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How Bitcoin’s price rise has increased the number of cryptocurrency payments

NOWPayments Announces Significant Gain in Crypto Payments
NOWPayments, a leading crypto payment gateway, is excited to announce the significaте Increase of Crypto Payments since the beginning of November.
Why Bitcoin took a new ATH in November?
Starting in January 2024, Bitcoin’s price was around $48,717, marking a period of cautious optimism following a tumultuous 2023. Throughout the first half of the year, Bitcoin experienced significant fluctuations as market dynamics shifted, driven by regulatory developments and increased institutional interest. By November 2024, Bitcoin had reached a pivotal moment, hitting an all-time high (ATH) of $75,000 on November 8 and then surging to $89,000 shortly thereafter.
This remarkable growth didn’t go unnoticed by the business world. Companies across various industries quickly recognized the massive business opportunity Bitcoin presented. The ATH sent a clear message: Bitcoin was no longer just a speculative asset but a powerful tool for transactions, store of value, and an entry point into the broader crypto economy.
Businesses’ interest in Bitcoin grew for several reasons:
- Increased Institutional Adoption: Major financial institutions rolled out Bitcoin-based services, providing legitimacy and opening doors for mainstream use.
- Global Payment Integration: Bitcoin’s borderless nature appealed to businesses seeking efficient, low-cost cross-border transactions, particularly as inflation and currency instability impacted traditional fiat systems.
- Hedge Against Inflation: As global economies faced ongoing inflationary pressures, Bitcoin became a preferred asset for protecting wealth, especially for businesses looking to diversify holdings.
Climbing to $75K
The journey to $75,000 began with a series of positive developments in the cryptocurrency market. Following the approval of Bitcoin Spot ETFs and increased institutional buying, Bitcoin’s price steadily climbed. On November 7, 2024, Bitcoin reached approximately $76,999 before closing at around $75,820. This surge was fueled by a bullish market sentiment as investors reacted positively to the election results and anticipated regulatory clarity under Trump’s administration.
Breaking Through $80K
Following its initial surge to $75K, Bitcoin quickly surpassed the $80,000 mark on November 10, 2024. The momentum continued as traders rushed to capitalize on the positive sentiment surrounding the cryptocurrency. By this point, BTC was trading at approximately $80,976, reflecting an increase of nearly 9.64% from the previous day.
Approaching a New BTC All Time High at $90K
As of November 12, 2024, Bitcoin’s price soared to around $89,000. This represents a staggering increase within just a few days following the election and highlights the cryptocurrency’s volatility and potential for rapid gains. The combination of strong demand from both retail and institutional investors has driven BTC prices higher as they anticipate further growth.
How has the new ATH for BTC led to an increase in crypto payments?
We decided to analyse how the rise in the price of the main cryptocurrency – BTC affected the number of payments. NOWPayments team took the number of payments before the U.S. election and compared it with the data after the Trump has won. The result exceeded all expectations. Thanks to the growth of BTC from $72,729.89 to $90,750.94, the number of payments increased by as much as 8%. This significant change indicates the increased interest in cryptocurrency and the correlation of BTC price and cryptocurrency usage.
- Correlation Between BTC Price and Crypto Payments:
The 8% increase in the number of payments demonstrates a clear correlation between Bitcoin’s price growth and the rising adoption of cryptocurrency for transactions. As BTC’s value surged, so did user engagement with crypto payments.
- Increased Interest in Cryptocurrency:
The significant rise in payments highlights growing public and business interest in cryptocurrencies as a viable payment method, especially during moments of market optimism fueled by events like the U.S. election.
- Market Events Drive Crypto Adoption:
The post-election Bitcoin rally, combined with its ATH, underscores how political and economic events can directly impact crypto adoption, encouraging more users to explore cryptocurrency as both an investment and a practical payment tool.
About NOWPayments
NOWPayments is a leading crypto payment gateway providing easy and secure payment solutions for businesses around the world. With support for over 300 cryptocurrencies and features like auto coin conversion, donation widgets, and e-commerce plugins, NOWPayments offers flexible and robust payment tools for businesses of all sizes.
Blockchain
Mira Network (MIRA) Searches for a Floor as AI Verification Infrastructure Battles Relentless Supply Pressure
Mira Network launched on September 26, 2025, with a genuinely differentiated mission — building a decentralized verification layer for AI outputs, solving the hallucination and reliability problem that prevents truly autonomous AI deployment at scale. MIRA’s debut proved well received, starting at $1.25 before quickly doubling to around $1.40. Ten months later, the token is trading around $0.039 — down 97% from its launch price — with a market cap of approximately $7.53 million against a total supply of 1 billion tokens.
MIRA traded down 4% in the most recent 24-hour period with approximately $4.03 million in 24-hour volume — a volume-to-market-cap ratio that reflects still-active trading despite the dramatic price decline. The July 4 surge of 31.2% in a single day on $58 million volume showed the token retains the capacity for sharp moves when sentiment shifts — volume that day was five times the market cap, reflecting intense speculative activity on a thin float.
What Mira Network Actually Solves
Current AI systems produce hallucinations and unreliable outputs, requiring constant human oversight that prevents their deployment as truly autonomous agents. Mira’s verification layer addresses this at the infrastructure level — providing cryptographic verification of AI-generated outputs that allows applications to trust AI results without requiring a human to double-check every response.
The practical implication is significant. Every AI agent deployment in DeFi, enterprise workflows, or autonomous systems today requires a trust assumption about the AI’s output accuracy. Mira’s network creates a decentralized verification mechanism where multiple nodes independently validate AI outputs, enabling applications to deploy AI agents with mathematical confidence in their reliability rather than probabilistic hope.
The platform also allows apps built on its infrastructure to issue their own tokens, using MIRA to unify and convert liquidity — a tokenomics design that creates ecosystem demand for MIRA as the base liquidity layer for all applications built on the network.
The Backing That Validates the Thesis
Prior to launch, Mira Network raised about $10 million. Early angel investors included Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, and Alex Svanevik, later joined by Framework Ventures, Bitkraft Ventures, and others. That investor roster is notable — Balaji Srinivasan and Sandeep Nailwal are two of the most respected technical investors in the crypto space, and Framework Ventures has a track record of backing protocols that achieve genuine adoption rather than pure speculation.
The Kaito AI Season 2 community campaign distributing $600,000 in MIRA tokens for completing tasks reflects the team’s continued investment in community building — though as CoinMarketCap’s analysis notes, the campaign introduces additional sellable tokens into a market where demand is already weak, making it a short-term supply headwind even as a long-term community growth initiative.
The Supply Structure Governing Everything
The tokenomics model includes a total supply of 1 billion tokens, with more than 191 million currently in circulation. Over the coming years, vested tokens held by early investors, the team, contributors, node operators, and others will gradually be released. Meanwhile, more than 40% of tokens are reserved by the DAO for ecosystem development, partner incentives, governance initiatives, and research efforts.
With only 19% to 28% of tokens currently circulating depending on the data source, MIRA faces one of the most challenging supply dynamics in the AI infrastructure category. Recurring monthly unlocks landing into a market with $4 million in daily volume creates structural downward pressure that product development alone struggles to offset at this stage.
MIRA formed a technical double bottom at $0.041 at the end of June, with trading volume increasing significantly and bullish momentum strengthening. That technical structure was the foundation for the July 4 surge before giving back gains in subsequent sessions. The Nigeria ecosystem expansion and enhanced developer SDK planned for 2026 represent the geographic and technical growth levers the team is pulling to drive organic demand — but adoption in emerging markets moves at a different pace than the unlock schedule.
The AI verification infrastructure thesis that Mira is built on is arguably more relevant in July 2026 than it was at the September 2025 launch — autonomous AI agents are now a mainstream topic rather than a niche discussion. Whether MIRA can attract enough developer adoption to generate genuine network activity before the remaining 80% of supply enters circulation is the question that will define the protocol’s trajectory through the rest of the year.
Crypto
Radiant Capital Shuts Down After 18-Month Struggle to Recover From $50M Lazarus Group Hack
This one doesn’t have a silver lining. On June 1, 2026, the Radiant Capital DAO announced it was winding down operations — ceasing all active development after failing to recover stolen funds or secure new capital following the October 2024 exploit that drained roughly $50 million from the protocol. The shutdown marks the end of what was once one of the more ambitious cross-chain lending projects in DeFi.
RDNT is currently trading at approximately $0.00168, down 3.45% in the past 24 hours — a shadow of its former self. The token peaked near $0.50 in 2023. The collapse from there to effectively zero is one of the starkest examples of what a single catastrophic exploit can do to a protocol’s trajectory.
How the Attack Unfolded
In October 2024, attackers compromised Radiant Capital through a highly advanced malware injection that breached multiple developers’ hardware wallets simultaneously — a sophisticated supply-chain style attack that bypassed the protocol’s multisig security assumptions.
The hack was later attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, and on-chain analysis revealed the group had turned the stolen $53 million into over $102 million by the time the shutdown was announced — a grim detail that underscores both the sophistication of state-sponsored crypto theft and the near-impossibility of recovering from it through legal or on-chain means.
The tactics used in the attack subsequently appeared in other major crypto incidents. In April 2026, Drift Protocol said it had medium-high confidence that the same actors behind the Radiant breach were responsible for a separate exploit against its platform — with the group spending months building trust with contributors through conference meetings and professional contacts before deploying malicious tools.
18 Months of Failed Recovery
What makes Radiant’s story particularly difficult is that the team genuinely tried. For a year and a half after the exploit, the DAO explored paths to recovery — new capital raises, restructuring options, community governance mechanisms. None of it worked.
The protocol had once ranked among the largest cross-chain lending platforms in DeFi, with TVL reaching $386.8 million in December 2023. By early June 2026, TVL had fallen to approximately $1.4 million across chains, with active loans near $866,000 — effectively an empty shell of what the protocol had been.
The DAO’s announcement confirmed there was no viable path forward. Borrowing and incentives have been stopped, and the protocol has entered a maintenance state rather than a full decommission — meaning users can still withdraw funds and manage existing positions, but no new activity is possible.
What Existing Users Need to Do
Radiant Capital has stated it will continue attempts to recover the funds stolen in the 2024 exploit, and affected users can access a remediation portal to seek those funds. That process is likely to be slow and uncertain, but it represents the only remaining avenue for users who suffered losses in the original attack.
For anyone still holding positions in the protocol, the priority is straightforward: existing positions can still be managed, but withdrawal conditions depend on current utilization and market dynamics — and with liquidity declining and yields at zero, waiting carries its own risks. Getting out now rather than hoping for improved conditions is the more prudent approach.
The Radiant shutdown is a case study in what the DeFi industry has been grappling with since the Lazarus Group began targeting protocols systematically — that technical security alone isn’t enough when attackers are willing to spend months infiltrating teams at the human level. Hardware wallet compromises across multiple developers simultaneously suggest an operational security failure that no smart contract audit could have prevented.
RDNT’s price tells the rest of the story.
Crypto Currency
Why Stablecoin Payments Are Emerging as the Future of Cross-Border Transactions
As global commerce becomes increasingly digital, businesses are searching for faster, more efficient ways to move money across borders. Traditional international payment systems, while reliable, often involve multiple intermediaries, lengthy settlement times, and significant transaction costs.
In response, stablecoins are emerging as one of the most important innovations in modern financial infrastructure, offering businesses a new approach to global payments, liquidity management, and settlement.
The Challenges of Traditional Cross-Border Payments
For decades, international transactions have relied heavily on correspondent banking networks. While these systems have enabled global trade at scale, businesses frequently encounter challenges such as:
- Multi-day settlement times
- High foreign exchange and wire transfer costs
- Limited operating hours
- Multiple intermediary banks
- Reduced transparency throughout the payment process
For companies operating across multiple markets, these inefficiencies can create unnecessary delays and working capital constraints.
Why Stablecoins Are Gaining Momentum
Stablecoins are digital assets designed to maintain a stable value, typically by being pegged to a fiat currency such as the US Dollar.
Unlike traditional international transfers, stablecoin transactions can be settled on blockchain networks within minutes, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This combination of speed, accessibility, and efficiency has attracted growing interest from payment providers, fintech companies, exporters, importers, and businesses engaged in international trade.
Major financial institutions and payment companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and PayPal, have all explored or expanded initiatives involving stablecoin settlement and blockchain-based payments, highlighting the growing relevance of digital asset infrastructure within the broader financial ecosystem.
Stablecoins and Business Treasury Management
Beyond payments, stablecoins are increasingly being incorporated into corporate treasury strategies.
Organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions often face challenges related to liquidity management, foreign exchange exposure, and capital deployment.
Stablecoins offer businesses an additional tool for managing value transfer, facilitating faster settlements, and improving operational flexibility when interacting with international partners and service providers.
As adoption increases, many organizations are beginning to view digital assets not simply as investment products, but as practical financial infrastructure.
The Evolution of Financial Infrastructure
The financial industry has undergone significant transformation over the past decade.
Cloud computing changed how businesses access software. Mobile technology changed how consumers access financial services. Today, blockchain technology is creating new possibilities for how value moves around the world.
The next phase of financial innovation is likely to be driven by infrastructure that prioritizes speed, transparency, accessibility, and interoperability.
Stablecoins are increasingly positioned at the center of this evolution.
Andrew Cruz, Chief Executive Officer of MoonExe, believes the industry is entering a period where utility will drive adoption.
“The conversation around digital assets is shifting. Businesses are increasingly focused on practical applications such as payments, settlements, and liquidity management rather than speculation alone,” said Cruz.
“Stablecoins have demonstrated that blockchain technology can solve real-world challenges by enabling faster and more efficient movement of value across borders. We believe this trend will continue as businesses seek alternatives that better match the pace of today’s global economy.”
“The future of finance will not be defined by a single technology, but by how different systems work together to create more efficient financial networks. Digital assets and stablecoins will play an important role in that transition.”
Looking Ahead
As regulatory frameworks continue to mature and institutional participation increases, stablecoin adoption is expected to accelerate across multiple industries.
Businesses seeking greater efficiency, improved liquidity access, and faster settlement capabilities are increasingly evaluating digital asset-powered solutions as part of their long-term financial strategy.
The growing role of stablecoins represents more than a technological innovation—it reflects a broader evolution in how value is exchanged within the global economy.
About MoonExe
MoonExe is a financial technology company focused on digital asset infrastructure, blockchain-powered financial solutions, and global digital economy initiatives. Through its commitment to innovation, accessibility, and technological advancement, MoonExe seeks to support the evolution of modern financial services and the next generation of global value exchange.
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