Author: NBTC
This year has arguably been the biggest and most consequential on record for crypto IPOs. A surge in retail interest, renewed political tailwinds, and a reopened U.S. IPO market helped push a wave of crypto firms onto public exchanges. Reuters described a “rush to Wall Street IPOs” driven by the year’s crypto resurgence, while Barron’s reported that crypto flotations were “making Wall Street go wild.” Against that backdrop, companies from exchanges to stablecoin issuers raced to tap public markets—setting the stage for an unusually crowded IPO calendar. For a long time, the industry’s one big IPO win was Coinbase’s Nasdaq…
Key Takeaways Caroline Crenshaw, the lone Democratic commissioner at the SEC, will leave her position when her term expires on January 3. Her departure will tilt the SEC’s composition to a 3-0 Republican majority, a rare occurrence in the history of the commission. SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, known for her skepticism of crypto and advocacy for investor protection, will depart the agency this week after serving more than five years on the commission. Crenshaw’s bid for a second term failed after the Senate Banking Committee scrapped a scheduled vote in late 2024. Her term is set to end on January…
The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market will continue to grow in 2026, fueled by adoption in emerging market economies, according to Jesse Knutson, head of operations at crypto exchange Bitfinex. Emerging market economies experience “friction” in capital formation and attracting foreign investment, Knutson told Cointelegraph Tokenizing real-world assets, the process of representing physical or traditional assets on blockchain networks, fixes this by enabling onchain capital formation and bypassing traditional financial intermediaries, he said. Kunston added: “Emerging markets also tend to ‘leapfrog’ infrastructure that holds back developed markets, adopting digital rails, including stablecoin settlement, faster than markets with entrenched legacy plumbing.”…
Key Takeaways BitVentures has officially launched its Digital Assets segment and entered the crypto mining industry. In building its new segment, the company has acquired multiple fleets of Bitmain mining machines. BitVentures, a Nasdaq-listed tech company, today announced the official launch of its Digital Assets segment, a unit focused on crypto mining and digital asset operations, including staking, node services, and ecosystem partnerships. As part of the expansion, the company has entered into purchase and hosting agreements to acquire multiple fleets of Bitmain mining machines with approximately 0.5 MW of power capacity. Deployment will begin in phases from January 2026,…
Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana, has outlined a set of projections for 2026 that place stablecoins at the center of several structural shifts underway across digital asset markets. His comments were shared in a public post on X and referenced a future in which the global stablecoin supply exceeds $1 trillion, alongside advances in artificial intelligence and robotics that extend beyond the crypto sector. My 2026 predictions:* $1t+ stables * qc and fusion will be as elusive as today * ai will solve a millennium problem * 100k humanoid robots shipped — toly 🇺🇸 (@toly) December 26, 2025 Yakovenko’s…
Unibase and blazpay have forged a partnership to serve the crypto community by powering decentralized finance (DeFi) with artificial intelligence (AI). Unibase is set to merge its decentralized memory AI layer with the conversational DeFi experience to enable AI agents to understand, remember and evolve onchain. Unibase has updated the crypto community regarding this newly forged partnership through its official social media platform, X account. We are excited to partner with @blazpaylabs, the AI-powered DeFi copilot making crypto truly accessible for everyone.By combining Unibase’s decentralized AI memory layer with Blazpay AI’s conversational DeFi experience, we’re enabling AI agents that can:→…
2025 showed no mercy, with bitcoin and crypto-linked equities ping-ponging between dizzying swings, extended snoozes, and moments that demanded a double take. What follows is a snapshot report of the year’s top and bottom digital asset stocks—and exactly how each one fared along the way. 2025’s Crypto Stock Scorecard This year, crypto-related stocks zigzagged through sharp swings and wildly different outcomes during a tough stretch for cryptocurrencies. The crypto economy kicked off Jan. 1, 2025, at $3.26 trillion and now enters 2026 about $290 billion lighter, hovering near $2.97 trillion. Bitcoin finished the 12-month run down 5%, while ethereum fared…
Folks Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers permissionless lending, borrowing, trading, and cross-chain management across various blockchains, is excited to announce its groundbreaking partnership with AEON Community, a crypto payment and settlement protocol. AEON Community has its native flagship product called AEON Pay, a Web3 mobile payment solution. Folks Finance is excited to announce a partnership with @AEON_Community, expanding real-world utility for $FOLKS and extending it beyond DeFi into everyday commerce and AI-native payments.Learn more ↓ https://t.co/KpegTcxupC — Folks Finance (@FolksFinance) December 31, 2025 The main purpose of this partnership is to expand the utility of $FOLKS in…
Hong Kong-based investment firm Trend Research has continued accumulating Ether even as one of the largest corporate ETH holders expects a sharp drawdown during the first quarter of 2026. Trend Research acquired $35 million in Ether (ETH), pushing its holdings above 601,000 ETH worth around $1.83 billion, according to blockchain data platform Lookonchain. The company has borrowed a total of $958 million in stablecoins from decentralized lending protocol Aave and has an average purchasing price of around $3,265 per ETH, wrote Lookonchain in a Monday X post. Trend’s founder, Jack Yi, said he was “bullish” on crypto for the first…
This year, exchange-traded funds opened several doors to crypto on Wall Street, as the SEC forged a fresh approach to the products. Although asset managers had previously fought tooth and nail to offer products tracking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s spot price, many foresaw opportunities in 2025, as the regulatory environment started to shift with President Donald Trump’s return to power in January. As of Dec. 15, spot Bitcoin ETFs had generated $57.7 billion in net inflows since their historic debut in January 2024, according to Farside Investors. That represented a 59% increase compared to $36.2 billion at the start of this…