Author: NBTC

President Donald Trump’s $1.4 billion in crypto earnings from 2025 have returned to the political spotlight after Sen. Elizabeth Warren renewed criticism of his business activities during his second term. Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that cryptocurrency ventures became a major source of income, including hundreds of millions of dollars linked to the Official Trump memecoin and World Liberty Financial. Warren cited those earnings alongside other Trump-related business arrangements while arguing that Congress should address possible conflicts involving elected officials and digital assets. Warren Renews Focus on Trump’s Business Activities Warren highlighted Trump’s cryptocurrency income, which disclosures showed exceeded $1.4…

A Hyperliquid testnet deployer using Kraken’s name has whitelisted 10 wallets and tested three compliance controls, raising the possibility that the centralized exchange has been experimenting with a permissioned HIP-3 market. Blockworks analyst Shaunda Devens reported on Aug. 22 that a deployer called “Kraken HIP-3 test DEX” had activated a permission system known as Star gating on Hyperliquid’s testnet on Aug. 19. Will Kraken Be the First Compliant HIP-3 Deployer?In line with the regulatory approach we just laid out, Hyperliquid keeps adding testnet functions that would enable compliant use. In addition to whitelisting, new observed features would allow a deployer…

Circle issued a warning that the quantum circuits needed to attack widely used blockchain signatures are becoming leaner, citing a low-width record of 813 logical qubits. For the $USDC quantum migration, the immediate consequence is a dependency problem across every host chain, wallet, custodian, bridge and user account that must eventually accept a safer way to authorize transactions. Circle’s current contract documentation contains 37 mainnet $USDC rows. The company can protect infrastructure it controls and exercise token-contract powers on supported networks, but it cannot rotate a customer’s private key, rewrite a custodian’s signing stack or unilaterally change the signature rules…

Bitwise Asset Management launched the PAPY real-world asset lending vault on Morpho on September 2. According to the company announcement, users deposit Agora’s $AUSD stablecoin while the vault lends against approved tokenized collateral. Bitwise is targeting a variable annual percentage yield of 5%–6%, but says that estimate can change with borrower demand and protocol utilization. PAPY Uses Whitelisted Tokenized Collateral Borrowers must post assets from a predetermined collateral list. The initial set includes PST, sUSDai and PRIME, giving depositors exposure to several real-world credit structures rather than one crypto-native collateral type. Loans are overcollateralized, according to Bitwise, and interest rates…

Europe’s largest asset manager, Amundi, has significantly increased its exposure to Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), boosting its shareholdings by 148% to reach 1.32 million shares. The move, reported by Cointelegraph, underscores a growing institutional appetite for companies with substantial Bitcoin treasury reserves. Amundi’s Strategic Expansion Amundi’s decision to nearly triple its position in Strategy (MSTR) signals a notable shift in how traditional asset managers perceive Bitcoin-related equities. As of the latest filing, Amundi holds 1.32 million shares, a substantial increase from its previous position. This aligns with a broader trend of European institutional investors gradually warming to digital assets, despite regulatory…

$XRP Trading Develops a Weekday Rush Hour $XRP treasury company Evernorth shared Aug. 18 that weekday on-chain activity increasingly concentrates between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time. Its X thread linked the shift with growing institutional interest, placing nearly one-quarter of weekday on-chain $XRP volume inside the three-hour overlap between London’s afternoon and New York’s morning. Evernorth stated: “$XRP’s on-chain market has been growing during banker hours, according to ledger data we looked at last week. It’s consistent with growing institutional interest.” “Three hours a day (London’s afternoon, New York’s morning) now carry ~23% of all the $XRP…

India’s long-awaited crypto regulation plans are facing another major challenge as a key parliamentary hearing was cancelled. The hearing with the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) was originally scheduled for today to discuss the country’s approach to virtual digital assets (VDAs). Now, the hearing is cancelled, with no new date confirmed yet. This delay adds to the uncertainty in India’s crypto regulation space. While the country’s current VDA rules largely focus on taxation and AML regulations, there is still no clarity on the asset class’ broader regulatory framework. India’s Crypto Regulation Has Hit Another Delay Indian crypto industry has been…

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, has added four new assets to its official listing roadmap: $BASECAT, DRB, POD, and $GRASS. The announcement, made on the company’s public roadmap page, signals that the exchange is actively evaluating these tokens for potential full listing. While inclusion on the roadmap does not guarantee immediate trading availability, it is a significant step in the listing process and often precedes a formal launch. What Is the Coinbase Listing Roadmap? The listing roadmap is a public list of digital assets that Coinbase is considering for listing. It provides transparency into…

Chainlink announced again on Tuesday, September 1, about its data feeds that relay official US economic figures across ten public blockchains. It enables blockchains to have access to GDP, inflation, and private spending, but the agreement started in August 2025. Chainlink crypto connects blockchains with government data The figures come from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis [BEA], which publishes some of the country’s most closely watched economic reports. Through its work with the US Department of Commerce, Chainlink makes three measures available to blockchain applications: real GDP, the Personal Consumption Expenditures [PCE] Price Index and real final sales to…

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 on Tuesday as traders reduced risk before the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision, while ETF outflows and leveraged liquidations added to selling pressure. Bitcoin price falls below rising trendline According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price opened Tuesday near $63,706 and extended its decline toward $63,327 as traders cut exposure before the Fed decision. $BTC later traded around $63,858, leaving it down roughly 2.5% during the session. The 4-hour chart shows that Bitcoin broke below an ascending trendline that had supported the recovery from its late-June low near $58,000. Price attempted to move back above the…