Author: NBTC

Circle’s $USDC stablecoin widened its lead over competitor Tether’s $USDT by transaction volume during the first half of 2026, according to fresh data from Visa’s onchain dashboard. In June alone, stablecoin activity increased to a record $1.79 trillion in adjusted transaction volume, up 63% from May’s $1.1 trillion and 125% from about $795 billion in June 2025. Visa removes bot activity, exchange transfers and other blockchain transactions that do not reflect real economic activity before calculating adjusted volume. These figures come as banks and other financial institutions expand their use of stablecoins for payments, settlement and treasury operations. Standard Chartered…

A Bitcoin treasury company is a publicly traded business whose main purpose is to hold crypto on its balance sheet, letting stock-market investors get exposure without touching a wallet. The model minted fortunes on the way up. Understanding the premium that powers it, and the discount that can break it, is the whole game. Table of Contents What a Bitcoin treasury company actually is How the engine actually works The most important concept: premium and discount to NAV The financial engineering that amplifies the bet The risks: concentration, reflexivity, and the discount trap How it differs from owning Bitcoin or…

Input Output Global (IOG) CEO Charles Hoskinson has criticized Ethereum’s staking mechanism, arguing that Cardano provides a better alternative. In a recent commentary, Hoskinson took aim at several aspects of Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) architecture, particularly its staking design. According to him, Ethereum forces users to navigate unnecessary fund lockups, slashing risks, bonding periods, with liquid staking solutions built around derivative assets such as Lido. “You have to lock your funds, and have slashing and bonding, and all this garbage, and create synthetic assets like Lido,” Hoskinson said. He contrasted Ethereum’s approach with Cardano’s staking model, emphasizing that Cardano does not…

While the tech world was busy fawning over quantum computing, a German gas engine company walked into the Nasdaq and raised more money than anyone expected. Innio Group, which makes distributed power generators, completed its upsized IPO on June 4, pricing 90 million shares at $27 each and pulling in roughly $2.43B to $2.73B. That’s not a typo. A company that builds gas engines for on-site power generation just out-raised Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing darling, by more than a billion dollars. The numbers tell a very clear story Innio’s stock surged 20-23% on its first day of trading, giving…

Kazakhstan, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining hubs, is moving to expand its crypto sector as a new decree introduces rules for stablecoin payments, tax breaks for regulated crypto activity and new energy options for mining. Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree aimed at building a regulated digital asset market, the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development (MAIDD) announced on Wednesday. Developed jointly by MAIDD, the central bank and the Astana International Financial Centre, the order is viewed as a tool to increase regulatory clarity for crypto businesses, investors and digital asset service providers. The move…

Taiwanese celebrity and cryptocurrency trader Jeffrey Huang, widely known as Machi Big Brother, has publicly declared his intention to recover all his trading losses in a single high-leverage position. The statement, posted on X, comes as Huang currently holds a 25x long position of 11,100 Ether ($ETH) on the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange. The Position and Market Context According to on-chain data, Huang’s position has an entry price of approximately $1,735.7 per $ETH and a liquidation price of $1,751. This extremely tight margin — roughly $15.3 below the current market price — places the trade at high risk of liquidation. At…

Michael Saylor’s “buy and hold forever” $BTC strategy, which seemed highly appealing, has become a concern as MSTR and $BTC prices trade at yearly lows. Economist and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff said many “Bitcoiners are way too complacent” about the reality of the situation at play. Strategy’s stock MSTR dropped to $103 on Tuesday, marking a 23-month low and an 81% decline from its all-time high. The company’s preferred stock STRC is also down nearly 13%, “yielding” 13.2%. The biggest Bitcoin owner is simply “collapsing,” Schiff claims. Bitcoiners are way too complacent. $MSTR, the biggest Bitcoin owner and its…

Ethereum has weakened for a second straight session as a bearish rounding-top pattern and renewed selling pressure threaten a move toward $1,650. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) was trading near $1,737 at press time, down nearly 2% over the past 24 hours after a wallet linked to a large holder transferred roughly $26.9 million worth of Ether to a centralized exchange. The move triggered fresh profit-taking after Ethereum’s recent recovery stalled just below a major technical resistance zone between $1,800 and $1,806, where the daily Supertrend indicator and the 50-day exponential moving average converged. Geopolitical tensions have added…

Michael Saylor doubled down on his Bitcoin conviction today, but while he did that, his MicroStrategy CEO, Phong Le, sold roughly $11.1 million in company stock tied to the same exposure. The timing drew attention across crypto markets. Saylor frames Bitcoin as the premier long-term asset, yet the executive running his company trimmed shares that give investors leveraged exposure to that same bet. Michael Saylor’s Conviction Meets an Inconvenient Sale Saylor posted his message as Bitcoin hovered just above the $60,000 threshold, only hours after a brief break below that critical psychological level for the first time in years. Bitcoin…

A wallet address widely presumed to be linked to Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of BitMEX, has withdrawn an additional 47,007 $HYPE tokens, valued at approximately $3.16 million, from the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit. The transaction was flagged by blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain, adding to a series of movements that have drawn attention to the token’s recent price action. Details of the Withdrawal The address, which begins with 0xf7A4, executed the withdrawal on [Insert Date, e.g., Tuesday], transferring the tokens out of Bybit. This follows a previous withdrawal of 33,978 $HYPE, worth roughly $2.09 million, from the same exchange. The initial move…