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.

Decentralized prediction landscape is on the rise, and Eventra Market, a Web-based prediction market platform, today entered into a strategic partnership with Presens Network, a DEPIN ecosystem, to make it more accessible, affordable, and secure. This collaboration enabled Eventra Market to combine with Presens Network, an integration that aims to enable its prediction market platform to meet its existing computational demand using Presens’ DEPIN infrastructure. Eventra Market is a decentralized prediction market that allows users to bet on the future of real-world events like crypto, politics, sports, economics, cultural changes, and many others, and profit from their knowledge. The platform…

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The chance of Bitcoin ($BTC) falling below $60,000 is “extremely slim,” according to data showing that $BTC long-term holders increased their holdings to 71.6% of the total supply. In addition to this data, a key technical signal turned bullish for the first time since February. $BTC price may avoid fresh new lows, says analyst Crypto analyst Sykodelic said the possibility of Bitcoin revisiting fresh lows has “become extremely slim” after the weekly relative strength index (RS) retested the 50 level. Historically, Bitcoin has entered long-term expansion phases after the RSI recovered above that threshold following an oversold position. $BTC/USD, one-week…

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Ethereum traded within a descending channel after its uptrend stalled at $2.3k two weeks ago. During this decline, the altcoin dropped to $2,009 before rebounding slightly. At press time, Ethereum [$ETH] traded at $2,106 after falling 0.62% over the past day. With $ETH hovering near $2k, whale activity reflected growing bearish sentiment. Why are whales turning bearish? Onchain Lens reported that a whale sold 15,000 $ETH for $31.12 million. This whale has been aggressively selling over the past day. Over this period, the whale has offloaded 35,000 $ETH for $72.3 million at an average price of $2,066 per $ETH. When…

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AI Financial, formerly known as Alt5 Sigma, wants the market to know that it’s more than just its token holdings, and calling it a $WLFI treasury company isn’t the right way to describe it. “AiFi continues to operate an active fintech and digital payments business while executing on a broader long-term strategy across digital assets, settlement infrastructure, tokenization, and next-generation financial technologies,” a company spokesperson told CoinDesk in an email. “Characterizing the company solely as a ‘treasury company’ does not accurately reflect the breadth of AiFi’s operating business.” AI Financial operates ALT5 Pay, its crypto payments platform, and ALT5 Prime,…

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As Ripple Prime officially announced an integration with crypto platform EDX Markets, CEO Michael Higgins confirmed that the partnership gives clients unified access to spot markets and perpetual futures through a single framework with centralized clearing and netting. However, the launch of this institutional mechanism exposed a strategic compromise, and instead of $XRP, the primary settlement and margin asset of the deal will be the stablecoin Ripple USD ($RLUSD). Institutions don’t want to manage more venues, they want smarter infrastructure.Excited to bring @markets_edx liquidity into @Ripple Prime, giving clients seamless access to spot and perpetual futures markets through one unified,…

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Jane Street Group, one of Wall Street’s largest trading firms, allegedly used a private Telegram backchannel with Terraform Labs insiders to dump $192 million of the doomed TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin before its collapse in May 2022, according to newly unsealed court filings in Manhattan federal court. The complaint, brought by the administrator winding down Terraform’s bankruptcy estate, was amended last week with fewer redactions, revealing new details about how Jane Street allegedly obtained non-public information as Terra’s ecosystem unraveled. Jane Street denied the initial allegations, filed in February, as “desperate” and “baseless” and asked the court to dismiss the case.…

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Vicor Corporation just bumped its second-quarter 2026 revenue guidance to $142 million, up from the $126 million it projected barely a month ago. That’s a $16 million upgrade in five weeks, driven by stronger product sales and a fresh stream of royalty income from a new licensee of its patented power conversion technology. For a company that makes the kinds of power modules most people never think about, the kind buried inside data center racks and defense systems, that’s a meaningful jump. It suggests demand isn’t just holding steady. It’s accelerating. The numbers behind the revision The original $126 million…

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Ethereum maintained its position as the largest smart-contract network with TVL consistently above $42 billion, while stablecoin liquidity remained above $164 billion throughout the week. Solana continued to dominate on-chain activity, processing 74-80 million daily transactions and recording some of the highest perpetual futures volumes among major blockchains. BSC Chain (BSC) demonstrated strong retail participation, averaging over 2.6 million active addresses and reaching 18.1 million daily transactions during the week. TRON remained the undisputed leader in stablecoin settlements, holding nearly $91 billion in stablecoin market capitalization and generating the highest protocol revenue among major chains. Bitcoin showed resilience despite market…

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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has suggested that Asian countries are likely to accumulate Bitcoin reserves in a discreet manner, pointing to cultural and strategic differences compared to Western nations. Speaking at a recent industry event, Zhao argued that the prevailing narrative of cryptocurrency disrupting traditional finance is fundamentally inaccurate, and warned that banks ignoring the technology risk obsolescence. Quiet Accumulation and Cultural Mindset Zhao emphasized that Asian governments and institutions tend to operate with a longer-term, less publicly declarative approach to strategic asset accumulation. Rather than making grand announcements about Bitcoin adoption, Zhao posited that these nations may prefer to…

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The crypto market is flashing signs of a potential recovery from its prolonged volatility phase; however, Ethereum has continued to decline despite positive trading metrics. Latest analysis from Cryptoquant shows that Ethereum is witnessing aggressive buying activity across both spot and futures markets, but the momentum has failed to halt its price decline. Ethereum risks losing $2,000 Notably, Cryptoquant provided data revealing that Ethereum has declined from about $2,375 on May 11 to nearly $2,031 as of May 23. This marks a decrease of 14.5% in the price of Ethereum in just less than two weeks, posing its price at…

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