Author: NBTC

ProShares’ new ETF built for the fast-growing, $300 billion world of stablecoins had a massive launch, fueling speculation that one major stablecoin issuer may be involved. The fund, called the ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF (IQMM), is designed to hold short-term U.S. Treasuries and meet the reserve requirements laid out in the GENIUS Act, a federal law regulating stablecoin issuers in the U.S. It’s the first ETF structured specifically to fit those rules, and that positioning may have caught the attention of some of the largest players in crypto. The ETF logged a whopping $17 billion in trading volume on…

Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said 11 companies have been granted access to a regulatory sandbox to test cryptocurrency and digital asset services under the country’s Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025. The program allows companies to run their products in a controlled environment while regulators monitor risks and compliance. The sandbox will run for 12 months and sits at the center of Ghana’s early efforts to bring oversight to the crypto sector, according to a press release. Companies in the first cohort include asset tokenization firms like Africoin, Blu Penguin, Vaulta, XChain and Goldbod as well as cryptocurrency…

Kraken’s tokenized stock platform, xStocks, has unveiled xChange, a multi-chain execution layer for tokenized equity trading. The new platform enables cross-chain transactions on Ethereum and Solana, and supports over 70 tokenized stocks directly on-chain, according to an announcement from Kraken today, March 5. By supporting cross-chain trading, xChange aims to boost liquidity and accessibility, allowing traders to operate seamlessly across two largest blockchain networks in DeFi by total value locked. Ethereum and Solana, the two blockchains supported by xChange, have a DeFi TVL of approximately $58.6 billion and $8.2 billion, respectively, per data from DefiLlama. The new execution layer for…

Many Bitcoin miners are struggling to turn a profit this market cycle due to diminishing returns, so they may need to pivot to artificial intelligence hosting or put their holdings to work to generate yields, says market maker Wintermute. Wintermute said in a blog post on Thursday that Bitcoin ($BTC) miners have spent years building large-scale power infrastructure in low-cost energy markets, and they now find themselves “sitting on exactly what the AI industry needs most urgently and cannot easily replicate.” It said that Bitcoin mining is a “structurally rigid business model,” and while the AI pivot is a compelling…

GitHub, a primary, centralized, and cloud-based hosting platform for open-source blockchain, cryptocurrency, and Web3 projects, has displayed the data of the previous six months, based on the most active crypto projects. Three main parameters determine the activeness of crypto projects, such as contributors, commits, and price change. GitHub has displayed the list of the top 10 projects of the last six months. A commit in GitHub refers to a snapshot of the project that is taken at any time to check the entire repository at a certain point in time. Here are the projects: Internet Computer ($ICP), Mina Protocol ($MINA),…

DeFi is evolving from purely speculative trading to a more sophisticated model based on>Collably and AlloX seeks to provide a seamless way for investors to convert complex market sentiments and “narratives” into risk-managed crypto assets. This has been accomplished through improved capital allocation and giving investors more authentic investment opportunities within the crypto space. Intelligence Meets Network Infrastructure The combination of the Collably Network and AlloX’s AI Engine will reduce the barriers to entry for individuals wishing to implement professional-grade investment techniques. Collably is an expert in building ecosystems and developing a collaborative infrastructure for anyone to use. Through this…

The number of active daily Ethereum ($ETH) addresses has declined dramatically over the past month or so, signaling a sharp cooldown in on-chain participation. To be specific, the figure hasdropped from 1,329,193 on February 7 to 746,062 on March 3, marking a roughly 45% decline, as specified by data Finbold retrieved from Etherscan. How drastic the change has been is evident in the fact that February 7 levels were close to the record number of 1,420,187 active $ETH addresses recorded on Friday, December 9, 2022. Naturally, the decline comes amid persistent price weakness and reflects the broader market’s struggle to…

Bitcoin slid back toward $67,000 in Sunday trading as trade uncertainty resurfaced, with investors weighing fresh tariff escalation against a shifting legal backdrop in the U.S. BTC was trading around $67,526, down about 1.4% over the past 24 hours and roughly 2.1% on the week. The move follows President Donald Trump’s decision to raise the worldwide tariff rate to 15% from 10%, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that invalidated earlier emergency trade measures. The court’s decision had briefly appeared to limit Washington’s ability to deploy sweeping tariffs ahead of Trump’s planned March 31 visit to Beijing. Instead, the administration…

Lawyers for Chen Zhi, the Chinese-born businessman behind Cambodia-based Prince Holding Group, accused of links to global scam operations, have filed a motion in US federal court challenging the government’s seizure of 127,271 Bitcoin associated with him, according to a new report from Bloomberg. In October 2025, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Justice Department’s National Security Division filed a civil forfeiture case to seize the Bitcoin stash connected to the Prince Holding Group. Prosecutors tied the funds to alleged “pig-butchering” scams and other illicit activities connected to Chen and his Prince Holding…

Coinbase is the most regulated, most publicly accountable cryptocurrency exchange in the world. It was the first crypto company to list on a major stock exchange (Nasdaq, April 2021), the first crypto-native company to join the S&P 500 (May 2025), holds $516 billion in customer assets, and operates under stricter regulatory oversight than any other exchange in its class. It is also, by most measures, the most expensive major exchange to use — and not always the most feature-rich for experienced traders. That tension defines Coinbase: maximum trust, maximum accessibility, maximum compliance — at a premium price. Whether that trade-off…