China News by Thebittimes.Com

Empowering True Financial Ownership with Non-Custodial Crypto Wallets! In an age where digital innovation is reshaping finance, non-custodial crypto wallets are emerging as powerful tools for individuals seeking true control over their assets. Unlike traditional custodial services—where a third party holds and manages your funds—non-custodial wallets allow users to retain full ownership and control of their private keys and digital assets. What Are Non-Custodial Wallets? Non-custodial wallets are a type of cryptocurrency wallet where only the user has access to their private keys. This means that you—and only you—have control over your crypto holdings . No banks, no centralized exchanges, and no intermediaries can access or freeze your assets. Popular examples of such wallets include MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and hardware wallets like Ledger or Trezor. Why Ownership Matters In many parts of the world, access to banking is limited, government restrictions are tight, or inflation erodes sa...

Source: Meta AI Meta introduced a dedicated mobile app for its AI assistant featuring advanced reasoning, multilingual support and personalised interactions drawn from users’ Facebook and Instagram profiles. The app also offers a “discover” feed showcasing community queries and a voice-mode interface designed to foster more natural dialogue. Meta plans to integrate the assistant with its AI glasses and companion software later this year and will trial a paid subscription tier for premium Features in the coming quarter. Started as a ring. Now Meta AI is its own thing! Experience the new standalone app designed to be personalized and social. pic.twitter.com/xxI56v5Ytk — Meta (@Meta) April 29, 2025 Building on its open-source ethos, Meta will continue to provide core AI tools free of charge, while monetising select enhancements. This approach echoes past strategies but intensifies the platform’s direct competition with other consumer-facing AI chatbots. Llam...

The severe Ethereum price drop of 47% in 2025 has many investors questioning whether now is actually the time to buy or sell. At the time of writing, ETH is trading at around $1,823.12 with a slight 0.83% recovery over the past day, and Ethereum faces significant challenges despite its rather substantial $220.49 billion market cap. Source: CoinMarketCap Also Read: Top 5 Defense Stocks to Buy as U.S. Approves $150B Military Budget Ethereum Price Drop Risks and Market Uncertainty: Should You Invest Now? Source: Watcher Guru Declining Active Wallets Signal Trouble Recent data shows Ethereum’s active wallet addresses dropped to about 13.9 million in March, down 1.5 million from last year. This key metric suggests users are moving away from the network despite its well-established position. Alex Carchidi, crypto analyst, was clear about the fact that: “Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of almost $220 billion. That means that if its ecosystem is heal...

The global non-fungible token market exhibits cyclical behavior, with “seasons” characterized by periods of strong interest and activity followed by periods of cooling and reassessment. This market pattern is often influenced by various factors, including geopolitics, negative crypto market sentiment, media coverage, and the underlying value proposition of specific non-fungible token projects. The NFT market has experienced a significant downturn in the past four months, primarily due to a combination of factors, including declining investor interest, falling cryptocurrency prices, and market saturation. Fortunately, the non-fungible token buying spell has started building up, with top NFT coins leading the recent surge. NFT coins are the native coins or tokens of a specific NFT ecosystem. Below, we have listed some of the top-selling NFT crypto coins in the NFT market. 1. FLOKI FLOKI, a utility token that forms the backbone of the Floki Ecosystem, is this week’s to...

Exhausted after years of ineffective attempts to prevent non-financial (“arbitrary”) storage on Bitcoin’s blockchain, developers are asking Bitcoin Core maintainers to pull a code change into production that would remove a data size limit. Acknowledging two years of failed attempts to limit arbitrary data storage that some consider spam, Peter Todd created a pull request (PR) number 32359 that would lift arbitrary limits on datacarrier outputs via Bitcoin’s “OP_Return” operation code. If Core maintainers pull the change into production via the main repository, Bitcoin node operators like miners would be able to publish more bytes of data via OP_Return outputs. According to Todd’s formalization of the proposal by Chaincode Labs’ Antoine Poinsot, for any developers who think the 83-byte limit on OP_Return’s scriptPubKey is silly, they should test the code changes and consider whether they agree with lifting the limit.  Spam workarounds for years Although t...

In 2025, Vertex Protocol continued its aggressive expansion across the DeFi landscape, sharpening its identity as a multichain trading powerhouse . With an emphasis on liquidity unification, sustainable tokenomics, and modular infrastructure , Vertex positioned itself as a go-to protocol for sophisticated traders and ecosystem builders alike. From launching the Vertex Liquidity Pool (VLP) and rolling out isolated margin trading , to deploying on Avalanche and integrating 25 chains through Vertex Edge , the platform evolved far beyond its origins on Arbitrum. Let’s dive deep into the major milestones and on-chain performance that defined Vertex in 2025. Multichain Momentum: Vertex Deployments Across Chains Supported Chains (as of Q2 2025):   Chain Deployment Date Highlights Arbitrum 2023 Core chain, 57% of volume in Q3 2024 Sei Aug 2024 14% Q3 volume, successful trading rewards campaign Mantle Q2 2024 599% QoQ volume growth in Q3 2024 Base Sep 2024 New deployment, volume potentia...

A widely followed crypto analyst and trader is leaning bullish on a mid-cap Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) competitor. Pseudonymous analyst Altcoin Sherpa tells his 244,900 followers on the social media platform X that Pepe (PEPE) memecoin is primed to go up by around 100% after undergoing consolidation and accumulation in a manner similar to 2024. “PEPE also went through a three-month accumulation/consolidation cycle in the late third quarter of 2024 and then had another run in December. It’s currently in the same exact region in the same consolidation. I expect PEPE to do a 2x or something from the bottom at a minimum.” Source: Altcoin Sherpa/X PEPE is trading at $0.00000884 at time of writing, up by around 23% over the past seven days. On what has replaced the altcoin seasons, the widely followed analyst says, “There are no more altcoin seasons, get that framing out of your head for now. Instead, you have one to three months of ...

Goldman Sachs analyst has provided a gloomy prediction for the US dollar as BRICS aims to topple the US dollar from the world’s reserve currency. The US dollar is the worst-performing currency in the forex markets as the DXY index dipped below the 100 mark. It hit a low of 98.06 after falling from a high of 109.40 early this year. The greenback has dipped nearly 9% year-to-date and eight out of nine leading currencies outperformed it in 2025. Also Read: BRICS Makes Huge Announcement On New Payment System Source: MarketWatch BRICS: Goldman Sachs on The US Dollar’s Future: ‘Weakness Is Here To Stay,’ Says Analyst Source: iStock Kamakshya Trivedi, Head of Global FX at Goldman Sachs said that the US dollar’s weakness is here to stay. Trivedi explained that the geopolitical winds have changed as emerging economies are now looking at their own benefits similar to how the US does on foreign policies. The Goldman Sachs analyst remains bearish on the US dollar as B...

NFTs from the startup RTFKT, which was bought and later shuttered by Nike, are no longer displaying the images attached to them after a Cloudflare restriction.  Right-clicking and hitting save won’t have the same impact now that the images from the entire Clone X NFT collection have been replaced with a violation message.  It reads, “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.” Some X users have speculated that RTFKT can no longer afford to pay for one of the CloudFlare subscriptions , resulting in the removal of the images. However, at the time of writing, various NFTs from this collection are now displaying their images again. The violation warning that now appears on most of the RTFKT NFTs. Read more: Nike sues over sneaker NFTs to clean house before metaverse arrives Nike bought RTFKT in December 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and claimed it would “invest in the RTFKT b...

The de-dollarization initiative kick-started by leading developing countries is threatening the reserve currency status of the US dollar. Emerging economies are looking to use their local currencies for cross-border transactions to strengthen their respective GDP. The move also allows local currencies to compete in the forex markets and not be chained under the US dollar. Also Read: De-Dollarization Reaches European Shores: EU Questions US Dollar Usage The quest to topple the US dollar from the global reserve currency status is paying off as developing countries forge trade deals that equip them to settle payments in local currencies through the de-dollarization initiative. Several countries including India, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Brazil, among others, have paid local currencies for trade settlements. Also Read: Intel (INTC) Stock Climbs Amid Talks of Layoffs De-Dollarization: No Alternative Currency To the US Dollar Source: Freepik.com Ashishkumar Chauhan, the Managing D...

The cryptocurrency market recorded a major shift in trend during this week. After a rather slow period over the last few weeks, Bitcoin (BTC) was moving above the $90,000 mark. The king coin was entangled in a rut that started in the month of March. This came as a major shock to the market as BTC began the year on a bullish note. The asset even went on to record an all-time high of $109,114.88. But Bitcoin failed to retain this momentum and came crashing down to a low of $74,436. This caused increased chaos in the market. Also Read: If You Invested $4,000 in XRP When Trump Took Office, Here Are Your Returns Today Bitcoin Kickstarts Recovery Phase Source: Watcher Guru During the past 24 hours, Bitcoin recorded a notable rise of 6.14%. This increase took the king coin from trading at a low of $88,255.83 all the way to a high of $94,459.61. At the time of writing, after encountering slight correction, BTC was priced at $93,906.98. Source: CoinMarketCap The asset’s latest rise further...

The first three months of the year have not been kind to the US stock market. Although there have been a host of assets on the downturn, Tuesday saw some relief come to the Magnificent 7. Amid that, Meta Platforms (META) has gotten a new overweight rating, with the stock potentially eyeing a $700 target. There are few tech companies that have the kind of potential that Meta does. Its social media networks grant it access to a slew of users, while it has placed immense focus on building its own tech and AI developments. Subsequently, it could be one of the most promising tech stocks to invest in over the medium term. Source: Getty Images Also Read: Alphabet (GOOGL) or META: Which Stock Is a Better Buy in 2025? META Gets New Rating as Stock Bounces Back Tuesday At the start of the week, US President Donald Trump targeted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. He was seeking the chairman’s termination, with the stock market plummeting as a result. However, things turned around on Tuesd...