Author: NBTC

A16z Crypto posted an infographic by Claire Kart describing the history of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs. She looked back as far as 2019 when everything was small with few resources. She is aware of 80 percent of the timeline by 2025, which underscores personal and industry development. 6 years ago, when i first started working in zk, it was a tiny community of cryptographers and i understood nothingplus there were no resources to learntoday, i read this and understood 80% of itgo find the thing that literally melts your face and try to understand it pic.twitter.com/QrPr4boloK — Claire Kart (@clairekart) October…

Ethereum price faces pressure after rejection from $4,200 resistance. Price now trends toward key support levels as weakening structure hints at a potential broader accumulation range. Summary $4,200 rejection confirms short-term bearish trend. Price targets $3,437 support amid liquidity sweep. Range likely to form between $3,437 and $4,200 before expansion. Ethereum’s (ETH) price is showing signs of weakness after a harsh rejection from the $4,200 resistance zone, a key technical level that had previously acted as a pivot for bullish continuation. The inability to reclaim this region has shifted short-term sentiment bearish, with price now trending lower toward the value…

Cryptocurrency firms have been rushing to issue initial public offerings (IPO) this year; however, they’ve not all been winners for investors who get in when these stocks are finally offered publicly. Among five firms analyzed by Protos — Circle, Galaxy Digital, Bullish, Gemini, and eToro — only two of them — Circle and Galaxy Digital — currently trade above their initial price. Galaxy Digital was also not technically an IPO, as it had previously traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but it did offer an underwritten public offering of its stock as part of its listing on the NASDAQ exchange.…

Snowball Money has signed a strategic agreement with a multi-VM blockchain platform named Arichain. The joint venture was announced on October 22, 2025, that includes Snowball Modular Naming Service (MNS) and parallel virtual machine architecture the architecture created by Arichain. The partnership addresses the issue of fragmentation of identity in Web3 that allows users to have one portable identity on EVM, SVM, and beyond, which is a primary step towards real blockchain interoperability. Breaking Down Virtual Machine Barriers Arichain is differentiated from its Multi-VM Execution Layer, where more than one virtual machine can operate under a single governance. Arichain is…

Wall Street’s interest in Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies is growing exponentially. However, some companies are hesitant about where and how to start when entering the crypto space. Aware of this, the Ethereum (ETH) Foundation announced its new move. Accordingly, the Ethereum Foundation has introduced the website “institutions.ethereum.org” for institutions, developed by the Enterprise Acceleration team, to promote the network and guide businesses adopting Ethereum. The Ethereum Foundation has announced the launch of a new website designed to provide clear pathways for companies to transition from the traditional finance ecosystem to the Ethereum ecosystem and to bring more institutions into the…

Consensys, the blockchain software company behind the MetaMask wallet, plans to go public and has chosen JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs as lead underwriters for its initial public offering, Axios reported Wednesday. The listing would mark one of the most significant public debuts yet by a firm building the infrastructure of Ethereum ETH$4,027.87, the world’s second-largest blockchain. Founded by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys develops tools that allow users and developers to interact with Ethereum applications. Its best-known product, MetaMask, serves as a digital wallet used by millions to store crypto, manage tokens, and connect to decentralized applications directly from…

Crypto exchange Gate is blending the performance of centralized exchanges with “cutting-edge” decentralized infrastructure as part of a push to provide a full ecosystem for more than 42 million users worldwide. “Our shift from a traditional exchange to a full Web3 operating system isn’t just an idea anymore,” the platform’s CEO Dr. Han told Decrypt. “It’s happening right now.” He added that the third quarter of 2025 marked a “defining moment” for Gate. “We accelerated our ‘All in Web3’ strategy, our futures and spot businesses both reached record highs, with total users surpassing 42 million and derivatives trading volume surging…

Blockchain isn’t a proof of concept anymore — it’s becoming financial infrastructure in 2025. In Q3, legacy institutions quietly crossed the line from testing to building. A new report shows that banks, payment networks, and cloud providers — from SWIFT and to Google Cloud and Visa —are now leveraging blockchain at scale — reshaping how global finance moves, settles, and stores value. Q3 2025 Becomes a Turning Point for Global Blockchain Integration The Q3 2025 Crypto x TradFi Community Report from Messari highlighted how the quarter became a defining moment in the integration of traditional finance and crypto. Major enterprises…

Analysts at investment firm Bernstein initiated coverage of SharpLink Gaming with an “outperform” rating on Thursday, saying the Ethereum treasury firm’s shares could nearly double as the Federal Reserve lowers borrowing costs. Bernstein analysts issued a price target of $24 per share for SharpLink, representing an 80% increase from current prices. The firm’s shares recently changed hands around $13.08, after peaking at $124.12 earlier this year, according to Yahoo Finance. “We expect SBET to emerge as a compliant-first-institutional focused investment vehicle to access Ethereum as an investment and yield-generating asset,” the analysts wrote. “As we head into a lower rate…

Securitize, a real-world asset tokenization platform, has unveiled a tokenized fund designed to give investors access to AAA-rated collateralized loan obligations onchain. The fund is being developed in partnership with global investment bank BNY Mellon. According to Wednesday’s announcement, BNY will safeguard the fund’s underlying assets, while a subsidiary of the bank will manage the fund’s portfolio. With global collateralized loan obligation issuance topping $1.3 trillion, Securitize and BNY aim to bring AAA-rated floating-rate credit onchain, the company said. Pending governance approval within the Sky Ecosystem, Grove, an institutional-grade credit protocol, plans to anchor the fund with a $100 million…