ChainCatcher news, the full-chain Rollup L1 network Initia has announced that the mainnet is live and the Initia (INIT) airdrop claim is open for 30 days.The native token of Initia, INIT, has a fixed total supply of 1 billion, of which 5% is allocated for airdrops. Additionally, the foundation holds 7.75%, protocol developers hold 15%, and protocol sales account for 15.25%. For initial CEX liquidity guidance, 6% of the total supply is allocated to the Binance launch event.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Foundation protocol support lead Tim Beiko announced that the Pectra upgrade will go live on the mainnet on May 7, with an expected epoch height of 364032.It is reported that Pectra introduces EIP-7702, which allows standard Ethereum accounts (EOAs) to extend smart contract functionality, supporting use cases such as batch transactions, gas sponsorship, or social recovery; for stakers, Pectra introduces a feature to increase the effective balance of validators.

ChainCatcher message, Synthetix stated that since the launch of Synthetix, every SNX staker minting sUSD has had to bear their share of the protocol's collective debt. As the protocol evolves, debt hedging needs to cover a range of complex inverse tokens, options, wrappers, and derivatives. By mid-year, users will enjoy a unified ecosystem: a robust sUSD peg mechanism, deep liquidity, high-performance L1 and L2 markets, diversified collateral, and a seamless user experience powered by modern wallet infrastructure, along with incentive mechanisms to drive protocol development.More details about the perps V4 design will be announced in the coming weeks, and Synthetix aims to deploy perps to the mainnet by the end of the second quarter at the latest.

ChainCatcher message, according to official news from Monad, Monad announced a partnership with Chainlink. The Monad mainnet will adopt Chainlink's decentralized oracle services, integrating Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as its standard cross-chain infrastructure, and introducing Chainlink Data Streams as a data solution.Chainlink CCIP, as a cross-chain interoperability protocol, aims to enhance communication and interaction between various blockchain networks. Chainlink Data Streams combine low-latency market data with automated execution capabilities, achieving a qualitative leap in speed and user experience.This collaboration aims to further enhance Monad's infrastructure development, providing Monad developers with secure access to off-chain data sources, supporting the Monad ecosystem in building more reliable and innovative decentralized applications, and promoting further expansion of the ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official IOTA blog, the upgrade date for the IOTA Rebased mainnet has been confirmed as May 5, 2025, when it will migrate from the Stardust network to the new IOTA network. For IOTA token holders, the Rebased upgrade will be seamless, requiring no token migration; simply load the existing wallet into the new wallet to start using it.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Binance Wallet has minted 44 million new tokens HYPER (Hyperlane) for the Binance event on the BSC network, while the remaining tokens will circulate on the Ethereum mainnet (where 758 million tokens have already been minted), bringing the initial total to 802 million tokens when combined.Therefore, the current market capitalization on the BSC network cannot be used as a reference for the actual circulating market value. The HYPER (Hyperlane) user airdrop will open for claims tonight at 8 PM.

ChainCatcher news, according to the announcement from the Hyper Foundation, the Hyperliquid validator node set has been updated to 21 permissionless nodes, and any user can register a node. The top 21 by staking amount will form the active set. Nodes must self-stake 10,000 HYPE, and this stake will be locked for one year, with no refunds even if not selected for the active set. The official recommendation is to familiarize yourself with the testnet before the mainnet launch and to prioritize applying for the Delegation Program, which will launch in the coming days to allocate token support for high-quality validator nodes.

ChainCatcher message, BNB Chain posted on platform X that there are only about 12 hours left until the opBNB Lorentz mainnet hard fork. For node operators, this is the last opportunity to upgrade; if the upgrade is not completed in time, the nodes will stop syncing.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer tweeted that its slashing mechanism has gone live on the mainnet, and the protocol committee has completed the upgrade execution.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official tweet, the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer announced that the slashing mechanism will go live on the mainnet today (April 17, 2025).

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Ethena and Securitize plan to launch the Converge blockchain mainnet focused on RWA in the second quarter. The Converge blockchain will use Arbitrum and Celestia to provide fast block times.In addition, USDe and USDtb will serve as gas tokens, along with a validator network backed by ENA.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the L1 blockchain Initia announced that it will launch its mainnet on April 24.

ChainCatcher news, the RWA stablecoin yield protocol R2 announced today that its testnet is officially live. Users can claim test tokens through Discord, mint R2USD, and stake, participate in interactions with products like R2BTC and R2ETH, while completing tasks on platforms such as Galxe and Intract to earn testnet points Signals and Pulses. All points will be exchanged for R2 tokens according to the rules before the mainnet TGE.The official stated that more test networks will be supported in the coming two weeks, connecting a multi-chain ecosystem to provide users with a broader range of participation paths and choices.R2 aims to build the next generation of redeemable, real yield stablecoin protocols, with underlying assets including on-chain US Treasuries, compliant MMF strategies, and real estate rents. The mainnet is expected to officially launch in the second quarter of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news from Monad, USDC will launch simultaneously on its mainnet on the first day, and Circle will also introduce CCTP V2 and Circle Wallet. Circle Wallets are modular programmable wallets officially announced by Circle.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the interoperability protocol Everclear has launched its mainnet.Everclear is a cross-chain settlement protocol designed to enhance interoperability, initially launched in 2017 under the name Connext, and has received support from Pantera, Polychain, Consensys, and the Ethereum Foundation.

ChainCatcher news, BNB Chain officially announces the upcoming Lorentz mainnet hard fork upgrade, upgrade schedule:opBNB → April 21 @ 11:00 AM (UTC+8)BSC → April 29 @ 01:05 PM (UTC+8)This upgrade is mandatory ------ block time will soon change:opBNB: 0.5 secondsBSC: 1.5 secondsIf the dApp logic is not optimized for the faster block generation speed, it may lead to system anomalies.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer announced that the slashing mechanism will go live on the mainnet on April 17. Active Validator Services (AVS) will be able to build verifiable, trustless applications; at the same time, operators and stakers will need to take responsibility. Slashing is a way for PoS protocol economic penalties to punish a node or a group of nodes for executing strategies that can be proven to differ from the given protocol specifications.

ChainCatcher news, the Lens Chain mainnet launched by Aave founder has gone live. Lens has established partnerships with several DeFi and infrastructure projects, including Uniswap, Balancer, LayerZero, Circle, Consensys, and Chainlink, aiming to unlock the economic potential of decentralized "SocialFi."

ChainCatcher news, Layer1 blockchain Shardeum announced that its EVM-based auto-scaling blockchain mainnet will officially launch on April 15, 2025.Previous news, Shardeum has opened airdrop pre-registration.