Author: NBTC

As bitcoin maintains its orbit just north of $97,000 globally, South Korea’s digital currency enthusiasts are navigating a stratospheric valuation of $101,479 per unit—a celestial discrepancy rooted in local dynamics. South Korea’s Crypto Fever Sparks Ongoing Bitcoin Price Premium This persistent premium, documented by cryptoquant.com since mid-January, reflects a dual-engine mechanism unique to the nation. Rigid capital controls and labyrinthine financial rules stifle cross-border arbitrage, cementing a sustained divergence between domestic and international exchange rates. Compounding this phenomenon, South Korea’s feverish appetite for crypto propels demand to heights unseen elsewhere, ensuring local bitcoin valuations perpetually outpace global benchmarks. The economic…

Velar, a Bitcoin DeFi protocol, has partnered with Mezo to integrate mUSD stablecoin functionality with its perpetual decentralized exchange (PerpDex). Through collaboration, Velar users would be able to obtain mUSD with 1:1 backing from Bitcoin ($BTC), which enables stable trading and liquidity provisions on the platform. The planned Q2 2025 launch enables Bitcoin ($BTC) holders to borrow mUSD from their $BTC at low interest rates. The platform allows users to improve capital utilization by maintaining ownership of their $BTC while gaining liquidity options. The introduction of mUSD will allow Velar to improve decentralized trading and provide users with a stable…

Canada’s economy is getting smoked. The Small Business Confidence Index has collapsed nearly 60% in just a few months. That’s not a typo. Even at the lowest point of the 2008 financial crisis, confidence was 10 points higher than it is now. Things are falling apart. And no one’s even bothering to sugarcoat it. Confidence is crashing faster than it did during the March 2020 lockdowns. By early 2025, small business sentiment had already started slipping. But once the trade war with the U.S. kicked off, it dropped to 25—the lowest reading ever recorded. Nothing else comes close. Consumer confidence…

$TRUMP is again in the news as the cryptocurrency trader “4v7nG” completed a high-profile transaction of 101,874 $TRUMP coins exchanging for 2.495 million $CAR tokens within a time span of only three hours and the total transfer amount reached $1.52 million. The speedy exchange reflects a rising belief in $CAR because it represents the newly launched meme coin linked to the Central African Republic. This smart trader shifted his winning $TRUMP for $CAR —the newly launched memecoin by the Central African Republic!In the past 3 hours, trader “4v7nG” swapped 101,874 $TRUMP ($1.52M) for 2.495M $CAR at an average price of…

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has told Fox Business that the company is seeing a change in domestic interest. “The United States is finally unlocked, and I think that people are underestimating how big that change is,” he said. This comes after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently dropped its appeal against Ripple. New regulatory developments The SEC, which was known for its hostile anti-stance crypto stance under the leadership of former Chair Gary Gensler, has moved to swiftly embrace the industry. As reported by U.Today, the new SEC leadership quickly moved to drop the SAB 121 rule which made…

Crypto start-up Plasma unveiled technical features of its stablecoin-specific blockchain, promising fast and efficient global stablecoin transfers by employing a “HotStuff-inspired” consensus mechanism. The HotStuff consensus is an example of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for blockchains that allows consensus even when some nodes are faulty or malicious. Imagine a group of friends planning a picnic who must agree on a date, location and duration. If the majority agrees, they can successfully move forward while bypassing potential disruptions from a few unreliable friends. The HotStuff blockchain consensus mechanism takes this further by allowing seamless leader replacement if the decision-maker or the…

A Bitcoin analyst on X has highlighted a scenario that could trigger a BTC price rally. In a recent post, the analyst noted a potential shortage in Bitcoin supply looming. He forecasted the possibility of the cryptocurrency reaching $150,000 soon, depending on investors’ behavior. There’s ONLY 140,000 BTC left on OTC markets. If microstrategy makes three more purchases, ALL OTC BTC is depleted. If the ETFs accumulate as much as they did in January, OTC BTC is depleted. If the U.S. and 15 states begin to buy bitcoin… you get the idea. There’s almost no… pic.twitter.com/t3XQkyOSmW — The Modern Investor…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Decentralized finance powered by artificial intelligence, or DeFAI for short, is on the verge of transforming onchain trading and asset management. AI-driven autonomous agents will execute trades, optimize yields, and move liquidity seamlessly across multiple blockchains. This shift will significantly boost blockchain activity and liquidity flow, but for DeFAI to truly succeed, one crucial piece of the puzzle is still missing: secure, efficient cross-chain interoperability. You might also like: As AI rewrites history, blockchain technology is a…

Elon Musk wants X to run your whole financial life. Not just payments. Not just messages. Everything. That’s the plan. He says the rebrand from Twitter to X wasn’t just a facelift. It’s the start of something bigger. “Comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world,” Elon said in an interview. No more switching apps. No more banks. Just X. Elon also said it would be the most efficient money database ever built. He promised real-time processing, low fraud, and a system so big, it could become “half the global financial system.” His words, not ours: “I…

Virtuals Protocol (Virtual) is gaining significant attention from market participants due to its downtrends. Today, as per data reported by crypto analyst Onchain Lens, a whale sold all his VIRTUAL tokens. Yesterday, a whale sold all its $VIRTUAL, booking a loss of $4.46M.The whale had accumulated 4.88M $VIRTUAL for $9.86M $USDT just 13 days ago.Yesterday, the whale sold all the $VIRTUAL for $5.39M in $USDC and $DAI, resulting in a loss of $4.46M.Address:… https://t.co/9236Q2j7kp pic.twitter.com/ZHAoneSvFS — Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens) February 10, 2025 Whale offloads $9.86 million VIRTUAL According to data shared by Onchain Lens, the whale sold all its VIRTUAL…