Author: NBTC

Bitcoin and Ether are in the green as the broader cryptocurrency market makes a positive start to the week. Bitcoin has crossed the $81,000 barrier while Ether is slowly approaching $2,400. The growing institutional adoption could push $ETH’s price higher in the near term. Institutions continue to accumulate Ether Ether is trading at $2,380, up by less than 1% in the last 24 hours. The positive performance comes as institutional investors continue to accumulate Ether. Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) announced on Monday that it purchased 101,745 $ETH last week. The purchase has lifted the company’s holdings to…

Jeff Schmid has said that some businesses have paused hiring. Crypto prices could feel the heat. Oil and gas prices are other possible factors. Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeff Schmid has made a statement on the hiring pause due to AI. Unemployment rate surged a little in February, and inflation data is yet to be published. If unfavorable, the crypto market could see a divergence to safer alternatives, given that crypto prices are already down at the moment. Jeff Schmid on Hiring Pause Jeff Schmid, Kansas City Fed President, has said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be bringing a…

Shibarium recently saw a dramatic increase in the number of transactions, with daily activity rising drastically and momentarily indicating a resurgence of ecosystem momentum. On the surface, this kind of growth is easily interpreted as increasing adoption. A healthier network, more users and increased demand are typically implied by more transactions. The issue is that those transactions’ underlying makeup presents a different outlook. A closer examination of the transaction feed reveals that a significant amount of activity is made up of zero-native-value operations. Not what it seems Every transaction that was visible in the observed sample had the label “Value…

The Solana Foundation has introduced Pay.sh, a new payment gateway built in collaboration with Google Cloud, aimed at enabling autonomous AI agents to access and pay for APIs using stablecoins on the Solana network. The launch targets a growing friction point in the AI economy: while agents increasingly automate workflows, access to enterprise-grade APIs still requires manual onboarding, credentials, and billing relationships. Pay.sh attempts to remove those barriers. What is Pay.sh? Pay.sh is a gateway that allows AI agents to discover APIs in one place, access them without creating accounts and pay per request using stablecoins. Instead of traditional authentication…

On-chain asset manager Maple Finance is integrating its dollar-yield product syrupUSDT with Ink, the Ethereum Layer 2 built by the team behind Kraken, according to a press release shared with The Defiant. The move expands Maple’s distribution to Kraken’s more than 10 million users and positions syrupUSDT as a core yield asset within the Ink ecosystem. Maple, which manages $3.8 billion in assets on-chain, said users will be able to earn yield on syrupUSDT directly within Ink-native applications, including lending and borrowing protocol Tydro, the largest protocol by TVL on Ink. An incentive and rewards program tied to the launch…

With momentum improving but resistance still close, Ethereum price today reflects a market at an important inflection point, where bulls hold the tactical edge without yet securing a broader trend reversal. $ETH/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Main scenario: Neutral on the daily chart, with a bullish tilt Ethereum is trading around $2,387, and the market is at a genuinely important inflection point. The daily chart looks constructive, but it is not cleanly bullish yet. Price has moved above short- and medium-term trend gauges and is pressing into overhead resistance. However, the longer-term structure still shows that…

Block CEO Jack Dorsey says his company will support stablecoins, despite having long argued that Bitcoin should serve as the internet’s native money protocol. In an interview with WIRED, Dorsey acknowledged the change while making clear it reflects customer demand rather than a shift in personal belief. “I don’t like that we’re going to support stablecoins but our customers want to use them,” he said. “I don’t think it’s wise to go from one gatekeeper to another.” The move marks a pragmatic turn for one of Silicon Valley’s most vocal Bitcoin advocates. For years, Dorsey framed Block’s crypto strategy around…

In its latest assessment of the altcoin market, cryptocurrency analytics company Alphractal revealed that investor positions are divided into two extremes and the market structure is becoming increasingly asymmetrical. According to the company, while low long/short ratios in some altcoins indicate weakening investor interest, the increase in excessively crowded long positions is noteworthy. The altcoins with the lowest long/short ratios (low positioning) are listed as follows: BNX — 0.24 EDGE — 0.32 NIGHT — 0.35 OPN — 0.36 ESP — 0.36 BERA — 0.41 LA — 0.41 ENSO — 0.42 SIGN — 0.43 RESOLV — 0.43 The altcoins with the…

Every transaction on a public blockchain is permanently recorded and visible to anyone in the world. But raw blockchain data — stored as cryptographic hashes across thousands of nodes — is unreadable without a tool that translates it into something a human can actually interpret. That tool is a blockchain explorer. If you’ve ever pasted a Bitcoin transaction ID into a search bar and watched a page populate with sender addresses, recipient addresses, amounts, confirmations, and timestamps — you’ve used a blockchain explorer. It’s the closest thing the crypto ecosystem has to a public ledger with a search interface, and…

Tydro, the Aave-powered lending protocol on Ink with $247 million in deposits, halted all markets on May 4 after detecting problems with a third-party oracle provider. The shutdown comes barely two weeks after Tydro contributed to coordinated relief efforts for Aave following the $290 million KelpDAO exploit that affected the protocol. Tydro posted on X that it was “temporarily pausing all markets out of an abundance of caution following reports of issues with a third-party oracle,” adding that user funds remained safe. However, it did not provide a timeline for the restoration. How did Tydro move from rescuer to rescued?…