Mustafa Shabbir is a crypto journalist at Nonce Media. His writing focuses on the operators, protocols, and capital flows shaping digital asset markets, with attention to the on-chain detail behind the headlines.
Smart contracts are often called trustless, self-executing agreements. But there is a hard problem hiding inside that pitch: a smart contract sitting on a blockchain has absolutely no way to…
Kaspa's KAS token holds rank 76 with a $2.6B market cap. The network uses a BlockDAG structure to achieve fast block times while keeping proof-of-work.
Chainlink ranks 19th globally as real-world asset tokenization expands beyond Treasury bills into credit, real estate, and commodities, putting LINK in focus.
PEPE holds a $1.6 billion market cap with $181 million in daily volume. Here is how the frog meme token became a durable fixture in cryptocurrency markets.
Zano's privacy blockchain holds a $169 million market cap in May 2026, using ring signatures and stealth addresses to obscure transactions in a sector.
USD.AI's CHIP token logged $36.5 million in 24-hour volume on May 16, 2026, as the AI-to-payments narrative drew renewed trader attention across cryptocurrency.
SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities plan to sell in-house cryptocurrency investment trusts in Japan, widening retail access to digital asset exposure.
**Ethereum** [(ETH)](https://www.noncemedia.com/asset/eth)'s ETH/BTC ratio hit a 2026 low on May 16 as spot ETF outflows reached $290M and capital shifted.
BlackRock has quietly crossed a threshold that cryptocurrency market participants have debated since the first spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF approvals in January 2024. The firm’s new iShares Staked Ethereum Trust,…
Toncoin fell 1.8% in 24 hours to May 16, holding a $7.4 billion market cap at rank 21 as Telegram's blockchain ecosystem continues expanding its in-app payment.
Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo doubled its crypto holdings to $235 million in Q1 2026, adding Ethereum and **XRP** [(XRP)](https://www.noncemedia.com/asset/xrp).
**Sui** [(SUI)](https://www.noncemedia.com/asset/sui) Network holds a $4.2 billion market cap and $645 million in daily volume on May 16, 2026, as the Layer-1.
