Author: NBTC

Ethereum’s price has rebounded above $4,100 as U.S. investors rush to “buy the dip” amid a record Coinbase Premium spike. Summary Ethereum price rebounds above $4,100 as trading and derivatives volumes surge. Coinbase Premium spikes to +6.0, signaling strong U.S. institutional buying. Technicals show ETH stabilizing above $4,000 with bullish potential ahead. Ethereum traded around $4,134 at press time, bouncing back sharply after the Oct. 10 flash crash that briefly sent the token as low as $3,686. The 24-hour move added roughly 8% to ETH’s price and came alongside a notable rise in activity. Over the past dat, trading volume…

Bain & Co. predicted the AI sector is burning through their pockets, as the industry is expected to fall $800b short of its $2 trillion target. How will the projected slip-up affect the AI-crypto market? Summary Bain & Co. projects that AI will face an $800 billion revenue shortfall over the next five years as rising infrastructure costs outpace monetization, raising doubts about the industry’s sustainability. This uncertainty is spilling into the crypto sector, where AI-linked tokens and projects show mixed performance despite growing integrations between artificial intelligence and blockchain. Artificial intelligence is not doing as well as its growth…

Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure company acquired by payments giant Stripe, applied for a national bank trust charter with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), co-founder Zach Abrams said on Wednesday. The move would put the firm under federal regulatory oversight if approved by the regulator. Through the bank, company would provide services including custody, stablecoin issuance, management of stablecoin reserves, Abrams said. “We’ve long believed stablecoins will be a core, regulated financial building block,” Zach Abrams said in a Tuesday X post. “This regulatory infrastructure will enable us to tokenize trillions of dollars and make this…

U.S. President Donald Trump has a long list of crypto ventures, profiting to the tune of some $1 billion as of October 2025. Of them, a DeFi project dubbed World Liberty Financial might be the biggest. The platform, which President Trump co-founded, according to its website, along with his three sons, wants to make finance “reliable, open, and made for how the world works today.” World Liberty Financial was announced by President Trump’s son Eric in August 2024. It is led by DeFi builders Chase Herro and Zak Folkman, along with other members of the Trump family and Zach Witkoff—son…

Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley (MS) is moving deeper into digital assets, announcing a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zerohash to allow E*Trade clients to trade bitcoin BTC$112,795.83, ether (ETH) and solana SOL$218.34 starting in the first half of 2026, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Jed Finn, Morgan Stanley’s head of wealth management, told Bloomberg that the initiative is the first phase of a broader crypto strategy that will eventually include a full wallet solution. “The underlying technology has been proven and blockchain-based infrastructure is obviously here to stay,” Finn said in the interview, adding that clients should have access to…

Binance issued a harsh response to the allegations shared by an account on the X platform on October 14, 2025. In a statement, the company stated that the allegations were “unfounded, misleading, and damaging to reputation.” Binance maintained in its statement that it did not profit from the listing process and did not charge any listing fees. The company stated that the security deposit is collected solely for user protection and is used to ensure the continued operation of projects after listing. According to Binance, this deposit is generally refunded within one to two years under certain conditions. Additionally, cryptocurrency…

Shares of the large-scale mining companies that power the Bitcoin network are once again outperforming BTC itself, driven by the companies’ increasing shift toward hybrid models centered on artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). These companies, once called “miners” in analogy with mining traditional commodities like gold, have long been vulnerable to wild swings in the price of Bitcoin. The sector, which benefited from the first wave of the AI boom in 2023, saw its stock decline the following year as profits plummeted and competition intensified. However, the landscape has changed in 2025. Despite the crypto market’s decline in…

The Ethereum (ETH) price has rebounded sharply from its crash lows near $3,430, climbing to around $4,130 at press time — a gain of roughly 20%. While this looks like a strong recovery, the price chart and on-chain data suggest that the move may not be straightforward. Ethereum could continue to rise, but a temporary pullback might follow before the next leg higher takes shape. Whales Pick Up ETH, But Cautious Cohorts Keep the Market Split Ethereum’s current rebound appears to be driven by large wallets rather than smaller holders. Data from Santiment shows that whale wallets have increased their…

London-based blockchain payments company Fnality secured $136 million in a Series C funding round backed by some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Bank of America, Citi, KBC Group, Temasek, Tradeweb and WisdomTree led the round, joined by returning investors including Goldman Sachs, Santander, Barclays and UBS, according to a Tuesday announcement by the company. “The closing of our Series C reflects a shared conviction that the future of money demands a new foundation,” Fnality CEO Michelle Neal said. She added that the company’s blockchain-based settlement systems offer “24/7 payment rails, real-time settlement, and enhanced liquidity.” Fnality, which launched its…

What to Know: Lightspark buys Striga to expand regulated Bitcoin payments in Europe. Striga brings VASP licenses, APIs, and compliance expertise. The deal aims to merge open payments with legal banking rails for faster growth. Lightspark has officially acquired Striga, a move that could reshape how payments work in Europe. This acquisition unlocks regulated, built-in financial infrastructure that Lightspark can use to expand its vision of “open payments” using Bitcoin. What Are Lightspark and Striga? Lightspark wants to make money movement as easy as sending a message. They build tools that help fintechs, wallets, and banks use Bitcoin’s Lightning Network…