Author: NBTC

When questions began swirling across social channels about whether Aave’s latest upgrade would force users and integrations off the current stack, Kolten, Aave Labs’ Marketing Director for DeFi, sought to put doubts to rest. In a measured thread on X, he laid out the company’s position that Aave V3 will continue to operate “for the foreseeable future,” even after V4 lands, and there is “no rush” to deprecate the existing version. The post reads like a careful reassurance to the protocol’s large ecosystem of builders, integrators and institutional partners, some of whom have voiced concern that a hard pivot to…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed back against suggestions that the original Ethereum blockchain should be left to wither away in favor of a new, from-scratch network. Instead, Buterin has unveiled a highly ambitious strategy to rebuild the network from the inside out with the help of radical upgrades while keeping the existing system fully operational. An X user has argued that Buterin should allow the current iteration of Ethereum to “die a slow and painful death by fragmentation” with a highly sophisticated web of layer-2 rollups (L2s), app chains, and institutional involvement. The user claimed that Buterin should start…

The S&P 500 does not stay the same. It never has. Companies enter, companies leave. Some grow fast and earn a spot, while others shrink, merge, go private, or collapse. Stability is not how this index works. So perhaps this churn helps explain how the market behaves over time. Prices can rise while the lineup behind them shifts quietly. The S&P 500 today is not the same index from ten years ago. It is not even close. The market keeps replacing its own parts. Turnover changes leadership and investor outcomes Goldman Sachs analyst Ben Snider put numbers to this change.…

Democrats in the US House of Representatives are pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over how regulators are handling World Liberty Financial’s bid for a national trust bank charter to issue a dollar-backed token. In a Feb. 19 letter, 41 House Financial Services Committee Democrats led by Representative Gregory Meeks cited systemic risk, foreign ownership and potential political pressure on the bank chartering process. They asked Bessent to explain what safeguards exist to prevent foreign government officials or politically connected investors from using the charter process to gain leverage over the US financial system. ​The lawmakers pointed to reporting that a…

The crypto market rarely reacts without reason. When traders shift probabilities on prediction platforms, they usually follow hard signals. Recently, Polymarket traders pushed one name to the top of an insider investigation discussion, Meteora. That shift did not happen randomly. It reflects growing debate around the Meteora insider trading controversy. The spotlight intensified after a well known on chain investigator hinted at a deeper probe. Traders quickly connected the dots between recent meme coin activity and liquidity behavior on Solana. They began pricing Meteora as the most likely venue where informational advantages could have existed. This reaction reflects market logic,…

The rapid buildout of AI data centers has revived a long-running debate over energy consumption, with critics arguing that large computing operations, including Bitcoin mining, strain power grids and drive up electricity prices. As Cointelegraph previously reported, the surge in AI data center construction has fueled local resistance in several US regions, with residents and lawmakers raising concerns about power demand and rising electricity costs. Bitcoin (BTC) mining has increasingly been linked to the broader debate over high-density computing infrastructure. In a recent research note, crypto investment firm Paradigm pushed back on that narrative, arguing that Bitcoin mining is frequently…

Funton.ai, a major “Tap-to-Earn” (T2E) multi-game platform on Telegram and LINE, has announced its landmark strategic partnership with LF Wallet, a multi-chain, non-custodial wallet for storing assets and interacting across the ecosystem. The primary objective of this collaboration is to secure the multi-chain wallet in Web3 gaming for seamless flow. 🤝 https://t.co/UZaXmZkMH0 is partnering with @LFWallet!LF Wallet is a secure, non-custodial, multi-chain wallet built as the access layer between users and the #Web3 ecosystem, empowering users to safely manage digital assets and interact with decentralized applications… pic.twitter.com/t55PNzyWjX — Funton.ai (@funton_ai) February 23, 2026 LF Wallet has a successful history of…

Disagreements within a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) are a sign of a healthy DAO, according to Dr. Michael Egorov, founder of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Curve Finance. DAOs are a decentralized organizational structure that relies on smart contracts to automate functions and member voting to govern onchain protocols. Egorov said that both a 2024 governance proposal involving the Curve DAO and the recent dispute involving the Aave DAO illustrate the importance of disagreements to the structure’s vitality. He told Cointelegraph: “If everyone automatically agrees on something, it feels like people just don’t really care. They vote for whatever comes…

Ethereum has spent years trying to fix high fees, and recent upgrades finally made transactions cheaper. But while they solved one problem, they may have opened the door to another. Leon Waidmann, head of research at Lisk, noted in an X post on Wednesday, Feb. 18, that network activity is booming, with stablecoin volume hitting $7.5 trillion in a single quarter while transaction fees stayed under a dollar. “Record usage. Record cheap. At the same time. The biggest divergence between fundamentals and price in all of crypto right now,” he noted. But the growth may hide a more alarming reality.…

Bitcoin $BTC$92,121.34 climbed 1% Monday afternoon Hong Kong time as President Donald Trump’s escalating feud with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell rattled investors, sending both U.S. stock futures and the dollar index lower. Bitcoin rose to $92,000 but stayed inside last week’s price range of $89,000 to $95,000, per CoinDesk data. Nasdaq futures dropped 0.8%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.5%, and the dollar index slipped to 99.00 from Friday’s 99.26 peak. $BTC usually moves with the Nasdaq, but not this time, hinting at safe haven demand for the cryptocurrency – people wanting it as a “hideout” amid the escalating Trump-Powell…