain’s importance to the crypto ecosystem as the evaluation factors behind the decision, framing it as part of a regular review of which chains warrant continued maintenance and support. No specific data was…