Author: NBTC

Most companies move payroll funds into a wallet or bank account and let them sit. For distributed teams running global payroll, that can mean tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in $USDC sitting idle for days or weeks between funding and disbursement, earning nothing. At the same time, DeFi protocols like Aave have been generating meaningful yield on stablecoin deposits for years. The problem is that accessing that yield has historically required crypto-native knowledge: self-custody wallets, bridging between networks, managing gas fees, and navigating protocol interfaces that weren’t built for business operators. Rise Earn closes that gap. It lets…

SoFi Technologies reported strong first-quarter results, with profit and revenue surpassing expectations, but its shares fell sharply after the company issued a slightly weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. The financial services firm said it expects adjusted revenue growth of around 30% in the second quarter, just below analyst estimates of 31%. The cautious guidance appeared to dampen investor sentiment, sending shares down by over 12% in early trading on Wednesday. While the company reaffirmed its full-year outlook, it stopped short of raising its forecast despite the upbeat quarterly performance, which some investors had anticipated. Strong growth in lending and…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has turned the spotlight on a very different corner of artificial intelligence: translation that happens entirely on-device, without sending sensitive text to the cloud. In a recent post, Ardoino framed the issue around privacy, speed, and practicality. His point was simple enough, but it touches a problem that millions of users encounter every day. When someone translates a medical note, a private message, a legal contract, or even a personal journal entry through a cloud service, that text leaves the device and enters someone else’s infrastructure. In many cases, users do not fully know where the…

In a groundbreaking move to build secure, privacy-preserving, and verifiable workflows that operate efficiently across various DeFi ecosystems, TradingRazor, an AI-native trading decision platform built for multi-chain markets, today entered into a strategic integration with Manadia, a data settlement and AI coordination infrastructure. Using this tech incorporation, TradingRazor combines with Manadia to ensure that AI-driven applications in its DeFi analytics and trading platform are supported by reliable, transparent, and low-trust data settlement and AI coordination infrastructure designed to enable trusted execution across on-chain and off-chain systems. TradingRazor is an AI-driven signal analysis platform that serves the needs of multi-chain DeFi…

“It makes nothing but sense” for assets like collectible trading cards to become tokenized and traded onchain, OpenSea Chief Marketing Officer Adam Hollander said during an interview with The Block’s Gareth Jenkinson at Consensus Miami. Hollander argued that NFTs remain a valid technology for proving ownership of digital and physical assets, despite the crash in the values of profile-picture collections like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks. “I think that we will see a resurgence,” Hollander said. “But I think it might look a little different when we do than what people saw back in 2021 and 2022.” According to Hollander, the…

Ethereum captures 71.9% of all tokenized fund assets — and BlackRock just filed to make that lead nearly impossible to close. Recently, BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager overseeing $14 trillion — submitted two new filings to the SEC. It proposes to launch tokenized share classes for its $7 billion Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and a new BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle. Both products will run on Ethereum using ERC-20 tokens. The infrastructure for institutional finance is being built — and it is being built on one chain. Wall Street Didn’t Arrive Here Overnight In 2021,…

The shares of Twenty One Capital (XXI), the bitcoin-focused firm, are up over 8% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after majority shareholder Tether Investments proposed a merger with Strike and Elektron Energy. Tether Investment, the independent investment arm of the stablecoin issuer, said it intends to vote its shares in favor of combining XXI with Strike, a global bitcoin financial services company founded by Jack Mallers and Elektron Energy, according to a press release. Mallers is also the CEO of XXI. “If completed, these transactions would position XXI to become the premier listed Bitcoin company in the world: a public…

$XRP has once again come to the forefront after being cited as an example of a commodity in the guidance document published by the SEC and CFTC, while important statements have come from the CEO of Ripple Prime. In an interview with Jake Claver of Digital Ascension Group, Ripple Prime CEO Mike Higgins stated that $XRP could be used as institutional collateral. Ripple Prime’s CEO stated that $XRP is being used as collateral for institutional transactions. According to Higgins, institutions are now actively using $XRP as collateral to access traditional financial markets. This statement comes after community criticism that Ripple,…

OP Succinct data confidentiality is being positioned as a new way for institutions to keep transaction data private while still settling around Ethereum. The upgrade matters because it targets one of blockchain’s oldest institutional problems: how to use public-chain infrastructure without exposing sensitive customer activity. That tension has shaped adoption for years. Financial firms want faster settlement, programmable assets, and access to onchain liquidity, but they also operate under regulatory and fiduciary obligations that make open transaction visibility hard to accept. OP Succinct’s latest move tries to thread that needle. The pitch is simple: institutions can run chains while keeping…

As discussions about technical analysis continue in the cryptocurrency markets, experienced trader Peter Brandt issued a noteworthy warning regarding the Bitcoin chart. Brandt, in his assessment made on the social media platform X, stated that Bitcoin has formed a “rising wedge” pattern. This formation, frequently observed in technical analysis, typically appears during an uptrend and is often considered a sell signal indicating a potential trend reversal. Brandt stated that the formation of this structure strengthens the likelihood of a downward movement in the markets. The analyst specifically pointed out that the $65,000 level is a critical support point. A break…