The development of highly active and cost effective catalysts for hydrolysis of sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) is the main aim for practical usage of NaBH 4 for fuel cells. Herein, we investigated the addition of various amounts of Triton during chemical reduction process on the NiB catalytic activity. The experimental results indicated that the catalytic performance of Triton stabilized NiB catalysts was significantly higher than that of NiB catalysts. Furthermore, the highest hydrogen generation rate in NaBH 4 hydrolysis was obtained with 25 μL Triton addition as 8970 mL.min −1 .g −1 cat at 338 K. The activation energy of the hydrolysis for NiB25 and NiB catalysts were calculated as 48.05 and 58.91 kJ mol −1 , respectively. In the second part of this study, the kinetic performance of NaBH 4 hydrolysis was experimentally studied, and subsequently generated hydrogen from the hydrolysis reaction was fed directly to the fuel cell and the performance analysis were investigated. It was found that the power density of pure hydrogen was lower than the hydrogen generated by the NiB25 catalysts. Our results clearly indicated that Triton possessed a significant effect on the catalytic activity of NiB catalyst.