Author: NBTC

Ethereum’s holding steady at a confident $4,500, with a market cap of $543 billion and a crisp 24-hour trading volume of $36.86 billion. But don’t get too relaxed—its intraday range from $4,446 to $4,583 shows this crypto’s still got some tricks up its sleeve to keep traders on edge. Ethereum Chart Outlook and Price Prediction If you thought ethereum was going to cruise through the week on autopilot, think again. The daily chart is sending mixed signals dressed up as opportunity. We’re witnessing a recovering uptrend with a classic V-shaped rebound from its capitulation zone near $3,820. High volume at…

SoFi Technologies, the $30 billion publicly traded online bank best known for student loan refinancing and stock trading, is getting ready to roll out its own stablecoin, alongside other crypto services. During Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference 2025 earlier this month, SoFi CEO Anthony Noto revealed that the company sees crypto as touching “every part of our business, payment capabilities, lending capabilities, investing capabilities, tech platform capabilities,” according to Seeking Alpha’s transcript of Noto’s speech. The San Francisco-based neobank previously offered crypto trading, but paused the service in 2023 due to regulatory uncertainty, redirecting its crypto customers to Blockchain.com.…

Ethereum (ETH) is trading at $4,531, up 1.6% in the last 24 hours, with a daily trading volume of $42.5 billion. The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency now holds a market capitalization of $547 billion. In the past 24 hours, ETH moved between a low of $4,444 and a high of $4,616. The token remains about 8% below its all-time high of $4,953, recorded in late August. The rebound has allowed Ethereum to reclaim the $4,500 support level, a key technical zone watched by experts. If ETH can recover the $4,750 range, the conditions may be in place for a new all-time…

The tokenized stock market is expanding fast, yet nearly all activity is concentrated in Backed and Ondo Global Markets, which dominate trading with popular U.S. tech shares and ETFs. While most offerings are synthetic, platforms exploring true ownership are emerging. Summary Tokenized stocks are growing quickly, but the market is almost entirely dominated by Backed and Ondo Global Markets. Most of these tokenized stocks are synthetic, tracking popular U.S. tech shares and ETFs on Ethereum and Solana, while only a few platforms, like Superstate Opening Bell, are experimenting with giving investors true ownership. The rapid growth shows blockchain can attract…

Ethereum is currently trading at $4,544, with a total market capitalization of $548 billion. The 24-hour trading volume stands at $38.59 billion, and the intraday price range has spanned from $4,447 to $4,610, reflecting moderate volatility and sustained market activity. Ethereum Chart Outlook and Price Prediction The daily chart is painting a recovery masterpiece. After an early stumble that dragged prices from nearly $4,768 to a sobering low of $3,820, ethereum bounced back like a caffeinated kangaroo. Multiple green daily candlesticks have strutted in, setting higher highs and higher lows, while increased volume on the up days implies this isn’t…

OpenAI has overtaken SpaceX to become the world’s most valuable private company after a $6.6 billion employee share sale at a $500 billion valuation—the milestone underscoring the investor frenzy fueling the artificial-intelligence boom. According to a Bloomberg report, the secondary sale lets current and former staff who had held shares for at least two years sell stock to a handful of companies, including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX, and T. Rowe Price. The deal marks OpenAI’s second major tender offer in under a year, following a $1.5 billion SoftBank transaction last November. In January, the…

SWIFT — the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication — will be building its recently announced blockchain payment settlement platform on Ethereum layer 2 Linea, Consensys CEO Joe Lubin has confirmed. On Monday, SWIFT revealed that it had tapped Consensys and over 30 TradFi institutions to build infrastructure for a 24/7 real-time crypto payments system — but didn’t confirm which chain it would build on despite widespread speculation that it would be Linea. However, Lubin confirmed Linea’s selection in a fireside chat with Cointelegraph’s Gareth Jenkinson at the Token2049 conference in Singapore on Thursday. Lubin said that during SWIFT’s announcement…

With the crypto economy vaulting past the $4 trillion milestone, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) is stacking higher by the day. TVL needs just a 7.04% lift to outshine the all-time peak set back in November 2021. DeFi Titans Push Toward 2021 Record In the last 24 hours, defillama.com stats show that DeFi added $3.677 billion to its TVL, edging closer to the $178.841 billion record set on Nov. 9, 2021. The value locked still needs another $11.754 billion boost to topple the record. This milestone chase comes as the broader crypto economy sits at $4.21…

A new report on VC fundraising in the crypto space provides interesting conclusions. The sector is undergoing deep consolidation, with fewer projects receiving substantially more capital. Sectors like DeFi, AI, and blockchains are getting a lot of interest, whereas RWAs, DePIN, NFTs, and GameFi are falling by the wayside. Aligning with major players’ preferences may be the only way to receive fresh inflows. Crypto VC Fundraising Analyzed A few months ago, VC fundraising in the crypto space was in full swing, with institutional investment powering $10 billion in inflows in Q2 alone. Since then, however, this sector has apparently cooled…

Qitmeer Network, an open blockchain for Shariah-compliant financial inclusion, has partnered with StarSphere, a popular AI creator economy platform. The partnership aims to redefine the creator economy at the intersection of Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI). As Qitmeer Network’s official social media announcement reveals, the collaboration highlights the rising significance of merging AI-led platforms with blockchain innovation. Hence, the initiative is poised to accelerate content creation, community-led growth, and monetization in the wider digital economy. Partnership Announcement! 📣We are happy to be partnered with @The_StarSphere 🤝📖 StarAI is a top AI + Web3 content platform supporting over 8 million creators.…