Author: NBTC

The following is a guest post by Nischal Shetty, co-founder and President at Shardeum. On 2nd January 2026, an anonymous trader on crypto prediction platform Polymarket put down roughly $30,000 on a contract that Nicolás Maduro would be out of power by 31 January 2026. Within hours of a U.S. special forces raid that resulted in Maduro’s capture, that position was worth more than $436,000. Meanwhile, traders had placed over $10.5 million on related bets about a U.S. invasion this year, many tying outcomes to specific deadlines in January, March, and December. Some participants staked tens of thousands of dollars…

If U.S. laws finally define how federal regulators can touch digital assets, cryptocurrencies will be easier to manage, keep track of and transact in, and more investors will probably get involved, potentially increasing the worth of each token. But a lot has to happen before that’s true, and the work to get laws through Congress is at a messy crossroads. Crypto enthusiasts have long seen themselves as cutting-edge investors, eager to challenge the system and pursue a stake in something outside the mainstream. But what lawmakers are working on now is meant to put crypto very much into the establishment.…

In a significant move for the digital collectibles market, Coinbase announced on March 15, 2025, that it will list Moonbird ($BIRB), the utility token powering the prominent Moonbirds non-fungible token ecosystem. This strategic decision marks another expansion of major cryptocurrency exchanges into the $NFT utility token space, potentially increasing mainstream accessibility to digital collectible ecosystems. Consequently, the announcement generated immediate market attention, with analysts examining implications for both the $NFT sector and broader cryptocurrency adoption. Moonbird $BIRB Token Receives Major Exchange Validation Coinbase’s listing announcement represents a substantial validation milestone for the Moonbirds project. Initially launched in April 2022 by…

The US dollar is heading for its steepest weekly decline in seven months as volatile US-Europe relations and rising policy uncertainty pressure the currency. The dollar index, which tracks the US currency against a basket of six peers, slipped to 97.8. The gauge is heading for a weekly loss exceeding 1%, the largest since June. Analysts point to uncertainty around policy decisions by President Donald Trump, including his recent pullback from tariff threats targeting European nations. The reversals have added to concerns over the durability of US trade and economic strategy, undermining confidence in the greenback. The latest slide extends…

The United States keeps debating the complexities of regulating thousands of new crypto tokens, but Bitcoin advocates are warning that the country is missing the forest for the trees. Pierre Rochard, a widely quoted voice in the industry, argued on Sunday that the U.S. tax code is severely “lagging” behind Germany, specifically in how it penalizes long-term savers. “Bitcoin tax policy in the US is lagging Germany and many other countries. We don’t need more tokens and stablecoins, we need tax reform,” he said. The German standard In the United States, Bitcoin is treated as property for tax purposes, meaning…

Brave is betting that the future of Web3 gaming adoption will look less like DeFi dashboards and more like a reality-TV heist show that plays out across social media. The company behind the privacy-focused browser announced the Brave Games on Tuesday, as a multi-week “vault heist competition” that will unfold across the Brave browser, X, and Discord. “Brave Games is free and available to everyone. There’s no need for gaming expertise or technical knowledge,” Luke Mulks, VP of Business Operations at Brave, told Decrypt. “If you’re curious and like strategic thinking, you’re really going to enjoy this.” Beginning February 3,…

Uniswap Labs has launched Continuous Clearing Auctions on Arbitrum One for onchain token auctions, market price discovery, and auto v4 liquidity seeding. CCA is permissionless and free and uses max-price bids cleared each block to reduce sniping. Uniswap Labs has deployed Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA) on Arbitrum One, giving builders a new onchain way to launch tokens with open participation and transparent pricing. With the rollout, Arbitrum teams can run token auctions onchain, discover a clearing price through live bids, and then seed liquidity on Uniswap v4 at that same market price. Uniswap said CCA is permissionless and free to…

Ethereum appears to be stabilizing after a sharp correction. $ETH is trading near $2,950 after falling roughly 15.6% from its January highs before bouncing off key support. While the Ethereum price action still looks weak on the surface (11% down weekly), several underlying signals suggest conditions may be shifting. A completed bearish momentum reset, aggressive whale accumulation, and a sudden recovery in network usage are now lining up. Together, these signals raise an important question: is Ethereum setting up for a stronger rebound, or is this only a short-term bounce? Bearish Breakdown Plays Out as Volume Diverges and Whales Step…

American consumer confidence rose sharply in January, reaching its highest level in five months as people felt better about the economy and their own money situation. The University of Michigan’s final sentiment index climbed to 56.4, up 3.5 points from December. The reading came in above the early estimate and beat every forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The increase marked the largest monthly gain since June. Optimism improved across income levels, age groups, education backgrounds, and political affiliations. Fewer people brought up tariffs without being prompted. That share has now fallen for five straight months, based on the…

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, better known as the CLARITY Act, was supposed to draw clean lines around crypto assets and which regulator gets the first call. CryptoSlate has already walked readers through the bill’s larger architecture ahead of the January markup, including what changed, what stayed unresolved, and why jurisdiction and state preemption may matter as much as the headline definitions. The part consuming the most oxygen right now is narrower and much more nuanced: it’s about who can pay consumers to keep dollars parked in a particular place. That dispute became harder to ignore after Coinbase said…