Author: NBTC

Ethereum has extended its lead as the world’s most active blockchain for developers in 2025. Between January and September, the network added 16,181 new developers, according to data released by the Ethereum Foundation. This figure consolidates Ethereum’s position as the leading hub for blockchain innovation and infrastructure development. Solana followed with 11,534 new contributors, reflecting the network’s appeal among developers working on decentralized finance (DeFi) and consumer-facing apps. Moreover, Ethereum also dominates in terms of ongoing engagement. The report shows 31,869 developers actively contributing code to Ethereum, nearly double the 17,708 contributing to Solana. Together, Ethereum and Solana now account…

Japan is cutting back on its ultra-long bond supply in October and December by ¥100 billion ($675 million) at each auction, trimming the amount offered to ¥250 billion from ¥350 billion, the Ministry of Finance announced after meeting with primary dealers on Wednesday. The decision affects bonds maturing between 15.5 and 39 years, which are part of the enhanced liquidity auctions. This is the second reduction this year targeting this specific end of the curve. The October and December cuts follow continued caution from policymakers amid volatile demand for long-term paper. Japan is also auctioning its 40-year bond on Thursday,…

A shareholder of healthcare technology company Semler Scientific filed a lawsuit seeking to block the company’s proposed merger with Strive, the asset manager turned Bitcoin treasury company led by former US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. According to a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, plaintiff Terry Tran accused Semler Scientific and its board of directors of violating Sections 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which ban misleading shareholder voting materials and hold company leaders liable for those violations. “The Registration Statement is materially incomplete and misleading with respect to…

Bybit Limited (Bybit Kazakhstan), a subsidiary of Bybit — the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume — and licensed by the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA), demonstrates the execution of crypto transactions with a QR code. The test transaction was sent during Central Asia’s largest fintech forum. Crypto QR payment use case demonstrated by Bybit Kazakhstan According to the official statement by Bybit Kazakhstan, a fully-owned subsidiary of top crypto exchange Bybit, it showcased the QR-authorized crypto transaction at Digital Bridge 2025 forum. Bybit Kazakhstan and AFSA Pioneer Stablecoin Payments for AIFC Regulatory FeesMazurka Zeng, Chief Operating Officer at…

SynFutures has flipped the switch on an invite-only private beta for what the team calls its most ambitious upgrade yet. The closed test is meant to be a controlled proving ground: a handful of handpicked partners will bootstrap liquidity, stress-test the new infrastructure and help SynFutures polish the trading experience before a wider public rollout. At the center of the upgrade is a technical rewrite that aims to push on-chain order execution down to roughly five millisecond latency, a speed more commonly associated with top centralized venues. The point, SynFutures says, is to bring that level of responsiveness to a…

Key takeaways ETH is trading around $4k per coin, down 1.7% in the last 24 hours. The leading altcoin could rally towards $4,300 soon amid choppy price action. Ethereum Foundation deploys 2,400 ETH and $6M on Morpho Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has been underperforming over the past 24 hours despite the Ethereum Foundation announcing its DeFi expansion to Morpho. The Ethereum Foundation announced on Wednesday that it is deploying 2,400 ETH, valued at about $9.3 million, and $6 million worth of stablecoins into the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Morpho. The team added that the funds will…

The majority of Russians save some money every month, in case of unforeseen expenses, and cryptocurrency is now among the assets in the buffer. While bank deposits are still widespread, crypto wallets are also among the popular choices. And for a small minority that’s likely to grow, they are the preferred option to store liquid funds. Over 80% of Russians maintain financial buffers The great majority of Russian citizens, 84%, save money on a monthly basis to have their own financial cushion, according to a new survey conducted by Sberbank’s life insurance unit, Sber Strakhovanie, and the employment website Rabota.ru.…

Italy’s financial markets regulator, Consob, has ordered the blackout of 17 websites that illegally offered investment and crypto-asset services. Several of these sites used fake advertisements featuring deepfaked images and voices of prominent Italian politicians. The websites cloned the likenesses of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, Elly Schlein, and Carlo Calenda to promote unauthorized financial services. None of the politicians had any connection to the activities. Consob banned several online platforms that promoted unauthorized investment and crypto-asset services. The regulator said these sites advertised illegal offerings and used misleading promotional content to attract investors. Join IG,…

Ventuals, a protocol designed for trading tokenized private and pre-IPO companies, launched its HYPE liquid staking vault today, which will be used to fund the protocol’s HIP-3 permissionless derivatives market on Hyperliquid. The launch included a minimum stake threshold of 500,000 HYPE, worth roughly $19 million, which was filled in just five minutes, with the top depositor contributing 250,000 HYPE. Users who deposited before the threshold was hit will receive a 10x multiplier on their points distribution and an official Ventuals NFT. Inflows continued to pour in, with a little over 1 million HYPE, worth $38 million, raised in the…

River (RIVER), a chain-abstraction network that unifies fragmented liquidity across Web3, announced a strategic partnership with Aerodrome Finance, a DEX (decentralized exchange) and a liquidity avenue built on the Base blockchain. The partnership enabled the integration of River’s chain-abstraction technology into Aerodrome’s liquidity marketplace, aiming to simplify Aerodrome’s DEX interaction with different chains by addressing the fragmentation problem in the DeFi environment. River is a chain-abstraction stablecoin network that links assets, liquidity, and yields across various blockchains. On the other hand, Aerodrome Finance is a decentralized exchange that functions as a key trading platform on the Base blockchain, serving as…