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The OKX Web3 wallet Runes market now fully supports batch scanning of Runes assets on the Web and APP. It supports users to purchase up to 20 pieces at a time. At the same time, it can set the maximum scanning price with one click and automatically merge it into one UTXO after the purchase is completed. Function. It is understood that under this trading mode, users will use less gas and trade Runes assets more conveniently. It is reported that the OKX Web3 wallet has taken the lead in supporting Bitcoin asset protocols such as BRC-20, SRC-20, ARC-20 and Rune Alpha, and has launched the Runes market, Atomics market and Ordinals market. These markets are completely decentralized and provide interactive platform-free services. fee, becoming one of the most popular wallets in the Bitcoin Inscription and Rune ecology.
According to the Solana Developer Forum, the "Proposal to Enable Full Priority Fee Rewards for Verifiers on Solana Mainnet-beta" discussion suggested adjusting the priority fee structure to "reward 100% of the priority fees to validators." The discussion initiator stated that implementation of this proposal would require the use of feature gating. While the payment structure for transaction submitters will not change, the software that includes this proposal will allocate a greater percentage of fees to validators than previous versions. Therefore, feature gates that ensure a smooth transition to new functionality for all validators on epoch boundaries are critical, thus maintaining consistency.
Grayscale withdrew its 19b-4 filing for its Ethereum (ETH) futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), just three weeks after the securities regulator’s decision, Cointelegraph reported. Grayscale filed a notice of withdrawal of the Grayscale Ethereum Futures ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 7. The SEC is scheduled to make a final decision on Grayscale’s Ethereum futures ETF on May 30.
Quantitative trading firm Susquehanna International Group filed documents disclosing a $ 1.3 billion investment in a spot Bitcoin ETF, including holding 17.3 million shares of Grayscale’s GBTC through three separate investments, for a total investment of $ 1.1 billion. Susquehanna also purchased 1.3 million shares of Fidelity FBTC valued at $ 83.7 million, 583,049 shares of BlackRock IBIT valued at $ 23.6 million, and 560,832 shares of Bitwise BITB valued at $ 21.7 million, among other Bitcoin spot ETFs.
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Ethereum Layer 2 network LightLink stated on social platforms that it will airdrop LL tokens to Mocavers NFT holders, and each Mocavers NFT will receive 1,000 LL. Claim details will be released soon on the MOCA Discord. On April 19, Ethereum Layer 2 network LightLink stated on social platforms that it would airdrop LL node NFT to TIA and PYTH stakers. The airdrop will reward communities that help keep their network secure, more details will be announced in the future
Ethereum liquidity re-hypothecation protocol Renzo announced that Pendle will open its new long-term ezETH pool today (until December 24, 2024) and increase ezPoints rewards by 3 times. At the same time, users can also receive EigenLayer points as well as ETH re-staking and AVS rewards.
Merlin Chain, the second-layer Bitcoin network, announced the Merlin's Phantom plan, which aims to enable Bitcoin assets to be "swap" free, instant, and threshold-free in different ecosystems, and to obtain multiple empowerments through various forms, thereby in While not issuing new assets, the liquidity will remain in the native community. The main use cases of Merlin’s Phantom include: token swap, asset migration between different protocols, asset interoperability between multiple chains, etc.
The public consultation on Hong Kong's virtual asset over-the-counter trading service provider (OTC) licensing system ended last Friday, but the system only covers a very small number of currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, causing concerns among some practitioners. In response to this situation, the Hong Kong Virtual Asset Industry Association called on officials to exempt USDT and USDC from transaction restrictions to avoid significant impact on business development. Some practitioners said that reducing the number of tradable currencies may lead to the transfer of business to other regions. In addition, some practitioners have expressed concerns about the proposed transfer threshold of HK$ 8,000 to strengthen customer due diligence, arguing that it may lead to a loss of customers. At the same time, requirements such as appointing a compliance officer and a money laundering reporting officer may pose significant cost pressures for smaller OTCs.
According to official news, cryptocurrency trading platform Gate announced that it will cooperate with technology giant AWS to host an attention-grabbing peripheral event at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival: Future Convergence, When AI Meets Blockchain. This event is co-sponsored by Qraft and Masa. It is reported that this event will be held at Eaton Club Central in Central, Hong Kong on April 8, 2024, bringing together expert representatives from well-known institutions such as CertiK, AWS, Masa, OneDegree, Qraft, Near, PYTH, and Crypto Council for Innovation. The event will focus on topics such as the integration of AI and blockchain, regulatory challenges, and the impact of AI on Web3 and the trading field. It aims to promote exchanges and cooperation between blockchain and AI technology and jointly explore the possibilities for future development. .
Crypto lending platform Goldfinch has suffered its third default, with damaged users calling on Goldfinch to withdraw funds from the protocol’s $ 107 million coffers to repay it. Borrower Lend East previously secured a $ 10.15 million loan through support from Goldfinch users. Warbler Labs, the parent company of the Goldfinch Protocol, is currently hiring outside legal counsel to explore all rights and remedies available to the community to maximize recovery. Lend East’s incident is the third breach experienced by users of the Goldfinch protocol since it began operations in January 2021.
10x Reaearch founder Markus Thielen released a video saying that the $ 68,330 mark is very critical for Bitcoin because it was the starting point for the last time Bitcoin hit a new high. Markus Thielen said that Bitcoin prices fell last week due to three consecutive days of net outflows from ETFs. However, the market rebounded over the weekend, so if Bitcoin can hold $ 68,330, a technical head and shoulders bottom formation is formed, and Bitcoin will rush directly to the next all-time high target of $ 83,000, or even break through the $ 100,000 mark.
Blockchain Australia, Australia’s regulatory and policy development industry body, announced on its social platforms that Backpack is now a member. At the same time, Blockchain Australia stated that "Backpack is a fully regulated global cryptocurrency trading platform."
In an insider trading case involving former Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi, his brother Nikhil Wahi, and their friend Sameer Ramani, a U.S. court ruled on March 1 that trading certain crypto assets on the secondary market, known as Coinbase, is illegal. Securities trading. The ruling stated: “Even if Ramani traded the tokens on the secondary market, the court’s analysis remained unchanged. Each issuer continued to make such representations about its profitability while the tokens were trading on the secondary market. Therefore, Under the Howey test, all cryptoassets purchased and traded by Ramani were investment contracts.” The Court expressed this important position in its default judgment in Ramani. A default judgment is entered when the defendant fails to respond to a court summons or fails to appear in court
The Binance contract will support FDUSD as a joint margin asset from 17:00 on March 8, 2024, and will stop supporting USDP as a joint margin asset at 14:00 on March 14, 2024 (Eastern Eighth District Time). Due to the above changes, the USDP transfer limit under joint margin mode has been updated to zero. After 14:00 on March 14, 2024, the remaining USDP balance in the U-based contract wallet will be automatically converted to USDT at a ratio of 1:1. The conversion process will take approximately 24 hours.
Aperture Finance has released its “light white paper” introducing a revolutionary DeFi infrastructure based on chatbot UX. The infrastructure aims to revolutionize how users interact with the blockchain by letting them "state their goals" in natural language and plug into a network of solutions for better execution and pricing than is possible under the current trading paradigm. Way. Aperture is building a novel chatbot UX powered by an underlying "intent" infrastructure that will allow users to express their trading goals and preferences more intuitively and efficiently, making it easier and more precise to mine the blockchain potential, promising benefits for wider adoption. The infrastructure is divided into several components, including an intent clearinghouse (Mempool), zero-knowledge proofs for data validity (ZK-Simulate), verification smart contracts, and a ranking and execution engine. In addition, Aperture innovatively proposes "Solution DAOs (Solver DAOs)" as its application layer. These DAOs will focus on enabling and solving use cases based on specific intentions without worrying about the underlying execution requirements.
According to official news, Manta Network’s global brand event zkDAY will be held in Denver, USA, with Cointelegraph and AWS as co-organizers. zkDAY is a global brand event founded and launched by Manta Network, aiming to explore cutting-edge topics in the Web3 field such as ZK and modularity. Past participating guests include Edward Snowden, institutional investors from Polychain, Animoca, IOSG, SevenX Ventures, etc., and Founder of projects such as Celestia and Polygon. During ETH Istanbul, Ethereum founder Vitalik participated in zkDAY.
zkSync ecological decentralized lending protocol ZeroLend announced the completion of a US$ 3 million seed round of financing at a valuation of US$ 25 million. Momentum 6, Blockchain Founders Fund, Morning Star Ventures, Banter Capital, Newman Capital, dVdT, Transform Capital, Cypher Capital, Bison Fund , Ozaru Ventures, iAngels, Krypital, Genblock, viaBTC, GBV and Asteroid Capital participated in the investment. It is reported that ZeroLend will launch its native governance token ZERO in the first quarter of 2024.
Polygon ID announced the launch of version 6 on the social platform, which implements dynamic voucher IDs for the first time, and users can automatically renew expired vouchers through the wallet. This update also includes features such as new QueryBuilder, custom credential design, private uniqueness proof (Beta), and more.
On January 24, Zorp, a ZK-L1 network Nockchain development company, announced the completion of a US$ 5 million seed round of financing, led by Delphi Ventures, with participation from North Island Ventures, CMCC Global, Portal Ventures, Champion Hill Ventures, Breed VC, Octu Ventures and Labyrinth DAO. cast. It is reported that Zorp is building Nockchain as a high-throughput chain that provides proof of computing, storage and new namespaces. With Nock, Zorp built the first combinator-based virtual machine that works efficiently with zero-knowledge proofs. Nockchain is a proof-of-useful work-based blockchain that sits on top of its ZKVM.
Crypto-focused venture capital firm 1RoundTable Partners announced it is raising up to $ 800 million in a new venture fund focused on growth-stage startups, Nftgators reported. The company plans to raise at least $ 200 million when it closes the fund in March 2024. Now is “the time for the single best investment company,” according to Dan Tapiero, CEO, chief investment officer and managing partner of 10T Holdings and 1Roundtable Partners
The HBAR Committee announced that it has voted to approve the board’s allocation of 4.86 billion HBAR (approximately $ 380 million) for ecosystem growth. The vast majority of the grant (4.248 billion HBAR) will be allocated by the Hedera Board of Directors to the HBAR Foundation, the Hashgraph Association, and the DLT Science Foundation. The HBAR Foundation and Hashgraph Association will receive grants within the first quarter, while the DLT Science Foundation will receive grants as milestones are met throughout the year. In addition, 614.06 million HBAR will be used for the operating expenses of the Hedera Council and payments to early SAFT purchasers.
The Curve team launched a proposal in the community to "compensate for the losses caused by the JPEG'd DAO hacker attack in July" and proposed to provide 6,042,462.25 veCRV tokens as compensation. Currently, JPEG'd DAO is whitelisted and eligible to lock CRV, and they will lock and use the resulting veCRV to participate in Curve governance. At the same time, the proposal recommends that the Curve community multi-signature wallet transfer the compensation token to Curve DAO, and the DAO will conduct fully decentralized voting compensation.
To support the Ordinals Jubilee BRC-20 upgrade, UniSat has announced that it will conduct a network upgrade from 08:00 UTC on January 5 to 08:00 UTC on January 6. During this period, the BRC-20 market will be temporarily closed. UniSat guarantees that, with the exception of the BRC-20 market, all other services will operate as normal.
Geometric Energy Corporation CEO Samuel Reid stated on social platforms that regulatory obstacles with NOAA, FCC, NTIA, NASA and DOD have been overcome and orbit trajectory analysis and mission testing of the DOGE-1 and Geometric-2 satellite train constellations will begin. Both missions have been contracted to SpaceX with the goal of ensuring that satellite flight and ground systems are ready for integration with the launchers of the first available DOGE-1 and "Geometric-2" low-Earth orbit vehicles.
The newly launched DePIN function of QnA3.AI has won widespread praise from users. Its user activity (UAW) ranks second on the BNB Dapp list and ranks sixth on the full-chain Dapp list. It is reported that after users install the QnA3 Data Mining plug-in, QnA3 will use the idle computing resources on the user's device to perform data cleaning and data capture of large models, and provide generous point rewards to users who contribute computing power. QnA3 not only combines the ChatGPT features and intent-centric transaction mechanism in the encryption field, but also adds the innovative elements of DePIN, further expanding the platform's influence and user base. It is worth mentioning that QnA3 is also a star project of the Binance Labs incubator.
Web3 cross-chain gaming ecosystem Portal announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing. The specific amount has not yet been disclosed. Sotheby’s Vice President and Head of Digital Art and NFT Michael Bouhanna, Moonpay co-founder Max Crown, 9GAG CEO Chen Zhancheng, Pixelmon CEO Giulio, Parallel Co-founder Kalos and others participated in the investment.
According to News.bitcoin, Rostin Behnam, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that under current laws, many digital assets or tokens are considered commodities. However, Rostin Behnam lamented the emergence of regulatory gaps and urged the US Congress to step in. He also emphasized that he and SEC Chairman Gary Gensler "get along very well."
The Solana Saga phone is currently selling for as much as $ 3,000 on eBay at a 500% premium. Its official launch price is only $ 599. The catalyst for the surge in Saga mobile phones may be related to the Solana-based MEME token Bonk, which has increased by more than 19,103% since October, and each Solana Saga mobile phone is entitled to receive an airdrop of up to 30 million BONK tokens, which in turn promoted The price of this phone in the secondary market.
The U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) flagged Bitcoin Inscription as a cybersecurity risk on December 9, calling attention to a 2022 security vulnerability developed by Ordinals Protocol, Cointelegraph reported. According to database records, in some versions of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knot, data carrier restrictions can be bypassed by obfuscating the data into code. The vulnerability is currently being analyzed as a potential impact, which could result in large amounts of non-transaction data flooding the blockchain, potentially increasing network size and adversely affecting performance and fees. It is reported that being added to the NVD list means that a specific cybersecurity vulnerability has been identified, cataloged, and deemed worthy of public awareness. The database is managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
According to The Block, citing Etherscan data, Tether froze 161 Ethereum wallets yesterday, of which 150 wallets currently do not hold USDT. It is unknown whether they have ever held USDT and the amount. A total of 11 wallet addresses hold more than 3.5 million USDT, of which a single address holds approximately 3.4 million USDT. ZachXBT has linked this address to the recent hacker attack on Stake. BlockBeats previously reported that Tether said yesterday that the company had frozen personal wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in order to "proactively prevent any potential misuse of Tether tokens and enhance security measures," and clarified that, Existing wallets on the OFAC list will be frozen, as will any new wallets added in the future.
friend.tech said on social platforms that it has completed an on-chain transaction that transferred ownership of the friend.tech contract and funds to a new combination of multi-signature and professional custody. will improve friend.tech’s long-term security and enable it to meet its tax obligations.
According to the official announcement, Atomics Market now supports ecological DMINT series NFT transactions. It is reported that the DMINT series NFT of the Atomics ecosystem is an innovative NFT casting method, which combines Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (POW) principle and decentralized design concept, through the unique Bitwork mining mechanism and Merkle tree Proof, aiming to achieve a fairer and more transparent NFT issuance method. Currently, there are some pending orders for TOOTHY NFT on the platform, with the floor price being 0.007 BTC.
According to the chain weekly report released by Glassnode, as market transactions reached the high point of the year, more than 16.366 million BTC (equivalent to 83.6% of the circulating supply) were in profit. This was the first time since November 2021 (near the all-time high) the highest level. However, the size of the unrealized profits held in these coins remains modest, as measured by the difference between the spot price and the coin's cost basis. The extent of unrealized profits held by investors has so far not been enough to incentivize long-term holders to sell, keeping total supply relatively tight.
Airdrop robot project LootBot has announced the launch of its V2 version. LootBot V2 adds four major new features, including an airdrop automated terminal, an over-the-counter (OTC) portal, an on-chain automated trading terminal, and AI-driven analytics tools. The OTC trading portal will open next week, allowing users to trade airdrop allocations prior to listing, or trade any token on the OTC portal. The portal is designed specifically for airdrop tokens. Users who were unable to participate in the airdrop can purchase quotas from more fortunate wallets, and sellers can realize profits even before the token is listed for trading. All transactions are fully on-chain, secured by LootBot, and conducted peer-to-peer. In addition, LootBot also launched a fully automated on-chain trading terminal that provides real-time market data, trend insights, and uses AI analysis to enhance transaction security, such as preventing fraud. Finally, LootBot is working closely with leading AI solution partners to make LootBot more intelligent and provide users with an intuitive operating experience. This backend system will connect more than 50 protocols and 7+ chains. These new features will be rolled out gradually starting next week
BRC20 cross-chain protocol CHAX (Chamcha) announced the opening of a new cross-chain bridge. Due to the large price difference between MEXC and the chain, too many BRC20 user withdrawal requests caused the old cross-chain bridge to be blocked. According to other statistics, there are currently more than 20 million CHAX tokens cross-chain to the Ethereum network.
Kronos Research, an encryption quantification company, issued a statement saying that the team has been taking actions in the hope of minimizing the impact and restoring trading operations. Confirmable losses in crypto assets currently stand at approximately $ 26 million, and all losses will be borne internally and no partners will be affected. BlockBeats previously reported that earlier today, Kronos Research was attacked and lost 13,007 ETH, worth approximately $ 25 million. There was unauthorized access to its API key.
StaFi announced that its mainnet has successfully integrated SSV Network’s DVT technology. Users can now stake DVT using their ETH tokens through StaFi’s rToken app. This cooperation between StaFi Protocol and SSV Network aims to leverage the advantages of DVT technology to strengthen StaFi’s staking ecosystem. DVT technology allows an Ethereum PoS validator to run on multiple nodes, allowing a group of nodes to work together as a single validator. With the introduction of DVT, StaFi will enhance the security of its staking infrastructure and reduce the likelihood of validators being penalized.
Blockchain network Artela announced that Devnet has completed the second phase of upgrade and released a public beta version of the core feature "Aspect Programming", which supports developers to enhance dApps by extending the underlying functions of the chain. At the same time, the Artela code repository also announced that it is all open source and will be launched on the developer portal. It is reported that the core team of Artela’s public chain comes from Ant Chain, which completed a US$6 million seed round of financing in July this year. It previously launched the internal test Devnet in September and plans to launch the initial test network at the end of this year.
Arthur Hayes said in a podcast that institutional interest in Bitcoin may "signal a situation that we may not ultimately like." Asset managers like BlackRock are effectively “agents of the state” and they act at the direction of the state. Hayes warned that if the BlackRock ETF gets too big, it could actually kill Bitcoin because it would just be a bunch of Bitcoin that doesn't move. He said that if most Bitcoins end up being kept by one or a few institutions, the consequences will be difficult to imagine.
The Ai+ artificial intelligence platform AISC will be launched on Gate at 20:00 Beijing time on November 10 to start trading. As the first step in the global plan, this is the first chapter of AISC to enhance liquidity and influence. AISC will establish an in-depth collaborative mechanism at the incentive layer, protocol layer and application layer to promote global ecological development through the integration of blockchain technology. . Gate is an innovative platform focusing on digital currency transactions. It has a safe and stable system, efficient and convenient transactions, rich and diverse products, and high-quality and considerate services. It will provide AISC with a broader market space and more cooperation opportunities.
On October 31, the UK Treasury released its final proposals for crypto asset regulation, outlining the UK government’s intention to bring some crypto asset activities into the scope of financial services regulation for the first time. “The government’s position is that companies that deal directly with UK retail consumers, No matter where you are, you should be required to obtain authorization." The document describes how companies engaging in crypto-asset activities must now obtain authorization from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, including a provision for cryptocurrency exchanges to set out detailed requirements for entry standards and mandatory disclosures when listing new assets.
October 31st marks the 15th anniversary of the release of the Bitcoin white paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto on the P2P foundation website. The Bitcoin network was officially launched on January 3, 2009, with the initial trading price of Bitcoin being $0.0008. Today, Bitcoin has gradually appreciated more than 43 million times in value since its launch.
Affected by the expansion of MakerDAO's Spark Protocol to Gnosis Chain, Gnosis Chain TVL has doubled from early October, while transaction volume and fees on the network have also increased significantly. The funds are used to increase savings rates through MakerDAO’s Spark lending protocol, which currently offers interest rates in excess of 7%. By bridging to Gnosis Chain, users are increasingly converting their xDAI into Savings xDAI, thereby accruing interest on all sDAI held by the main bridge.
Bitcoin security researcher and Bitcoin developer Antoine Riard, who quit the development of the Lightning Network due to security concerns and fundamental challenges facing the Bitcoin ecosystem, believes that the Bitcoin community faces a "hard dilemma" because of a new class of alternative loops. The attack puts the Lightning Network in a "dangerous position." It is understood that the substitution cycle attack is a new type of attack. The attacker can exploit the inconsistency between various memory pools to steal the funds of payment channel participants. He pointed out that solving the new attack may require changes to the underlying Bitcoin network. "These types of Changes require maximum transparency and buy-in from the entire community as we are changing full node processing requirements or the security architecture of the decentralized Bitcoin ecosystem.”
According to Coin Edition, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci recently said in an interview that although the Federal Reserve appears to be doing well, the system it operates in is fundamentally broken. Anthony Scaramucci proposes an immutable asset with defined scarcity as an alternative that no other asset has except Bitcoin, which he believes is evolving into a more valuable store of value than gold . And predicts that in the event of a collapse of the U.S. financial system, Bitcoin’s market value will reach $15 trillion.
According to Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett on her social platform, Grayscale issued a statement in response to the U.S. SEC’s decision not to seek appeal: “The 45-day period for seeking retrial stipulated in the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure has expired. The court will within 7 days Release of final authorization. Grayscale team is ready to convert GBTC to ETF once SEC approval is obtained"
friend.tech imitation disk Stars Arena officially stated that it has cooperated with blockchain security experts Paladin Blockchain Security and the Locrian team, which will further enhance the platform’s security infrastructure and enhance the team’s technical and security capabilities. In previous news, Stars Arena stated that funds have been transferred from the original fee wallet to the new Gnosis Safe multi-signature wallet, which requires 3/6 signatures and is controlled by all members of the Stars Arena team.
South Korean cryptocurrency trading platform Upbit has suffered 159,661 hacker attacks in the first half of this year, 2.17 times more than last year, Yonhap reported, citing data submitted by Upbit operator Dunamu. Upbit lost approximately 58 billion won due to hacking attacks in 2019, and Dunamu said it has since controlled the proportion of cold wallets to more than 70%.
The 171st Ethereum Core Developer Consensus Meeting: Devnet-9 release was postponed again