Author: NBTC

What Happened? The BIP-110 faction broke from the main Bitcoin network and managed to grind out a microscopic four-block chain tip. That would normally kill a fork cold, but BIP-110 proponents have another escape route: ditch the minority chain’s crushing SHA-256 difficulty by replacing its PoW cryptographic hash function entirely. Word on the street is that the PoW switch could land in September. The four blocks mined by Roughnecks. As of today, Roughnecks had dragged the minority chain to block 961635, only for it to stall again after that block was mined three days ago on Aug. 12. Block 961636…

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 entered its mandatory-signaling phase at block 961,632 on Saturday, with miners signaling support in just 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, well below the 55% threshold required for early activation, according to the BIP-110 monitor. Starting at block 961,632, nodes enforcing BIP-110 began rejecting blocks that did not set version bit 4, while ordinary Bitcoin nodes continued accepting both signaling and non-signaling blocks. A minority BIP-110 branch subsequently emerged, but quickly fell behind the dominant chain. The low signaling rate makes a sustained rival chain unlikely without substantially greater miner participation. With relatively little…

That has changed. The same structure is now applied well outside crypto. Traders can hold perpetual positions on gold, major currency pairs, and equities and stock indexes, settled onchain, on venues that did not exist three years ago. Decentralized platforms list synthetic exposure to individual large-cap stocks alongside bitcoin and ether, and centralized exchanges are extending perpetual products into commodities and indices. The growth is not incremental. According to CoinDesk Research, real-world-asset perpetual volumes reached a record $211 billion in May 2026, roughly sixteen times their level of about $12 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, with equity perps…

With the number of active users on the network once again surpassing the crucial 140,000 mark, the $XRP Ledger is exhibiting fresh indications of activity. The most recent XRPL data shows that active users recently reached about 141,800 addresses, which is one of the highest readings over the previous month. Engagement around $XRP grows The timing is especially significant because, as trading volumes and transaction counts decrease throughout the larger cryptocurrency market, blockchain activity frequently slows down before weekends. Rather, despite the customarily slower trading period, $XRP Ledger participation has managed to stay high, indicating that user engagement is still…

Bitcoin [$BTC] trended higher after rebounding from $62,000 a few days ago. It remained inside a broader descending channel, although upside pressure strengthened. At press time, Bitcoin traded near $64,903, up 1.6% daily and 3% over the past week. Are Bitcoin whales buying $BTC? Bitcoin hovered near $64,000 as it searched for a breakout. Whales appeared to offer support. CryptoQuant’s Spot Average Order Size showed large whale orders between $63,000 and $64,000. That made these prices key whale zones. Source: CryptoQuant Lookonchain reported that a newly created wallet received 1,346 $BTC, worth $87.28 million. Of those holdings, 614.95 $BTC came…

Coinbase told investors on Thursday that 88% of its second-quarter net revenue came from something other than Bitcoin spot trading. The same release reported a $359.5 million net loss under US accounting rules, the company’s third consecutive losing quarter. Both numbers describe the same three months. Taken together, they get closer to the truth about Coinbase than either one does alone. The arrangement the company carried into its 2021 listing was easy to understand. Retail customers traded more when Bitcoin went up, and they paid a fee on every transaction. So when prices flattened, the revenue flattened with them. Almost…

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings has officially completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Singapore-based crypto exchange Coinhako through its subsidiary SBI Ventures Asset. The transaction received full approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and has now been formally closed. In their official statements, the management teams of both companies emphasize institutional infrastructure, including the creation of cross-border B2B corridors between Japan and Singapore, the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), and the launch of the regulated yen-denominated stablecoin JPYSC. However, on-chain data from the Arkham platform reveals an important structural detail of the acquisition. Along with the…

A Fifth Day, Right on Schedule The latest numbers mark the fifth straight trading day of net inflows for U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs and the fourth for their Ether counterparts. Weekly bitcoin ETF inflows have now topped $750 million, a pace that would have looked out of reach a month earlier. The streak traces back to Monday, August 3, and has run through Friday without a single down day. This lies in stark contrast to the choppy, stop-start pattern that defined bitcoin ETF flows for most of the year. Solana and XRP ETF products, by comparison, logged effectively zero net…

The Indian rupee strengthened for a sixth consecutive session on Friday, closing at ₹95.35 against the US dollar, up 15 paise from Thursday’s ₹95.50 close, itself a 26 paise gain marking the fifth straight session of gains. Why the Rupee Keeps Rising Sustained RBI dollar selling combined with a shift in foreign portfolio investor behavior is reportedly driving the rally. FPIs bought ₹7,360 crore worth of Indian equities over the past three days, reversing a period of heavy selling. Analysts expect the rupee to trade between ₹95 and ₹95.60 near term, supported by a softer dollar and dovish Fed expectations.…

Dash, the decade-old payments coin, announced today that it activated a new privacy system called Orchard. The system uses Zcash’s zero-knowledge proof technology to hide transaction details. The launch comes at a difficult time for Zcash, which created the Orchard technology. The project is in the middle of fixing a serious bug that could have let attackers create fake Zcash tokens. What is different about Dash’s new privacy system? Dash has launched a new privacy system called Orchard that lets users send Dash without revealing the sender, receiver, or amount to the public. The old privacy method, PrivateSend, mixed coins…