Author: NBTC

Ethereum price has consolidated below $2,800 after gaining more than 8% over the past week, as steady US spot ETF inflows have met selling near the September high. At the time of writing, CoinGecko priced Ethereum at roughly $2,681, with the flagship altcoin down 0.3% over the past 24 hours but up 8.8% over seven days. Ethereum has traded mainly between $2,635 and $2,700 during the latest session after reaching a recent high near $2,786. $ETH’s sideways move follows a rally from under $2,400 last week. Buyers pushed the token through $2,500 and $2,600 before selling picked up between $2,700…

The world’s largest private debt offering, a bond series for one of Meta’s AI data centers, has slumped to its worst level since the deal priced at par last October. As the Nasdaq composite closed at an all-time high on Tuesday in an AI-led rally, unease rose in the credit market for the industry. The $27.3 billion bond financing Meta’s Hyperion AI data center traded down to a disconcerting 94.4 cents on the dollar, a record low. Worse, the loss coincided with Meta’s largest intraday stock rally in a year: 9%. The bond series was the largest private debt offering…

Three days after Splash’s Cardano-based $ADA/OADA StableSwap pool was drained, OADA holders still faced a problem that corrected code alone could not solve: the pool had lost the $ADA that provided their meaningful route out of the token. Splash’s incident report said one actor used two transactions on Sept. 13 to remove 2,434,648 $ADA and 1,988,222 OADA. After subtracting the attacker’s 9,870 $ADA deposit, but before network fees, the $ADA drain was 2,424,778. Why a code patch is not a liquidity fix The pool’s validator calculated a “tradable” reserve by subtracting accrued protocol fees from its real balances. According to…

Alleged ‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Fraud Trung Nguyen Van, 37, faces a two-count criminal complaint in the Western District of Missouri charging him with money laundering. The complaint was unsealed this week after Van made an initial court appearance in Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas City. Pig butchering schemes—named for the practice of “fattening up” a victim before financially devastating them—typically begin with fraudsters striking up seemingly romantic relationships with targets online, often through dating apps, unsolicited texts or social media messages. Once trust is established, victims are steered toward fake crypto investment platforms and encouraged…

While crypto exchanges and retail brokers have largely converged on MCP integrations in their AI roadmaps, some, such as Bybit, are now adding a conversational AI front end that sits on top of that infrastructure. The second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume has unveiled today (Wednesday) Bybit AI for everyday trading and account management support. The firm launched an MCP server in April, connecting its platform to AI agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. “Bybit AI is an important part of our roadmap for the New Financial Platform,” said Ben Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of Bybit. “We want to make…

Arbitrum is gearing up for the launch of Aeroxyz, a new initiative that could significantly enhance its ecosystem. This announcement was notably highlighted by the Twitter commentator @arbitrum, who stated, ‘Prepare for takeoff.’ As Arbitrum continues to innovate, this launch may attract increased attention from traders and developers alike, indicating a growing interest in the platform’s capabilities. The Story So Far While most altcoins traded sideways today, Arbitrum broke ranks with its announcement of the upcoming Aeroxyz launch. The broader crypto market reflects mixed signals, but this initiative is expected to draw significant interest and might lead to increased activity…

In brief August CPI rose 3.4% year over year and 0.4% month over month, both matching consensus, per Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. Core inflation cooled to 2.4% annually, its lowest since 2021, but its 0.3% monthly reading ran hotter than the 0.2% economists forecast. Crypto rallied across the board: total market capitalization climbed back near $2.7 trillion, the Fear & Greed Index jumped to 73 (greed) and Bitcoin’s daily chart now shows a nascent golden cross. U.S. inflation data gave the market a mixed bag today, with the core monthly reading coming in hotter than economists had…

Developer Aryeh Greenberg has proposed an Ethereum token interface that would add compliance checks and issuer enforcement powers to confidential tokens representing real-world assets. The submission, pull request #2034, opened Thursday evening ET, remains an unmerged draft. It extends ERC-7984, a draft interface that represents balances and transfer amounts as confidential pointers—references to protected values rather than publicly readable numbers. The change targets a gap between confidentiality and issuer control. The finalized ERC-7943 RWA interface already defines eligibility checks, freezing and forced transfers for conventional tokens. Greenberg’s draft adapts that approach so amount-dependent compliance decisions can remain confidential too. Applications…

UPI is one of the first modern payment systems that became popular in India before Bitcoin or stablecoins. For years, Indians have been turning to the system to move money online, from everyday purchases to larger financial transactions. But now, the payment channel is facing a significant change, which could affect the way traders move money into and out of forex and crypto markets. New UPI Charges Could Change Trading Costs in India New Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) rules will take effect on October 15, 2026, with India’s UPI payment system facing a significant change in transaction charges. It doesn’t…

JPYC, the issuer of Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, said on Thursday that it has restored the issuance-reservation function on Ethereum after a temporary shutdown. Meanwhile, the same function on Polygon remains offline. A disruption hit the process users rely on to mint new tokens on the same day that JPYC made its South Korean trading debut on Upbit. Is JPYC active on Ethereum? JPYC Co., the issuer of Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, posted a sequence of service notices to its official X account throughout the day. First, it flagged that issuance reservations on Ethereum had been suspended while…