Author: NBTC

Crypto investment firm Capriole Investments is sounding the alarm on elevated inflation, warning that every historical instance of inflation reaching current levels has been followed by an average market crash of 30% over the next one to 24 months. Key Takeaways: Capriole Investments warns every inflation spike to current levels has triggered a 30% average market drop historically. The 2000 crash (-47%) and 2008 crash (-55%) represent the worst-case range in Capriole’s historical dataset. U.S. CPI hit 3.8% recently, its highest since May 2023, sustaining pressure on the Fed and risk assets. Historical Data Paints a Bleak Picture Capriole Investments…

Ethereum has been under intense selling pressure due to losing the 100-day moving average, which was only reclaimed in April after months. The recent breakdown below a key demand zone has pushed $ETH to fresh local lows near $1.75K, while both technical and on-chain indicators continue to favor the bears. Unless buyers reclaim the lost levels quickly, the current structure suggests that further downside cannot be ruled out. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, $ETH continues to trade below a well-defined long-term bearish trendline that has been in place since the reversal from the $4.8K cycle…

Privacy cryptocurrencies such as Zcash ($ZEC) and Horizen ($ZEN) are seeing significant whale allocations as private-preserving tools see heightened demand. A similar appetite is evident for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-related tokens amid the industry’s massive growth. These include Bittensor ($TAO), Render ($RENDER), and $NEAR Protocol ($NEAR). Whales are loading up on privacy and AI tokens Grayscale Zcash Trust is one of the largest institutional vehicles for Zcash, now holding a total of 390,111 $ZEC tokens (over 2.4% of the circulating supply) after it began accumulation in 2017. Cypherpunk Technologies holds 1.78% of the circulating supply, while Multicoin Capital holds a “significant…

According to Normative Instruction No. 739, issued on Friday, VASPs will now need to undergo an audit by an approved third-party entity to obtain authorization to operate in Brazil. The requirement adds to an already stringent regulation, making the process of obtaining a license in Brazil more difficult. Key Takeaways: Central Bank of Brazil issued Instruction 739, forcing VASPs to get independent audits to secure licenses. Audits must ensure that each VASP is prepared to combat and prevent crypto-linked crime. Following the $5B Hidden Flow case, Brazil’s new rules will next tighten oversight to avoid crypto laundering. Central Bank Of…

Key points: Bitcoin is at a critical juncture, as a close below $76,000 may deepen the pullback toward $70,000. $HYPE and $ZEC are in an up move, but most other major altcoins are struggling to find support. Bitcoin ($BTC) has risen above $77,500, but the recovery is expected to face resistance in the $78,500-$82,000 range. The net outflows of $979.7 million from spot $BTC exchange-traded funds this week, according to Fireside Investors data, suggest that investors have turned cautious in the near term. Crypto analyst Ardi said in a post on X that the next retest of the $74,000 to…

Lido Finance, the leading liquid staking protocol for Ethereum, has officially unveiled Staking Router V3, a significant upgrade designed to improve the efficiency and scalability of its staking operations. The new system introduces a balance-based accounting method and raises the maximum validator limit to 2,048 $ETH, marking a technical shift in how the protocol manages validator deposits and rewards. What Staking Router V3 Brings to Lido Staking Router V3 is not a simple patch but a rearchitecture of Lido’s core staking infrastructure. The most notable change is the adoption of a balance-based accounting system, which replaces the previous method that…

Crypto investors keep making mistakes with their Anthropic investments, from paying 8,700% funding rates to buying tokenized securities of non-existent shares. Indeed, a lawyer for Anthropic just clarified that, despite promises by promoters of blockchain tokens, it never legally transferred shares that supposedly back many tokens like perpetual contracts (perps), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), real world assets (RWAs), and memecoins. Blockchain doesn’t fix stupid, and very few crypto AI investors were smart enough to read the fine print before purchasing. Anthropic, the multi-hundred billion dollar maker of Claude AI, updated its webpage today to reiterate that unauthorized share transfers are void.…

Bitcoin ATMs were (and still are) the most tangible and literal implementation of crypto. They turned the process of buying and selling crypto from an abstract act done on a screen and moved it into the real world, enabling people to buy Bitcoin without verification, a bank account, or any real understanding of how custody works. Scan a QR code, insert a few bills, and all of the $BTC you can afford lands in a crypto wallet in a few minutes. For a while, that physical aspect of buying a virtual currency with cash gave Bitcoin something exchanges couldn’t: the…

For the first time, retail crypto users can borrow against shares of a BlackRock or Apollo fund without ever leaving decentralized finance. Jason Barraza, institutional business development lead at RedStone, joined TheStreet Roundtable to walk through how it works. He joined RedStone in January 2026 after the oracle firm acquired Security Token Advisors, where he was COO and helped track more than 800 tokenized real-world assets. Why NAV oracles matter Net asset value, or NAV, is the per-share value of a fund. For a traditional fund, the administrator calculates it once a day and reports it to investors. That once-a-day…

Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, is now accepting Bitcoin as payment for his artwork on his official website. The homepage of Hunter Biden’s official website, hunterbiden.com, features his signature bright, large-scale floral paintings, while the footer now includes a simple but striking notice: “BITCOIN ACCEPTED,” listed alongside links to the site’s privacy policy, terms of use and “Verisart Authentication.” Verisart provides blockchain‑based certificates of authenticity designed to permanently record provenance and ownership of artworks, both physical and digital. Biden’s art career has been politically fraught from the start, with initial shows in New York and Los…