Author: NBTC

Key Takeaways Venezuela’s IBC index surged from 2,000 to nearly 3,900 in early 2026, gaining over 100% YTD, with a 50% rally on Tuesday alone. The Caracas Stock Exchange rallied after the US captured Nicolás Maduro, boosting sentiment around post-Maduro reforms and foreign investment. Venezuela’s IBC index, which tracks performance on the Caracas Stock Exchange, has more than doubled in 2026, climbing from 2,000 at the start of the year to nearly 3,900 by Tuesday afternoon, according to Trading Economics data. The rally accelerated sharply following the January 3 capture of former President Nicolás Maduro by US authorities. The index…

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has revealed that his trial was more about the U.S. government trying to stifle crypto development than his legal offenses. In a recent interview pushed out by the All-In Podcast, the founder of Binance, CZ, explicitly stated to host Chamath Palihapitiya that he believes his prosecution was “highly aggressive” under the Biden administration’s DOJ. Was the Biden DOJ’s prosecution of CZ a ‘political war’ on crypto? The All-In Podcast recently released an episode in which Changpeng Zhao characterized the Biden administration’s Department of Justice as being “uniquely aggressive.” “Before me, nobody got put in jail,” CZ told…

Upbit, one of South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced it will end support for trading the Loopring ($LRC) token. According to the official statement, the exchange will cease $LRC trading on March 16th. As a result of this decision, trading support for Loopring on the Upbit platform will be completely terminated. Such delisting decisions are generally made based on the liquidity of the asset, developments on the project side, regulatory requirements, and the exchange’s user protection policies. Upbit’s statement did not provide details regarding the reasoning behind the decision. With the delisting process underway, users are advised to review…

A new European holding is disrupting the mineral asset sector with a proposition that prioritizes traceability and corporate governance over the traditional extraction model: ASTON MINING S.L. positions itself as an intermediary between Latin American resources and European institutional capital through exhaustive digitalization of asset information. The company, chaired by Josep Maria Gallart, structures each mineral asset through technical, legal, and economic verification processes designed to overcome banking audits and institutional fund due diligence, according to corporate documents reviewed by this newsroom. Traceability as Financial Asset ASTON MINING integrates permissioned distributed ledger technology to guarantee the immutability of critical data…

Ethereum Foundation AI lead Davide Crapis and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin have proposed a way to use zero-knowledge proofs and other methods to ensure that a user’s interactions with large language models are private, while preventing spam and abuse. API calls occur every time a user sends a message to a software application, such as an AI chatbot. Crapis and Buterin said in a blog post on Wednesday that a core challenge for both users and providers is privacy, security, and efficiency. “We need a system where a user can deposit funds once and make thousands of API calls anonymously,…

According to a recent report by the Financial Times, Telegram, a cryptocurrency-friendly messaging app, is poised for a significant revenue surge in 2025. The company has significantly improved its financial performance ahead of a potential initial public offering (IPO) and a possible stock exchange launch associated with the IPO process. According to unaudited financial data, Telegram’s revenue reached $870 million in the first half of 2025. This represents a remarkable 65% year-on-year increase compared to $525 million in the same period last year. Management has set a revenue target of $2 billion for the full year, one of the most…

The top Democrat on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee demanded the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission explain during a Wednesday hearing what happened with the agency’s enforcement interest in Tron Foundation founder Justin Sun and whether his ties to President Donald Trump have had an influence. Representative Maxine Waters highlighted the U.S. securities regulators’ abandonment of almost all of its previous crypto enforcement cases when Trump took over the White House and replaced the agency’s leadership last year. She underlined the case against Sun in which the agency investigated Sun and his company on wide-ranging allegations, including…

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has denied a viral claim. It’s about the exchange’s actions during the 2020 market crash. On February 13, CZ responded to a widely shared post that accused Binance of earning more than 60K $BTC on BitMEX. The claim suggested Binance hedged user positions before the March 2020 crash. Additionally, it recorded the largest withdrawal and profit in BitMEX history. 4. Fake news. They just making things up randomly now. Not sure what their goal is. I feel bad for the people believing this without seeing any proof. 😂Binance never traded on BitMex. @CryptoHayes (a friend)…

Abu Dhabi–based Venom Foundation has fully integrated the ChainConnect protocol to offer what it calls institutional-grade, intermediary-free cross-chain transactions. The integration enables atomic swaps between Threaded Virtual Machine (TVM)-compatible networks, including Venom itself, TON, Everscale and Hamster Network, and EVM chains, allowing tokens to move as single, indivisible operations that either complete in full or revert without partial settlement. The move positions the network to handle tokenized asset transfers for clients with the highest security requirements, such as central banks and sovereign wealth funds, because it removes custody risks associated with third-party intermediaries. ChainConnect’s approach to TVM–EVM interoperability has been…

Fundstrat head of research Tom Lee said he expects Ether to rebound quickly following recent declines, arguing the asset has experienced eight such recoveries since 2018. “A lot of people are frustrated, but keep in mind that Ethereum, since 2018, has fallen more than 50% eight times,” Lee said at a conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Last year, Ethereum fell 64% from January to March, he added. “But eight out of eight times, Ethereum has had a V-shaped bottom. So it has recovered 100% of the time within almost the same speed that it fell.” He argued that nothing…