Author: NBTC

Sberbank has launched Russia’s first Bitcoin-secured bonds to appeal to qualified investors in OTC markets and aims to list on the Moscow Exchange. The bonds provide an investment in the price fluctuations of Bitcoin as well as the strength of the US dollar against the ruble. All transactions are settled in rubles without needing a crypto wallet or foreign platform access. The largest banking institution in Russia, Sberbank, has issued the first Bitcoin-backed structured bonds in the country. These securities are sold to accredited investors and can already be traded over-the-counter (OTC). The bonds will be listed on the Moscow…

SOL Strategies has accumulated more than 389k Solana coins through leveraging capital markets in the recent past. The preliminary base shelf prospectus allows the company to raise $1B in the next 25 months. SOL price has signaled bullish sentiment following a robust rebound in the past few weeks. SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL), a Vancouver-based company focused on the growth and development of the Solana (SOL) network, announced that it filed a preliminary short-form base shelf prospectus with the securities regulators in Canada to issue up to $1 billion in securities over the next 25 months. The company intends to…

Ethiopia has seen a rise in power concerns attributed to crypto mining activities amid the boom in the country’s cryptocurrency industry. According to reports, the crypto mining and data center industry in the country is expected to consume a third of the country’s electricity supply in 2025. This forecast has raised issues about the allocation of energy in a country where half of the population still lacks access to reliable power supply. According to the newly released Ethiopian Energy Outlook 2025, electricity demands from crypto-related data centers will exceed eight terawatt hours (TWh) this year, which is equivalent to about…

A new AI model out of China is generating sparks—for what it does well, what it doesn’t, and what it might mean for the balance of global AI power. MiniMax-M1, released by the Chinese startup of the same name, positions itself as the most capable open-source “reasoning model” to date. Able to handle a million tokens of context, it boasts numbers on par with Google’s closed-source Gemini 2.5 Pro—yet it’s available for free. On paper, that makes it a potential rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and other U.S. AI leaders. Oh yeah—it also beats fellow Chinese startup DeepSeek R1’s…

Bitcoin’s price is still struggling to regain its upward momentum following the establishment of a new all-time high above $111,000 last week. Today, Bitcoin trades below $106,000 with a current trading price of $105,381, marking a 1.2% increase in the past day and a 5.8% decrease from its peak. The current movement suggests a cooling-off period as traders and analysts monitor for potential market reentry points. Despite the price retreat, the mood across the market remains relatively stable, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index still hovering in the neutral zone. This suggests that the market is yet to enter…

Ethereum price today: $2,420 Ethereum spot and derivative markets have experienced slow movement, with investors exhibiting less buying activity over the past few days. Ethereum has seen growth in network usage despite prices remaining range-bound. ETH faced rejection at the $2,500 level after posting an inverted hammer. Ethereum (ETH) is down 1% in early trading hours on Friday, as market activity remains cautious following low realized profit and loss, along with steady open interest. Despite this, Ethereum’s network usage has rebounded, with transaction counts rising from 1.23 million to 1.75 million on Wednesday, spurred by an increase in active addresses.…

Marshall Long, an OG bitcoiner, recounted how he had to resort to stablecoins to send a remittance to a worker’s family in Iran. Long noted that stablecoins, rather than bitcoin, are more useful during times of strenuous conflict due to the availability of fiat ramps. Stablecoins, Not Bitcoin, Completed This Tricky Remittance A story posted on social media highlighted the relevance of stablecoins over bitcoin as wartime tools for remittances. Marshall Long, an OG bitcoiner and current Director of Product Development at Auradine, shared how he had to resort to stablecoins to complete remittances to Iran, a country embroiled in…

Iran has been mining and trading in cryptocurrencies out of necessity due to major global sanctions and a local currency that has dwindled in value due to severe inflation since at least 2019. However, experts told Decrypt it’s still nearly impossible to estimate its holdings. The University of Cambridge’s Center for Alternative Finance estimated that the nation accounted for 7.5% of Bitcoin’s hashrate in March 2021, a figure that fell as low as just 0.12% in January 2022. Throughout its history, Andrew Scott Easton, founder and CEO of Bitcoin miner fund Masterminded, estimated that the country has mined approximately 60,000…

The prominent investment analysis platform, Alphractal, forecasted that the Realized Cap Impulse of Bitcoin is expected to rise till October, which would be “the last major impulse” before entering a prolonged bearish cycle. According to the post on X, this bear cycle is expected to last for about one year, extending until the end of 2026. The Realized Cap Impulse has maintained its levels “perfectly”, which is considered to be the final base of support for the cryptocurrency. “As long as it stays above this zone — both in the short and long-term outlook — it signals clear demand, which…

It’s been a rocky year for Ethereum (ETH) holders. The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency has declined 26.73% year-to-date and is currently trading 29% lower than it was a year ago. At $2,445.14 per token, ETH is down another 4.03% just this week. While institutional money continues to flow in (Spot Ethereum ETFs pulled in $741.7 million in the last two weeks), the technical picture appears shaky. ETH recently pushed above $2,520 but has since pulled back, with analysts eyeing potential support around $2,320. Still, if you had the good sense to buy Ethereum three years ago, you’d be sitting pretty today.…