NBTC News
Home»Author: NBTC(Page 2353)

Author: NBTC

NBTC is the editorial account for NBTC News, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, exchanges, mining, regulation and digital asset markets. The editorial team focuses on clear sourcing, timely updates and practical context for crypto readers.

Legal

SEC admits certain crypto enforcement cases delivered no investor benefit

By NBTC

Some past enforcement actions against cryptocurrency companies lacked clear investor benefit and misinterpreted federal securities laws, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday. Since the 2022 fiscal year, the SEC brought 95 actions and $2.3 billion in penalties for “book-and-record violations,” it said in a statement about its enforcement results for 2025. “Together with seven crypto firm registration-related and six ‘definition of a dealer’ cases, these cases identified no direct investor harm from those violations, produced no investor benefit or protection.” It also reflected a “bias for volume of cases brought versus matters of investor protection,” a…

Read More
Blockchain

SentismAI Joins Ads3 to Bolster AI-Led Web3 Advertising Growth

By NBTC

SentismAI, an AI-driven growth and marketing platform, has collaborated with Ads3, an AI-powered advertising entity. The partnership attempts to incorporate cutting-edge>dApps, blockchain-based games, and crypto projects. We are pleased to announce a new partnership with @ads3_ai, a leading AI-powered ad intelligence platform in Web3. 🤝 Ads3 integrates on-chain and off-chain data to deliver precision-targeted advertising, flexible performance-based pricing models, and>pic.twitter.com/9ro4lwz2dp — Sentism.AI (@Sentism_ai) April 9, 2026 SentismAI and Ads3 Partner to Redefine Web3 Marketing with Precision Campaigns In partnership with Ads3, SentismAI is integrating off-chain and on-chain data for the provision of precisely targeted ad campaigns in the Web3 landscape.…

Read More
DeFi

Velora DAO Votes to Wind Down, Hand Operations to Laita Labs

By NBTC

Cross-chain DEX aggregator Velora has become the latest protocol to see its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) vs. Labs structure come under pressure. Today, April 10, Velora, formerly known as ParaSwap, passed PIP-77: Governance Evolution & Operational Alignment, a proposal to wind down its DAO and consolidate operations under Laita Labs, the development company that built the protocol. The proposal passed with 65.8% of voters for and 16.78% against the shift. 17.41% of voters abstained. The proposal transfers the roughly $415,000 remaining in the DAO treasury to Laita Labs to settle outstanding infrastructure costs. It also discontinues the DAO's 20% protocol…

Read More
Regulation

Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken Postpones Its IPO Due to Adverse Market Conditions

By NBTC

Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has suspended its initial public offering (IPO) plans due to deteriorating market conditions. According to sources close to the matter, the company has temporarily halted its IPO process, which aimed for a multi-billion dollar valuation, due to weakness in the cryptocurrency markets. Payward had filed a confidential application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in November. However, the market pullback following Bitcoin’s record highs put pressure on valuations, while falling trading volumes weakened investor appetite. These developments led the company to postpone its IPO process. It is stated that the…

Read More
Legal

SEC Releases Cryptocurrency Report for 2025! “We Failed!”

By NBTC

While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Gary Gensler preferred regulation through enforcement, the new SEC administration is adopting a more lenient approach towards cryptocurrencies. At this point, the new SEC under the Trump administration prefers to regulate cryptocurrencies through legal means rather than through sanctions. In its announcement regarding enforcement results for 2025, the SEC stated that it has initiated 95 cases and imposed $2.3 billion in fines for violations since fiscal year 2022. However, the SEC has acknowledged the flaws and failures in some of its past enforcement actions against crypto companies, and that these actions…

Read More
Blockchain

x402 protocol adds usage-based pricing for AI compute requests

By NBTC

Coinbase has announced an upgrade for the x402 protocol, enabling usage-based pricing for agentic AI compute requests, which replaces the former flat fee model. In a post on X on Thursday, Coinbase Developer Platform announced the "Upto" scheme has gone live, adding it will help open up "variable-cost services" for agentic AI such as large language model inference, compute and data queries. "Until now, x402 only supported exact, fixed-price payments. That works great for deterministic APIs. But it blocked an entire category of services where the cost depends on usage, such as token count, compute time, or query complexity," Coinbase…

Read More
Ethereum

Biconomy, Ethereum Foundation Unveil Execution Standard for AI Agents

By NBTC

Blockchain infrastructure company Biconomy has unveiled ERC-8211, an execution standard for on-chain AI agents, co-developed with the Ethereum Foundation, per an X post on April 7. The development falls under the EF’s Improve UX initiative. The new standard — referred to as "smart batching" — lets AI agents carry out complex, multi-step DeFi strategies without pre-encoding every parameter at signing time. The specification was published on April 6 alongside an open-source reference implementation and a live demo. The proposal lists four authors, primarily current and former Biconomy engineers: Mislav Javor, Filip Dujmušić, Filipp Makarov, and Venkatesh Rajendran. According to Biconomy’s…

Read More
Regulation

Citi Downgrades Crypto Exchange Gemini After Cutting Bitcoin, Ethereum Price Targets

By NBTC

Crypto exchange and custodian Gemini's stock dropped more than 16% after Citigroup analysts downgraded the company Wednesday morning, suggesting that it'll be years before the firm is profitable. The company, which trades on the Nasdaq under the GEMI symbol, saw its rating fall from Neutral to Sell, and Citi lowered its price target from $13 to $5.50, according to a note published Wednesday morning. At the time of writing, GEMI was changing hands for $5.95 per share after having dropped more than 16% since markets opened. Gemini was founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and went live the…

Read More
Legal

White House study bolsters crypto's stance in stablecoin yield fight against bankers

By NBTC

A White House report released Wednesday directly challenges the banking industry's claims that stablecoin yields would drain deposits and weaken lending to households and small businesses. Instead, banning those stablecoin rewards would have only a negligible impact on credit creation, the analysis, released by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), found. The White House economists behind the 21-page report said their findings are based on a stylized economic model calibrated with Federal Reserve and FDIC data on deposits, lending and bank liquidity, as well as industry disclosures on stablecoin reserves and academic estimates of how consumers shift funds between assets.…

Read More
Mining

Bitcoin miner fees are close to zero as cost to mine nears $80,000 with difficulty about to drop 5%

By NBTC

Bitcoin mining is still running on the subsidy, not demand. That is the more useful place to start as we head into the next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment window, which CoinWarz now estimates for April 18, 2026, with difficulty projected to fall from 138.97 trillion to 132.14 trillion, a decline of 4.91%. The schedule matters less than the structure underneath it. YCharts, using Blockchain.com data, showed daily Bitcoin transaction fees at 2.443 $BTC on April 8, down 69% from a year earlier. With the block subsidy fixed at 3.125 $BTC and the network producing roughly 144 blocks a day, fees are…

Read More