Chain Catcher Evening News | Hongkou District will launch a 1 billion yuan space industry fund; 3Box Labs completes $30 million Series A financing

Organizer: Web3er Liu, Chain Catcher

"What are the truly important matters today?"

1. Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes: Ready to Raise Interest Rates, Focus on Financial Stability Risks Related to Crypto

The Federal Reserve released the latest meeting minutes last night. The minutes indicate that the Fed is prepared to raise interest rates and reduce its balance sheet, but did not mention whether it would raise rates by 50 basis points at once. The Fed unanimously decided to keep the federal funds rate in the range of 0%-0.25% and will conduct its final asset purchases in February, ending this round of quantitative easing (QE) in March.

The meeting minutes outlined plans for raising interest rates and reducing the asset holdings on the balance sheet, but did not signal a 50 basis point rate hike as the market had anticipated. Following the release of the minutes, the three major U.S. stock indices, which opened lower, narrowed their losses by the close, with the Dow down 0.15%, the Nasdaq down 0.11%, and the S&P 500 barely turning positive, up 0.09%.

2. Etherscan Adds "View NFT" and "Chat with Owner" Features

The Ethereum block explorer Etherscan has added "View NFT" and "Chat with Owner" features, allowing users to click to view detailed information about NFTs or communicate with NFT holders via Blockscan Chat.

Previously, the Etherscan development team Blockscan released a beta version of Blockscan Chat. Information disclosed on the website's homepage indicates that Blockscan Chat is a messaging platform that allows users to easily and instantly send messages to each other from wallet to wallet.

3. Ceramic Developer 3Box Labs Completes $30 Million Series A Financing, Led by Multicoin Capital and USV

The core developer of the decentralized database protocol Ceramic, 3Box Labs, announced the completion of a $30 million Series A financing round, led by Multicoin Capital and Union Square Ventures, with participation from Placeholder, Reciprocal Ventures, CoinFund, Jump Crypto, Figment, Hashed, Metacartel Ventures, Edge & Node, Digital Currency Group, Variant Fund, Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, Protocol Labs, Coinbase Ventures, ConsenSys, Fenbushi, and others. The funds raised will be used to accelerate the development of Ceramic and increase data composability within the Web3 ecosystem.

It is reported that Ceramic's distributed data network enables developers to build applications in a composable data ecosystem. The project plans to launch Ceramic 2.0 and is considering introducing a blockchain driven by a native token, which will be used to coordinate storage, computation, and bandwidth within the network and enhance incentives around data composability. (Source link)

4. Paradigm Hires Anonymous Developer and High School Student as Research Engineer

The well-known crypto venture capital firm Paradigm announced a new personnel update yesterday, with anonymous developer "Transmissions" joining Paradigm. According to the profile, he was previously a core developer and founding member of Rari Capital.

Reportedly, his main work at Paradigm will be to build web3 tools and primitives and assist Paradigm portfolio companies in releasing code. A resume on the Paradigm website shows that Transmissions is a high school student in California "in his spare time." (Source link)

5. Twitter's "Tip" Feature Supports Donations to Ethereum Addresses, Including ETH and Other ERC-20 Tokens

Twitter has announced that its "Tip" feature now supports donations in ETH and ERC-20 tokens (including Ethereum-based stablecoins). Last September, Twitter announced it would accept Bitcoin tips. Currently, this new addition is only available on Twitter's mobile platform. A spokesperson stated that the new feature does not yet support Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain names. (Source link)

6. Web3 Native Computing Platform Fluence Secures $9 Million in Funding, Led by Multicoin Capital

Web3 native computing platform Fluence has secured $9 million in funding, led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Alameda Ventures, Tiger Global, Protocol Labs, Arweave Capital, Polymorphic Capital, OP Crypto, Signum Capital, and UOB Venture Management.

It is reported that Fluence is a decentralized and permissionless AWS. Fluence can read data from any public data source (IPFS, Filecoin, Arweave, Ceramic, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Flow, etc.), perform computations on it, and store the newly computed data back in any of these repositories. (Source link)

7. Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission: Implementing Differential Electricity Pricing for Virtual Currency "Mining"

On February 14, the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission published a notice on its official website regarding the implementation of differential electricity pricing for virtual currency "mining." The notice requires that, in order to rectify virtual currency "mining" activities and assist in achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, differential electricity pricing will be implemented for virtual currency "mining," with a surcharge of 0.50 yuan per kilowatt-hour.

Development and reform departments at all levels must strengthen the dynamic identification of electricity used for virtual currency "mining," regularly publish and update the list of electricity users subject to differential pricing and the effective dates, and notify power grid companies. Power grid companies at all levels must ensure strict implementation of the differential pricing policy for virtual currency "mining" electricity and collect the surcharge promptly and in full. Previously, the Development and Reform Commissions of Hainan Province and Inner Mongolia also announced the implementation of differential electricity pricing for virtual currency "mining." (Source link)

8. RSS3 Announces Airdrop Details, 6 Types of Users Can Receive Token Rewards

The decentralized information indexing and social protocol RSS3 has released airdrop rules, with RSS3 tokens to be airdropped to 6 types of users, available for claiming starting at 22:00 Beijing time on March 15. A total of 59,427 ordinary active users of RSS3 applications will each receive 67.3 tokens, 13,000 RNS holders will each receive 446.79 tokens, 14,000 Family NFT holders will each receive 338.96 tokens, 2,048 white paper NFT holders will each receive 1,464.84 tokens, and 1,847 Wrapped NFT holders will each receive 1,082.84 tokens. (Source link)

9. Shanghai Hongkou District Establishes Metaverse Industry Party Building Alliance, Will Launch 1 Billion Metaverse Industry Fund

At the "2022 Key Enterprises and Key Buildings (Parks) Commendation Conference," Shanghai Hongkou District announced the establishment of the "Hongkou District Metaverse Industry Party Building Alliance," with members including the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Wanxiang Blockchain Co., Ltd., among others.

In addition, to promote the ecosystem and industrial chain of the metaverse industry, Hongkou District Science and Technology Commission Director Cai Zhengmao revealed that Hongkou will establish a metaverse industry fund totaling approximately 1 billion yuan to further solidify the metaverse industry. (People's Daily)

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