Author: NBTC

Crypto adoption accelerated in 2025, with India and the United States setting the pace, according to TRM Labs. From January through July, South Asia recorded the world’s fastest growth, up 80% from 2024, and reached roughly $300 billion in transaction volume on expanding retail use and digital payments. India held the top spot for the third straight year, followed by the U.S., Pakistan, the Philippines, and Brazil. The U.S. remained the largest market by transaction volume, with estimates topping $1 trillion, that’s a 50% rise over 2024, supported by policy efforts that included the GENIUS Act and the White House…

Shares of Singapore-based Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies fell nearly 20% on Monday after the company reported a jump in quarterly losses. Bitdeer recorded a net loss of $266.7 million for the third quarter of 2025, compared with a net loss of $50.1 million for the same period a year ago, largely due to non-cash losses resulting from the revaluation of its convertible debt. Revenue climbed to $169.7 million, up 174% from the previous year, driven by the expansion of its self-mining operations, according to the company. BTDR closing price on Monday. Source: Google Finance Bitdeer also reported gains in its…

Reload Airdrop campaign by BNB Chain and Four Meme has been able to reach yet another milestone with the fourth round of distribution completed. Information provided by on-chain analytic system Lookonchain proves that 6,717 BNB amounting to around 6.4 million was airdropped to 31,425 wallets in the most recent round with the support of BNB Chain. The 4th batch of the $45M Reload Airdrop has been completed — 6,717 $BNB($6.4M now) was distributed to 31,425 wallets.So far, the $45M Reload Airdrop by @BNBCHAIN and @four_meme_ has airdropped 29,000 $BNB($27.61M now) to 151,419 wallets across 4 batches. https://t.co/jNOzj32BJD — Lookonchain (@lookonchain)…

Key takeaways Ether is down 6% in the last 24 hours and is now trading around $3,500. The coin could retest the daily resistance at $3,350 in the near term. Ether slips to $3,500 Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has lost 6% of its value in the last 24 hours and is now trading at $3,502 per coin. The bearish performance comes as the broader cryptocurrency market continues to bleed. The coin’s negative trend also comes despite Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion (BMNR) announcing on Monday that it added 82,353 ETH to its balance sheet. The latest acquisition…

The crypto market in 2025 has shown a clear pattern: narratives rise and vanish as quickly as waves. By October, data revealed that discussions around the most promising themes had almost completely faded. This article explains the sudden change based on available data and expert insights. Narratives Disappeared Rapidly in October Google Trends data highlighted a striking phenomenon in October 2025. Interest in topics such as Privacy Coins, Perps DEXs, Tokenized Gold, and Digital Asset Treasuries dropped sharply. Just a month earlier, the community had been actively debating these themes and selecting promising projects to hold through the end of…

Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technology Group (NASDAQ: BTDR) saw its stock close down 20% on Monday after the company reported a net loss of $266.7 million for its third quarter, marking a 422% decline from the previous year.  BitDeer’s loss per share was -$1.28, down from -$0.35 in Q3 2024 and below Zacks Investment Research’s consensus estimate of -$0.22. The firm, however, nearly tripled its revenue to $169.7 million from $62 million last year, beating Zacks’ forecast. BTDR closed Monday at $17.64 per share, according to Yahoo Finance data, giving up gains it had made over the past month. The company’s…

Pieverse, the Web3 payment infrastructure platform, has demonstrated that it will increase its x402b payment protocol onto the Arbitrum network in a considerable amount. This strategic deposit transition makes the transactions on Ethereum, which are audit-ready and gas-free, become the largest Layer-2 scaling platform. It is a continuation of the recent Pieverse $10M round of funding and a successful launch on BNB Chain. Bridging Enterprise Needs with Layer-2 Efficiency Pieverse first unveiled its protocol on the BNB Chain in October 2025, but it receives a bridged inefficiency on Arbitrum enables it to access a larger ecosystem. Arbitrum currently has over…

As the broader cryptocurrency market experiences massive capital outflows, a whale has suffered a costly misstep, dumping thousands of Ethereum (ETH) at a steep loss after attempting to time the market bottom. The wallet identified as ‘0x1b57’ offloaded 5,570 ETH, approximately $19.56 million, over several hours, sending the funds to Binance in three large batches: 2,070 ETH ($7.26M), 2,000 ETH ($7.01M), and 1,500 ETH ($5.28M), according to the latest on-chain data obtained by Finbold from Arkham on November 4. The trader had accumulated the same amount of ETH just five days earlier from Binance hot wallets but quickly capitulated as…

When I worked at the Federal Reserve, we used to joke that our job was to protect the status quo. The Fed’s mandate has long included financial stability, certainly not financial disruption. But Fed Governor Chris Waller’s speech calling on Fed staff to research the creation of a new “payments account” for nonbank payment providers at this week’s Fed Payments Innovation Conference marks the first serious challenge to the assumption that only banks get to move money in America and who is allowed access to the Fed’s balance sheet. When I wrote in 2023 that “stablecoins are the battleground for…

On Monday, a Bitcoin trader made a purchase worth millions of dollars, buying $10 worth of the digital currency from his online broker and sending it to the popular cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. It should have been a routine deal, but it quickly escalated into a substantial loss. The user did not pay a realistic fee, but rather incorrectly set 0.99 BTC as the fee amount (approximately $105,000 at today’s market prices). To put this into perspective, the BTC network will not confirm even high-priority transactions if the fee is less than one coin. This amounts to an overpayment of more…