Author: NBTC

Ethereum continues to trade within a broader consolidation structure as the market struggles to establish sustained bullish momentum. Nevertheless, weakening momentum indicators and growing signs of seller activity suggest that the market could be preparing for another corrective move in the short term. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, $ETH is showing a notable bearish divergence between the RSI indicator and price action. While the asset recently attempted to stabilize near the $2.3K-$2.4K region, the RSI has been forming lower highs, signaling weakening bullish momentum beneath the surface. At the same time, the recent price action…

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based digital asset investment firm co-founded by Yat Siu, said it’s boosting funding for early-stage ventures using its Minds platform, a system designed to support persistent AI agents. The $10mn funding initiative will focus on projects across sectors such as gaming, finance and productivity, with funding awarded on a rolling basis, the company said in a 5 May statement. Animoca Brands’ latest programme comes as interest grows in so-called agentic systems, where autonomous software performs tasks, makes decisions and interacts with digital services on behalf of users. Industry participants view this model as a potential shift…

PostFinance, a Swiss state-owned financial institution, announced that it has expanded its cryptocurrency services by adding support for Algorand ($ALGO) transactions. This move signals a strengthening integration between traditional banking and digital assets. According to the announcement, approximately 2.5 million PostFinance customers can now buy and sell $ALGO directly through their bank accounts. This will allow users to conduct transactions without using a separate cryptocurrency exchange or digital wallet. Officials stated that this development provides a significant convenience, especially for users new to the cryptocurrency market. The ability to conduct transactions directly through the bank also offers advantages in terms…

CME Group announced a significant step towards the cryptocurrency derivatives market. The company stated that, as of May 29th, cryptocurrency futures and options products will be available for trading 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This will allow investors to trade continuously without being limited by traditional market hours. CME Group also announced the launch of new Avalanche ($AVAX) and Sui ($SUI) futures contracts. The first transactions were executed as a block transaction between FalconX and G-20 Group. Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group, said that the early interest seen in $AVAX and $SUI…

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer has once again sold all the Bitcoin it mined during the past week, continuing a strategy that has seen the firm hold no Bitcoin on its balance sheet since February. The company reported mining 193.8 $BTC this week and confirmed the entire amount was sold. Bitdeer’s Zero-Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Bitdeer’s decision to sell its entire mined Bitcoin output immediately, rather than accumulating a treasury, marks a clear departure from the strategy of many publicly traded miners such as MicroStrategy and Marathon Digital Holdings, which have historically held large Bitcoin reserves. Bitdeer has maintained this approach…

The Cardano Foundation has formed a significant partnership with the University of Brasília (UnB), making great strides toward promoting blockchain adoption in South America. This marks an important milestone in launching the first Cardano Project Development Lab located in Latin America. These labs are meant to help connect the academic research community to real-life cases for decentralized applications (dApps). A Hub for Innovation in Latin America The Project Development Lab established by the Cardano Foundation will provide a foundation for all future blockchain related research and education throughout the community. The development lab will be working with one of Brazil’s…

Breaking Bitcoin’s blockchain with quantum computers may not be as difficult as once thought, and Bitcoin’s Taproot technology, which enables more efficient, private transactions, may be partly to blame, Google’s Quantum AI team said Monday in a blog post and newly published whitepaper. The team said the computing power required to break Bitcoin’s security may be far lower than previously assumed, raising fresh questions about how soon quantum threats could become a reality. In a new whitepaper, researchers found that cracking the cryptography used by Bitcoin and Ethereum could require fewer than 500,000 physical quantum bits, or qubits, well below…

Miami — Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury firm, may slow the pace of its ether ($ETH) accumulation as the firm is inching closer to reaching its accumulation goal, Chairman Tom Lee said Thursday at Consensus 2026 in Miami. The company, which holds over 5.1 million $ETH worth around $11.9 billion at current prices, originally expected it would take five years to accumulate 5% of the $ETH supply, Lee said. Instead, the company held 4.29% as of this week, less than a year after launching its strategy. “At our current buying pace of 100,000 $ETH a week, we’re going to…

Meta’s quiet rollout last week of $USDC creator payouts in Colombia and the Philippines, four years after the company sold its failed Diem stablecoin (formerly Libra) assets to Silvergate Bank for $182 million, has revived the old question of whether Big Tech is finally coming for retail finance. The answer in 2026 is yes, but not from Apple, Google or Mark Zuckerberg. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) The clearest competitive threats to Robinhood, Trading 212, eToro and Revolut are being assembled inside Walmart’s OnePay app, valued above $4 billion, and Elon…

Kraken on Wednesday launched CFTC-regulated spot margin trading for U.S. retail clients on Kraken Pro, giving customers up to 10x leverage on long and short crypto positions with no accredited investor requirement. Traders can post existing crypto holdings as collateral, view real-time risk metrics including liquidation prices and borrowing costs, and use 24/7 stop-loss functionality. Risk is isolated to the collateral allocated to each position rather than the entire portfolio. Eligibility is gated by state and customer criteria. Kraken framed the rollout as closing a long-running gap in the U.S. market, where regulatory friction had pushed leveraged crypto traders toward…