Author: NBTC

More than half of wealthy Asian investors in a recent survey say they plan to increase their portfolio exposure to cryptocurrency over the next few years. Sygnum’s APAC HNWI Report 2025 found that 6 in 10 of the surveyed Asian high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are prepared to increase their crypto allocations based on a strong two- to five-year outlook. It polled 270 HNWIs with more than $1 million in investable assets and professional investors with over ten years of experience across ten APAC countries, mainly in Singapore, but including Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand. The findings also revealed that…

Brian Armstrong showed up at the Capitol on Thursday to stop what he saw as a direct hit on Coinbase’s business. His goal was clear: keep the company’s stablecoin rewards alive. Brian walked the halls himself, not sending anyone else, because a Senate committee was about to vote on a bill that could block the company from paying users rewards for holding stablecoins. A day earlier, Brian had posted online slamming the bill. Within hours, Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott pulled it from the agenda. That single post stalled a bill that had been in the works for years. Speaking…

Binance has announced it will remove certain margin trading pairs from its platform to maintain trading quality and enhance user security in margin markets. According to the official statement from the exchange, trading on specific Cross Margin and Isolated Margin trading pairs will cease on January 15, 2026, at 09:00 AM. According to the announcement, the trading pairs to be excluded from Cross Margin include AUDIO/BTC, SUSHI/BTC, MTL/BTC, IOTX/ETH, SLP/ETH, TRB/BTC, PYR/BTC, EGLD/BTC, ENS/BTC, APE/BTC, NEO/BTC, NMR/BTC, SHIB/DOGE, and MINA/BTC. The list for Isolated Margin is broader, with pairs such as AUDIO/BTC, CTSI/BTC, ATOM/ETH, WAN/BTC, MOVR/BTC, OXT/BTC, STORJ/BTC, YFI/BTC, FLUX/BTC,…

Ethereum finds itself in an unusual position where the fundamentals are strengthening, but capital flows remain hesitant. On-chain activity and the real-world tokenization of assets point to a network that is becoming increasingly useful and more deeply embedded in financial infrastructure. The price action movement shows that ETH is stuck in a range where it is struggling to attract sustained momentum. Why Fundamentals And Price Are Diverging Ethereum is stuck in the middle, with the price hovering around $3,300, which is slightly up from earlier this month, but it remains compressed within the same triangle that has been forming since…

Stock market index MSCI’s proposed exclusion of companies holding more than 50% of their crypto on their balance sheets would be akin to pushing out multinational energy companies like Chevron for holding oil, argues Strategy CEO Phong Le. The MSCI Index announced in October that it was consulting with the investment community about whether to exclude Bitcoin and other digital asset treasury companies (DATs) that have the majority of their balance sheet in crypto. During an interview with the Schwab Network on Wednesday, a streaming and market-analysis channel, Le said that he has “a lot of respect for the indexes,”…

Crypto lending company Nexo Capital will pay a $500,000 to California’s financial regulator over allegations it issued thousands of loans to state residents without properly assessing their ability to repay. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) said on Wednesday that Nexo made at least 5,456 consumer and commercial loans to Californians without a valid license. “Before making a loan, Nexo Capital generally did not evaluate the borrower’s ability to make timely repayments, existing debt, credit history, or other documents relating to the borrower’s overall financial condition,” the regulator said. DFPI Commissioner KC Mohseni said lenders “must follow…

The 21Shares Bitcoin and Gold ETP, known as BOLD, begins trading on the London Stock Exchange on Jan.13, offering an exchange-traded vehicle designed to deliver bitcoin-like returns with lower volatility. BOLD blends the world’s two most liquid alternative assets in a single risk-weighted portfolio and will be the first U.K. listed product offering both within a single exchange-traded vehicle. The introduction follows the lifting of U.K. restrictions on crypto exchange-traded products in October and comes amid rising demand for regulated digital asset investments. In the first month after the ban ended, the exchange noted $280 million of trading volume in…

Ethereum price rally lost momentum this week, moving from a high of $3,387 on January 13 to the current $3,288 as concerns about the Market Structure Bill rose. Summary ETH price has pulled back in the past few days as demand for cryptocurrencies waned. Ethereum has encouraging fundamentals, including higher network activity. The token has formed a rising wedge chart pattern on the daily chart. Ethereum (ETH) token has dropped by 33% from its highest level in August last year, mirroring the performance of the broader crypto market. The token has pulled back despite its strong fundamentals. For example, data…

Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, has concluded that introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is “not warranted at this time,” marking a clear signal that the country is reconsidering the urgency of retail and wholesale CBDCs. The central bank said Wednesday that Norway’s existing payment system already offers secure, efficient and low-cost transactions, reducing the need for a CBDC in the near term. However, the bank remains open to launching a CBDC in the future but sees no present conditions that justify a rollout at this time. “Norges Bank has concluded that introducing a central bank digital…

A 54-year-old Utah man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for operating an unlicensed cash-to-crypto business and defrauding investors of nearly $3 million. Brian Garry Sewell of Washington County was sentenced to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to wire fraud. The judge also ordered more than $3.8 million in combined restitution, including payments to investors and the Department of Homeland Security. The sentence will run concurrently with a separate three-year term imposed in another federal case involving an unlicensed money-transmitting business, according to the Justice Department.  The case…