Author: NBTC
EquiLend, a securities finance utility giant with $40 trillion in lendable assets, said it made a “strategic” minority investment in Digital Prime Technologies, a regulated crypto financing provider. The company said it is responding to client demand for governed, transparent workflows that can run straight from trading to post-trade processing and reporting across both traditional and digital instruments. It declined to say how much the investment was worth. The partnership will center on Tokenet, Digital Prime’s institutional lending network. Tokenet supports multi-custodian and multi-collateral lifecycle management, exposure monitoring and institutional reporting, the companies said. Future phases include the introduction of…
The UAE government now sponsors Bitcoin mining operations that will run on the nation’s substantial supply of natural gas. CZ, founder of Binance, interjected on social media that the UAE has been mining Bitcoin “for a while.” Governments in countries like Japan, El Salvador and Russia already sponsor Bitcoin mining and now the UAE has joined those ranks, according to recent reports. Is the UAE government involved in Bitcoin mining? The United Arab Emirates has joined the list of nations choosing to embrace government-sponsored Bitcoin mining, according to recent announcements circulating on social media. CZ, the founder of Binance, responded…
Ethereum price failed to clear the $3,220 resistance and dipped. ETH is now attempting to recover and faces an uphill task near the $3,150 level. Ethereum started a downside correction below $3,220 and $3,200. The price is trading below $3,180 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There was a break above a connecting bearish trend line with resistance at $3,100 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to move up if it stays above the $3,050 zone. Ethereum Price Attempts Fresh Increase Ethereum price failed to remain stable above $3,220 and dipped further,…
After Jerome Powell stepped down as FED chairman in May, Kevin Warsh and Kevin Hassett came to the forefront, but a surprise name emerged at the last minute. At this point, Christopher Waller, a member of the Federal Reserve, has also emerged as a leading candidate for the FED chairmanship and has made important statements regarding interest rates. Speaking at the Yale Business School CEO Summit in New York, Waller said the US central bank still has room to lower interest rates. Waller argued that the Fed’s monetary policy is still in restrictive territory, predicting that inflation is still above…
In traditional finance, it is a truth universally acknowledged that, when the economy wobbles, investors turn to safe-haven assets like gold. Such assets have a low, or sometimes even negative, correlation to stock markets and other risk assets, and so can protect portfolios when trouble hits. Yet in decentralized finance (DeFi), for many long years, traders had no such options. When a sell-off began, the best most could do was sit out the pandemonium in stablecoins. Crypto’s “Black Friday” on October 10, 2025 saw at least $19 billion worth of long positions wiped out in 24 hours, and things have…
Ethereum price has failed another attempt to move past $3,300, with price action stalling amid cooling U.S. demand. Summary Ethereum failed to reclaim the $3,300 resistance despite modest weekly gains. On-chain data points to fading U.S. institutional demand as the Coinbase Premium Gap drops to a 10-month low. Derivatives positioning and ETF outflows suggest traders are still cautious, keeping downside risks in play. ETH was changing hands near $3,115 at press time, down 0.7% over the past 24 hours. Over the last week, the token has traded between $3,008 and $3,293, ending the period up about 3%. Ethereum (ETH) is…
Next year’s first quarter could prove kinder to Bitcoin than late 2025, not because bank-run stablecoins arrive overnight, but because the pipes feeding retail and advisors just widened. Vanguard reversed its crypto ban, opening spot ETF access to roughly 50 million clients. Bank of America advisors can now recommend crypto allocations of 1% to 4% starting early January. Meanwhile, the FDIC’s Dec. 16 notice of proposed rulemaking under the GENIUS Act starts the clock on bank-issued stablecoins, a structural shift that could reshape dollar-based rails on public chains later in 2026. The timing defines the narrative. Distribution changes land in…
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 likes to tell a very simple story about itself. Billions of people are unbanked. Traditional finance is slow, exclusionary, expensive, and biased toward incumbents. Blockchains are open, permissionless, global, and neutral. Therefore, DeFi will bank the unbanked. Summary DeFi didn’t replace traditional finance — it wrapped it. Its money, identity, pricing, access, and liquidity all still come from banks, regulators, and centralized infrastructure, so it can’t reach the people that system excludes. The unbanked don’t…
Ethereum needs to break the $3,297 Fibonacci resistance level, with mixed short-term performance and institutional interest fueling market optimism. As of January 9, Ethereum (ETH) trades for $3,095.10, reflecting a 1.2% decline over the past 24 hours amid ongoing market volatility. The crypto asset experienced a tight trading range between $3,058 and $3,133, with intraday dips followed by partial recoveries. This minor pullback aligns with a 0.8% drop against Bitcoin (measured at 0.03428 BTC), while 24-hour trading volume remains at over $22.4 billion. Recent performance shows mixed results as gains of 2.4% over 7 days and 4.1% over 14 days…
Robert Kiyosaki is back doing what he does best: tying a Federal Reserve decision to a personal wealth playbook and dragging Bitcoin into the center of the argument. After five days of silence, the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author reacted to the Fed’s latest rate cut by calling it an early signal of renewed quantitative easing and the return of what he describes as a “fake money printing press.” What follows next, according to Kiyosaki, is a phase where liquidity expansion outpaces real economic output. The main point is that the direct consequence of Fed easing is inflation pressure that…