Author: NBTC

The July 4 deadline for the CLARITY Act’s passage looks set to lapse without approval. Nearly a year has already passed since the U.S. House of Representatives approved the bill in July 2025. Since then, it has encountered numerous obstacles in Congress. This includes opposition from the stablecoin industry regarding rewards and ethical concerns from lawmakers. Interestingly, the current delay is because the bill is now being used as leverage in larger negotiations by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump’s move sent shockwaves According to the latest update, President Trump called off the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to…

Trading activity in tokenized pre-IPO perpetual contracts surged sharply in May 2026 after several months of subdued activity, according to a new report by CoinGecko. Monthly trading volume climbed 1,059% from $60.51 million in April to $701.44 million in May. Interestingly, SpaceX pre-IPO perpetuals led the market with $305 million in monthly trading volume, as it accounted for 43.5% of the total. The strong activity came ahead of the company’s highly anticipated Nasdaq listing on June 12. SpaceX Pre-IPO Frenzy AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic ranked second and third, respectively. All combined, contracts tied to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic accounted…

Metaplanet, a publicly traded company based in Japan, continues to grow its Bitcoin investments. In its latest announcement, the company stated that it purchased an additional 2,823 Bitcoins. With this latest purchase, Metaplanet’s total Bitcoin holdings have risen to 43,000 $BTC. The company’s announced new purchase once again demonstrates the continuing trend of institutional companies viewing Bitcoin as a reserve asset. The recent addition of Bitcoin to the balance sheets of several publicly traded companies, in particular, reinforces the view that institutional adoption is strengthening in the cryptocurrency market. Metaplanet has become one of the companies that has stood out…

President Donald Trump disclosed at least $1.4 billion in income tied to crypto during 2025, making digital assets the largest reported source of revenue across his business holdings. The figures were included in a 927 page annual financial disclosure received by the US Office of Government Ethics on June 29. The report covers income generated through companies and trusts connected to Trump, though some entities also include ownership interests held by family members. CIC Digital, an entity wholly owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, reported about $635.1 million in royalties from a licensing agreement with Celebration Coins. The…

Following the standard monthly unlock of one billion tokens, Ripple locked away 70% of the available supply, releasing exactly 300 million $XRP into market circulation as per Whale Alert. If this holds by the end of the day, the volume will confirm the 2026 norm — the precise amount of net liquidity Ripple steadily releases each market cycle after completing mandatory re-escrow procedures. The core reason why exactly 300 million $XRP was released lies in the pragmatic financial discipline of Ripple’s market approach, dictated by current crypto market capacity. Inside Ripple’s ‘North Star’ approach to $XRP management In July 2026,…

On June 29, the US Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had the authority to remove the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, rejecting the statutory limits that previously allowed FTC commissioners to be fired only for cause. This decision overturned Humphrey’s Executor, the 1935 precedent that had protected certain independent agency commissioners from dismissal without cause for more than nine decades. The ruling stated: “Despite what Humphrey’s may say, independent agencies are not ‘independent’ in the sense that they are free of the President and thus responsive ‘only to the people of the United States.’” Trump celebrated…

Anchorage Digital has announced an integration with Binance to bring off-exchange settlement to institutional crypto traders, giving clients access to the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume without surrendering custody of their assets. The partnership, powered by Atlas — Anchorage Digital’s suite of settlement infrastructure — marks the first off-exchange settlement implementation within that platform. Under the arrangement, institutions can trade on Binance while their assets remain in segregated custody at Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States. The structure mirrors how institutional trading works in traditional financial markets, where custody and execution are…

Bitcoin could face further downside pressure after ending June below its 200-week moving average but above its realized price, a combination that crypto analyst PlanB says suggests the market has yet to reach a bear market bottom. Bitcoin fell 20.5% in June to close the month at $58,526 — its worst monthly performance since June 2022 — below its 200-week moving average of $62,000 but above its realized price of $52,000. “ALL previous bear market bottoms were below realized price,” said PlanB, the creator of the stock-to-flow pricing model, on Wednesday, adding in a separate post that Bitcoin could drop…

Yesterday, a massive new competitor, Open USD (OUSD), arrived to displace Circle Internet Group, issuer of the world’s second-largest stablecoin, $USDC. Behind its glamorous roster of financial titans was a stablecoin inspired by Hyperliquid’s USDH. The list of OUSD backers is long and powerful; a who’s who of the world’s largest payments conglomerates. It reads as though a crypto investor wished on a star and every dream came true. Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, Stripe, BlackRock, BNY, Google, Samsung Electronics, IBM, Shopify, Western Union, MoneyGram, Coinbase, OKX, Ripple, and MetaMask all appeared on the press release. The consortium will cooperatively…

Reform UK has removed a proposed crypto bill from its website amid ongoing controversy around billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne’s secret £5 million “gift” to the party’s leader, Nigel Farage. The Cryptoassets and Digital Finance Billwas announced last year during the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas. However, The Nerve reports that the bill was scrubbed from the website on May 30 this year. The Nerve also notes that the bill’s PDF can still be found online but is no longer present on Reform UK’s own website. A month before the bill’s removal, The Guardian revealed that Reform leader Farage…