Author: NBTC

9 April 2026 – The QVAC team at Tether today announced the launch of QVAC SDK, a fully open-source cross-platform Software Development Kit designed to become a universal Artificial Intelligence building block, in a world where, soon, 10 billion humans will share this planet with 10 billion autonomous machines and a trillion AI agents. We call it the “Stable Intelligence Era”.At Tether, we are building the foundational layer for the next era of compute. We see AI as a new element of the periodic table – a raw material that can be embedded into the very fabric of the universe.…

SBI Holdings’ digital asset arm, SBI VC Trade, said it will launch a $USDC lending service in Japan on Thursday, allowing retail users to lend stablecoins to the platform under fixed-term agreements in exchange for returns. On Wednesday, the company said users will be able to lend Circle’s $USDC ($USDC) stablecoin to the platform and receive interest payments, with a maximum application of 5,000 $USDC per offering. The product is structured as a loan to SBI VC Trade rather than a deposit, meaning users take direct counterparty risk. SBI said it may also re-lend the borrowed $USDC as part of…

U.S. prosecutors have pushed back against a key legal argument raised by Roman Storm, intensifying the legal battle over whether developers of decentralized tools can be held criminally liable. In a letter filed on 7 April, the U.S. Department of Justice told the court that a recent Supreme Court ruling cited by Storm’s defense is not relevant to the charges in the case, which include money laundering, sanctions violations, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The response follows a filing by Storm’s legal team on 2 April. It sought to use the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v.…

“I am happy to bet $1 billion USD,” Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) told OKX founder Star Xu, “that: I am officially divorced.” That escalated quickly. With one of the largest peer-to-peer bets ever publicly offered, the Binance-OKX feud went nuclear this week. As if the bet wasn’t interesting enough on its face, according to Xu’s responses, gambling isn’t legal for United Arab Emirates residents, yet polygamy is. For context, CZ worked at Xu’s crypto exchange, OKCoin, but left under contested circumstances before creating Binance. The two exchanges have been fierce competitors ever since, with periodic public spats over listings…

In a significant development for institutional blockchain adoption, the Pyth Network has officially launched its Pyth Data Marketplace, a platform fundamentally designed to bridge traditional finance with decentralized ecosystems. This launch, announced globally, is notably backed by six heavyweight financial institutions: Fidelity Investments, Euronext, Tradeweb, the FX data division under SGX, OTC Markets Group, and Exchange Data International. Consequently, this move signals a growing institutional trust in blockchain-based data solutions and aims to solve long-standing issues of data accessibility and reliability in digital asset markets. Pyth Network Data Marketplace Core Functionality The Pyth Data Marketplace serves as a specialized conduit…

Ethereum exchange reserves have fallen to a record low, even as the token trades near $2,15 and still struggles to break out. CryptoQuant data shows reserves are down about 77% from their 2021 peak, while CoinGlass data points to a surge in futures activity, with volume topping close to $50 billion in 24 hours. Exchange Balances Keep Sliding The long slide in exchange balances has been building for years. According to CryptoQuant analyst Rich_dady, the decline has accelerated since late 2025, and the gap between price and reserve levels suggests that coins are still leaving exchanges at a fast pace.…

Vanity Fair just published an embarrassing profile of crypto’s self-described “true believers,” complete with a photoshoot at a $300 million Lower East Side hotel. Its headline read “Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously.” The internet, however, did the exact opposite. The feature profiles Mike Novogratz of Galaxy Digital, OpenSea co-founder Devin Finzer, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes (off-camera), ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood, Polychain Capital’s Olaf Carlson-Wee, and others. Some brought personal hair and makeup teams. Danny Ryan bragged about pants with a hole in the crotch. Novogratz made sure to tell the story of a 4am nightclub hangover. Meltem…

A cryptocurrency venture tied to U.S. President Donald Trump is facing fresh scrutiny after partnering with a firm whose “flagship project” had recently involved individuals later sanctioned by the U.S. and U.K. , a crypto business co-founded by Trump and partly owned by his family, said it carried out due diligence before integrating its USD1 stablecoin with the Southeast Asia-based blockchain project AB DAO. However, a Times investigation released on Monday found the company was unaware that AB DAO had, until weeks earlier, promoted a resort project linked to figures associated with Cambodia’s Prince Group, an organization U.S. authorities have…

In brief Exodus launches Exodus Pay, a feature that lets users spend crypto directly from its wallet app. The rollout is limited to five U.S. states, including New York and California. The company says the feature aims to reduce reliance on third-party payment platforms. Exodus, the publicly traded crypto wallet provider, began rolling out a new “Exodus Pay” feature on Wednesday, aiming to turn its self-custodial storage app into a tool for everyday payments. The launch is currently limited to users in five states, including New York and California. The Omaha-based firm listed its stock on the New York Stock…

At TezDev 2026, Arthur Breitman reiterated his longstanding belief that crypto’s next frontier is tokenized commodities, unveiling uranium and metals tokens as the start of a broader ‘periodic‑table roadmap’. What if the future of on-chain science were built directly on the periodic table, with each element not just a chemical symbol but a programmable asset, a collateral primitive, and a market in its own right? If every element is a programmable asset, then the periodic table stops being a chart in a lab and becomes the primitive layer for on‑chain markets, governance, and even scientific experimentation. The open question is…