Author: NBTC
Around 4 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, when Bitcoin’s block height reached 893,088, the network difficulty ratcheted upward to a new all‑time high, making the quest for new blocks considerably more difficult for miners. Block 893,088 Triggers Another All‑Time High in Mining Complexity After the prior adjustment delivered a 6.81% gain, Bitcoin’s difficulty has climbed anew. Moreover, since March 9, 2025, Bitcoin’s difficulty has risen on four occasions, with Saturday’s adjustment contributing another 1.42%. That uptick coincides with bitcoin’s price treading a tight corridor for over a week, alongside the estimated daily output value of a single petahash. The last six…
AltLayer, Astar Network, and EigenLayer have teamed up to reduce finality times to under 10 seconds on Soneium. Soneium currently uses Ethereum’s fraud-proof mechanism, which requires a latency of nearly fifteen minutes for L1 settlement. The latest development, therefore, aims to deliver significant finality speed. Despite its security, the aforementioned latency has become a hindrance for applications that require reliable and fast cross-chain transactions. Use cases related to gaming, social platforms, and decentralized finance (DeFi) are particularly sensitive to this type of latency. It can hinder real-time interactions and also become a major hindrance for consumers. To address this issue,…
Ripple USD stablecoin, RLUSD, is gaining significant traction in the market, with the recently released February attestation report highlighting growth. In a tweet, Jack McDonald, SVP of Stablecoins at Ripple, stated that the February monthly independent attestation for RLUSD is live, going further ahead to share highlights of the recently released report. RLUSD has seen a market cap surge that has reached over $170 million, outpacing internal projections, according to the Ripple executive. RLUSD has also scored new exchange listings with the stablecoin now available on new platforms, including LMAX, with more listings expected soon. RLUSD made its debut in…
Polygon has expanded its reach in India with a new alliance with Jio. The firm plans to add new Web3 capabilities to drive decentralized initiatives. Polygon Labs, the entity behind blockchain giant Polygon (POL), has announced a partnership with India-based Jio Platforms. Leveraging Polygon’s infrastructure, Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, will provide Web3 services to its over 450 million users. Jio Platforms Expanding Web3 Capabilities for Users As revealed in a blog post, Jio will work with Polygon to improve Web3 capabilities for some of the existing applications and services. This partnership marks a huge step forward for…
In a chilling signal for crypto investors, Bitcoin (BTC), the first and largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has completed its first major death cross of 2025, coinciding with bearish sentiment amid an ongoing market-wide sell-off that has triggered over $1.4 billion in liquidations. The death cross, a technical pattern in which the 50-day moving average falls below the 200-day moving average, is commonly seen as an indicator of protracted downward momentum. For Bitcoin, the daily SMA 50 has crossed below the daily SMA 200, indicating a death cross. The appearance of a death cross now marks a stark shift from…
Pump.fun, a platform central to Solana’s meme coin boom last year, continues to see sharp declines in protocol fee revenue and overall trading volume. Current data reveals a stark difference from its peak activity earlier in 2025. As of March 28, Pump.fun’s protocol fee revenue stands at $1.2 million, according to data from DefiLlama. This is a significant drop from January, when the revenue was $7.07 million. Specifically, this marks an 83% decline from the all-time high in just three months. While this marks a slight improvement from a low near $671k reported just last week, the steep decline highlights…
Velora plans to leverage the Across Protocol to enable users to perform cross-chain swaps in a single transaction. Cross-chain interoperability is one of the most important trends in crypto today. On Thursday, April 17, DEX platform Velora partnered with Across Protocol. In a press release shared with crypto.news, the company stated that the partnership will allow users to easily swap assets across multiple chains. The integration of the Across Protocol will enable Velora users to trade assets across more than 17 chains. Moreover, traders will be able to execute swaps between any of these chains in a single transaction. Velora…
Bitcoin and altcoins further extended their losses amid a sell-off triggered by US President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff war. While Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are reaching levels not seen for a long time, investors’ losses have also increased. While the CEO of CryptoQuant stated that the bull market in Bitcoin is over, investors who are in a state of anxious waiting are wondering whether the decline will continue. At this point, Peter Chung, Head of Research at Presto Research, said that amid the increasing caution regarding the speed and scope of the customs tariff applications announced by Trump on…
A Minecraft clone on the Somnia blockchain testnet called Chunked puts every in-game action on the blockchain—from a player’s movement to every block placed, mined, and crafted. Creator MSquared, a division of metaverse tech builder Improbable, says this is the first of a number of blockchain experiments as the firm looks to see how far it can push the boundaries of crypto gaming. Playing the game is a smooth experience, even with all the on-chain hooks, as there isn’t noticeable lag when placing or mining a block. That said, some issues can arise when crafting with blocks momentarily disappearing from…
NodeOps, the AI-powered decentralised physical infrastructure network (DePIN) orchestration layer has launched Staking Hub, a new feature that allows users to stake tokens across multiple proof-of-stake networks. The new feature debuts with support for $HYPE (Hyperliquid currently on testnet) and $BEAM (Beam currently on mainnet). As part of the launch campaign, NodeOps is also introducing Stakedrop, an incentivised staking program that rewards users with the native token of the network and stNODE (Node points) for staking through NodeOps. Node points can be converted into the Node token post-campaign. To commemorate the inaugural networks on the NodeOps Staking Hub, stakers will…