Author: NBTC

Ethereum traded near $1,860 on Saturday, July 25, down from a recent high above $1,950 reached earlier in the week. The pullback followed a monthly recovery that carried the token up from lows near $1,510 in late June. Polymarket’s Even Split on $1,000 vs $3,000 On Polymarket, a contract asking “Will Ethereum hit $1,000 or $3,000 first?” has drawn $95,300 in volume. Traders currently price the $1,000 outcome at 54 cents and the $3,000 outcome at 50 cents, roughly an even split. The market resolves using Binance’s $ETH/USDT one-minute candle data and expires December 31, 2026. A broader Polymarket market…

Robinhood has officially announced the upcoming launch of its Ventures Fund II, designed to support early-stage companies. The announcement was made via a tweet from their official handle, emphasizing the importance of nurturing startups before they go public. This initiative aims to pave the way for greater institutional adoption in the market, as detailed in their tweet. The Story So Far The broader crypto market remains mixed as Robinhood gears up for its Ventures Fund II, promoting institutional confidence in early-stage investments. This announcement comes at a time when many major assets are experiencing fluctuating momentum, suggesting that Robinhood is…

They were born from the same code and the same founder, and now they are competing for a slice of what could become the largest market in finance. $XRP and Stellar both trace back to Jed McCaleb, who co-founded Ripple and then left to create Stellar in 2014. A decade later, the two networks are the leading crypto contenders to become the settlement infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, a market that bulls size at up to $114 trillion as stocks, bonds, funds, and Treasuries move on-chain. In 2026 each landed a defining win. $XRP has the CLARITY Act advancing through…

The chain processed just $5.9 million in perpetual futures on July 13, compared to Hyperliquid, the decentralized exchange that has become the benchmark for onchain derivatives, which did $8.9 billion on the same day. Robinhood’s blockchain, meanwhile, bridged a total-value-locked (TVL) of $734 million, vastly exceeding its actual TVL of $211 million. The discrepancy reflects assets sitting idle in wallets rather than being deployed into the chain’s lending pools and yield products. A similar pattern previously played out on another network, Blast, which attracted more than $2 billion in bridged assets following a point program that yield chasers farmed in…

Data center operator Core Scientific (CORZ) announced an infrastructure partnership with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) anchored by 15-year leases for 529 megawatts of U.S. AI capacity, which the company said could generate more than $14 billion in base contracted revenue. The capacity is expected to support AMD customer deployments beginning in 2027. The agreements give AMD, under certain conditions, the right to reserve another 1,925 MW through Dec. 28, 2028, potentially expanding the partnership to roughly 2.5 gigawatts. AMD directly leased 377 MW across Core Scientific sites in Pecos and Hunt County, Texas, and Muskogee, Oklahoma, according to the company’s…

“Overall this points to a stabilizing but still fragile ETF demand backdrop, where investors are no longer accelerating exits but are gradually repositioning capital, providing a potential floor to downside,” the firm said. The other notable dynamic is the decoupling of the U.S. two-year Treasury yield, which is sensitive to Fed interest rate expectations, and WTI crude oil futures. While oil prices have collapsed, the two-year yield has strengthened, hovering at 4.21% as of this writing, the highest since February 2025. (Check the Daily Signal.) The decoupling indicates that oil and geopolitical headwinds for risk assets have been replaced by…

Ethereum ETF outflows raised fresh concerns over institutional demand after U.S. spot ETFs recorded a $70.7 million net outflow on July 24. BlackRock accounted for the largest share of that activity after investors withdrew $52.8 million from its $ETH fund. The figures interrupted a period of sustained inflows and shifted attention toward whether large investors had started locking in profits. However, one trading session rarely defines a broader trend, especially after weeks of consistent institutional accumulation. Instead, the latest withdrawal suggested that some investors had adopted a more cautious stance near key price resistance. As a result, Ethereum faced greater…

Circle’s (@circle) X feed turned into a run of handshake emojis on July 23. One post announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kakao Group, signed alongside Kakao Pay and KakaoBank. Another confirmed a second agreement with Toss (@toss__official) and Toss Bank, sealed at a stablecoin roundtable at Toss headquarters a day earlier. Two deals, two of South Korea’s biggest consumer fintech names, and one question hanging over both: is the $USDC issuer about to launch a Korean won stablecoin? It is not. Circle has ruled that out repeatedly and on the record. What the agreements sketch instead is a…

This is the uncomfortable truth at the center of the $XRP investment case in 2026. The $XRP Ledger is winning. Banks and payment firms are adopting it, tokenized funds are settling on it, stablecoins are moving across it, and Ripple has built an end-to-end institutional infrastructure that traditional finance can plug into without changing how it operates. By almost every measure of adoption, the thesis $XRP holders have believed for years is finally coming true. And yet the $XRP token has spent 2026 stuck in a narrow band around $1.30, far below where its believers expected adoption to take it.…

On the eve of the $GENIUS Act’s first anniversary, the stablecoin market holds about $310 billion, including roughly $184 billion in $USDT and $73 billion in $USDC. President Donald Trump signed the law on July 18, 2025, creating a federal framework with one-for-one liquid reserves, redemption rights, and monthly reserve disclosures for a market that moved faster than the rulebook. Federal Reserve researchers measured stablecoin capitalization at $317 billion on Apr. 6, up more than 50% from early 2025, and recorded a 50% increase in Ethereum stablecoin transaction volume since enactment. As of July 17, core implementation measures are still…