Author: NBTC

Key Takeaways Halving Pressure Forces Diversification: The 2024 reward cut squeezed margins, pushing miners toward higher, steadier AI returns per megawatt. AI Hosting Delivers Predictable Cash Flow: Multi-year, dollar-based HPC contracts offer lower volatility than mining, turning operators into compute landlords. Infrastructure and Incentives Are Shifting: Costly AI upgrades may gradually weaken miners’ alignment with Bitcoin’s long-term security model. Bitcoin miners are adjusting their business models following the April 2024 halving, increasingly redeploying energy and computing capacity from cryptocurrency mining to artificial intelligence workloads. Halving Reduces Miner Revenue The halving cut block rewards from 6.25 $BTC to 3.125 $BTC, reducing…

UQUID, a Web3 shopping infrastructure powered by e-commerce, is excited to make shopping easy and simplify it with crypto. For this, UQUID is now facilitating users with $USAT by tether. The primary purpose of this crypto integration is to enable fast, simple, and real-world online shopping. 🚀 HOW TO SHOP ON UQUID WITH #USAT by @tether — Fast, simple, crypto-powered shopping!🛒 Step 1: Visit https://t.co/Ay0rxEkIVo & choose your product💳 Step 2: At checkout, select Pay with Cryptocurrency → USAT✅ Step 3: Complete payment & your order is ready!Start now 👉… pic.twitter.com/rbsy6b0NEX — UQUID – Web3 Shopping Infrastructure (@uquidcard) February 18,…

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects refer to financial projects that are built on blockchain technology for providing peer-to-peer services like lending, borrowing, trading, and asset management. LunarCrush, a platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, has unveiled the list of Top 10 Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Projects based on social activity. TOP #DEFI PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$SOL $XRP $LINK $ZEC $HBAR $ASTER $VVS $MON $XTZ $ICP pic.twitter.com/9nSvJjuiQK — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) February 12, 2026 Fundamentally, Social activity encompasses Engaged Posts and Interactions. These projects are named as Solana ($SOL), $XRP ($XRP), Chainlink…

Ethereum price found support near $1,920 and recovered some losses. $ETH is now consolidating and faces key hurdles near $2,020. Ethereum is attempting a fresh recovery wave above $1,965. The price is trading below $2,000 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $1,955 on the hourly chart of $ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh decline if it stays below the $2,020 zone. Ethereum Price Holds Support Ethereum price failed to stay above $2,020 and started a fresh decline, like Bitcoin. $ETH price traded below the $1,965…

Fitch Ratings revised its US economic growth forecasts upwards for 2025 and 2026, while stating that it expects the Fed to make two interest rate cuts in the first half of 2026. The organization also stated that the unemployment rate is likely to remain stable at 4.6 percent this year. Fitch has updated its growth projections, taking into account economic data delayed due to the government shutdown at the end of last year. Accordingly, the forecast for US gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2025 has been raised from 1.8 percent to 2.1 percent. The growth expectation for 2026 has…

Poland’s president vetoed a second bill meant to align the country’s crypto rules with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation framework, deepening uncertainty for local platforms as a key transition deadline approaches. President Karol Nawrocki declined to sign Bill 2064 last week, marking the second veto of proposed legislation to implement the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), the president’s office said Thursday. Nawrocki vetoed a similar measure in December and described Bill 2064 as “practically identical” to the original Bill 1424 vetoed previously. The veto followed an announcement by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), warning that Poland…

Tether’s $USDT, the world’s largest US dollar-pegged stablecoin, is heading for its steepest monthly decline in years as large holders step up redemptions, according to blockchain data. The circulating supply of USDt ($USDT) fell by about $1.5 billion so far in February, following an $1.2 billion decrease in January, according to Artemis Analytics data reported by Bloomberg. This puts $USDT on track for the biggest monthly drop in three years, weeks after the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX in November 2022. The $USDT supply logged a $2 billion decrease in December 2022 after the collapse of FTX and its 150…

MARA Holdings shares jumped 17% after the bitcoin mining firm announced Thursday a partnership with Starwood Capital Group to build large data centers across its existing U.S. sites. The agreement will convert select MARA locations, many of which were originally developed for Bitcoin mining, into facilities serving enterprise cloud and artificial intelligence customers. Starwood, which manages more than $125 billion of assets, will lead design, construction and tenant sourcing through its data center arm, Starwood Digital Ventures. The partners expect to deliver about 1 gigawatt of computing capacity in the near term, with plans to scale beyond 2.5 gigawatts over…

ChainAware.ai has declared a strategic collaboration with AGNT Hub to provide advanced on-chain intelligence and blockchain security software to users directly on X. The partnership unveils AGNT Connect, a browser extension that is meant to redesign X into a single Web3 experience, allowing one to access decentralized tools and analytics in the social feed effortlessly. https://t.co/tODxqMTUfI x @agnt_hub 🚀We’re excited to team up with AGNT Hub, bringing the $100B Mini App trend from Telegram to X with AGNT Connect, a browser extension that transforms X into a unified Web3 interface for 300K+ subscribers and 40K+ daily active users.By… pic.twitter.com/Q0xephbDm0 —…

Ventuals, a protocol that lets users trade tokenized exposure to private and pre-IPO companies, has crossed $200 million in cumulative trading volume less than three months after launch, according to a Feb. 11 X post from the platform’s co-founder, Alvin Hsia. The milestone was reached just 17 days after cumulative volume first hit $100 million, on Jan. 24, a level that took the platform 73 days to achieve, Hsia noted. Ventuals trading volume over time. Source: Loris.Tools On-chain data from LorisTools, which tracks activity across Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 products, shows cumulative volume on Ventuals has climbed past $215 million by press…