ChainCatcher news, Sahara AI announced the official launch of the Beta version testnet for the first phase of its data platform. This event attracted over 780,000 users to sign up, with more than 10,000 users ultimately qualifying to participate. Through the Sahara AI testnet, ordinary users can not only contribute to the AI ecosystem through data collection, optimization, and annotation tasks but also participate in building the world's first decentralized AI collaboration platform while earning rewards.The launch of the testnet marks the first phase of the Sahara AI ecosystem's development. Subsequently, Sahara AI will introduce an AI data marketplace and model center to further promote the tradability, traceability, and decentralized collaboration model of AI assets.Previous news, Sahara AI secured $43 million in funding from investment institutions such as Pantera Capital, Binance Labs, Polychain Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Samsung Next, promoting the development of decentralized AI.

ChainCatcher message, the decentralized "AI Data Chain" Masa has launched the incentive testnet Phase 4, which focuses on the Twitter data category and aims to expand Masa's data capacity in preparation for the mainnet launch. Users can set up to become "Twitter Data Miners" and share Twitter professional account data (while protecting privacy) to earn MASA rewards, where each verified tweet provided by a miner to the network will count as one point. The top 100 miners with the most points at the end of the testnet will share a reward pool of 1 million MASA tokens.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the modular blockchain project Nubit has announced that its Alpha testnet Phase 3 will go live at 10 PM Pacific Time on the 23rd.It is reported that this phase of the testnet will deeply integrate the Telegram consumer application, including the Ton Layer 2 network DuckChain, the Ton game suzume, and the first gamified layer Nubee built on Nubit.

ChainCatcher message, Fractal Bitcoin announced on social media that its testnet inscription service has officially reopened, and the service policy has been adjusted. The new policy cancels the previous offer of free inscriptions for the first batch of 25, and now requires a service fee for all inscriptions in each batch.At the same time, the maximum number of inscriptions per batch has been reduced from 1,000 to 100. Fractal Bitcoin stated that these adjustments are aimed at optimizing user experience and addressing potential issues to provide a smoother and more efficient testing experience.

ChainCatcher news, Edge Matrix Chain (EMC) announced that the EMC Layer 1 blockchain testnet has officially launched. By participating in the EMC testnet, developers can fine-tune their applications to ensure they are scalable and ready for deployment on the mainnet. The testnet supports complex AI-driven processes and capabilities for secure financial transactions.

ChainCatcher message, Base announced the launch of Fault proofs on the Base testnet, allowing anyone to propose or challenge proposals regarding L2 state in a permissionless manner.Base stated that Fault proofs are a foundational step towards decentralization. Another important step in achieving the first phase of decentralization for Base is the addition of a Security Council to its contract upgrade keys. Once this step is completed, Base can only upgrade contracts based on actions taken by the Optimism Security Council, which only takes actions approved by Optimism Governance.

ChainCatcher message, the Web3 wallet Bitget Wallet has supported the Babylon Testnet-4 test network and launched a testnet staking event in the Earn Center. Users can claim Sbtc test tokens in the wallet and participate in testnet staking.

ChainCatcher message, Layer 1 blockchain Initia announced on social media that it has launched a public testnet.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized AI content platform MyShell announced on social media that the testnet Phase 1 is now live.Previous report, on April 19, the decentralized AI content platform MyShell announced the launch of the world's first AI consumer Layer2 network, aimed at connecting users, creators, and open-source AI model researchers. The MyShell Layer2 testnet will go live next week, with secure deployment provided by AltLayer.

ChainCatcher news, the Polygon modular blockchain project Avail announced on social media that it has launched the Turing testnet. Turing is the final test environment before Avail's mainnet, focusing on deployment review, stress testing, and scalability assessment.Avail encourages blockchain developers to start testing on Turing to ensure the mainnet is ready. The Goldberg testnet will be deprecated at some point in the future.

ChainCatcher message, since the official launch of the Zulu testnet 17 days ago, we have welcomed over 160,000 registered users and processed over 1 million transactions, with enthusiasm continuing to run high.It is reported that Zulu Network aims to create a brand new Bitcoin Layer 2 network, leading the way with a dual-layer architecture. ZuluPrime is EVM compatible, focusing on building the BitFi ecosystem through smart contracts and dApps; ZuluNexus will integrate the extensibility of UTXO, focusing on innovations in Bitcoin's original ecosystem. Zulu makes the BitFi dream a reality while retaining the original security, reliability, and functionality of the Bitcoin network.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 132nd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers discussed the preparations for the first Pectra developer test network (Pectra Devnet 0) and reviewed related specifications and two research projects. Developers also discussed unresolved issues related to EIP-7251, EIP-7549, and Electra.In response to these issues, developers proposed solutions and plan to finalize them within the week. Additionally, developers discussed a new EIP aimed at creating a universal EL request to simplify the message transmission process.

ChainCatcher news, during the bi-weekly call on Thursday, Ethereum developers discussed their goal to have the Goerli test network (testnet) running through Dencun by January 17. This will be a highly anticipated upgrade that will implement "proto-danksharding," thereby reducing Layer 2 aggregation fees and expanding the blockchain by increasing the space for data "blobs."Tim Beiko, the Ethereum Foundation's protocol support lead, stated during the call: "Clearly, if we discover any major issues or crazy things before then, we can cancel at any time. This means ideally we would publish a fork blog post sometime during the week of January 8, so that people have at least a week to update."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Coinbase-supported blockchain Xion has launched its test network, focusing on "Universal Abstraction," an infrastructure solution aimed at eliminating the complexity of Web3 user experiences. The goal of the network is to onboard users without directly using wallet accounts, signatures, or other typical processes. The team expects to launch the mainnet in 2024.According to data from the crypto data platform RootData, Xion previously completed $3 million in seed funding and $8 million in Series A funding from several investors, including Circle Ventures and Animoca Brands.

ChainCatcher news, Layer 1 blockchain lightweight node protocol Over Protocol announced that it will launch a closed beta test network starting on October 26.Previously reported, Layer 1 blockchain lightweight node protocol Over Protocol developer Superblock announced it has completed a total financing of 8 million USD, with investments from SK, Netmarble, DSC, E&Investment, Schmidt, SpringCamp, and NaverZ. The new funds will be used to further expand into the South Korean market.

ChainCatcher news, how to link AI with blockchain, BOINC AI is the world's first leading attempt, whose team first proposed the L1 layer network + ultra-high performance server solution, aiming for the historically highest TPS AI blockchain system, targeting Solana and Ethereum.The BOBCHAIN testnet, with its unique POA + POVC proof, has achieved 5000 TPS per second, dedicated to solving some financing and computing power issues for small and medium AI companies, as well as promoting AI tools to help smart contract developers reduce development costs. AI companies issuing STO tokens through BOBCHAIN will regularly receive financing from miners and computing power supply from the community on the BOBCHAIN platform, while miners will obtain shares of excellent AI companies. Traditional blockchain developers joining BOBCHAIN will receive free credit for code AI tools and cloud computing, significantly reducing the cost issues for small and medium-sized blockchain development teams. Its native token BOB will serve as fuel and facilitate payments for most application-based AI companies.The BOINC AI team has launched the N1 series services, with 1,000 servers already reserved, each machine integrated with IPFS and ZK machine identification codes to ensure network stability. The team stated that these specific servers are equipped with the BOBCHAIN L1 layer network, and when the number of nodes reaches ten thousand, the theoretical TPS will exceed 100,000 per second. Moreover, miners purchasing mining machines are not just mining; more importantly, they hold significant rights, as only the miner community can vote and invest in the community.Additionally, the BOINC AI team has established a model company, SUPER AI, in Silicon Valley. In cases where computing power cannot be rented out, all computing power will prioritize serving SUPER AI, and miners will then be able to hold shares in this AI company.In terms of blockchain, the BOINC AI team hopes to create a public chain system with the historically highest TPS, while in AI, BOINC AI aims to build a traditional equity company that integrates cloud computing and AI models. (Source link)

ChainCatcher message, the privacy protection protocol zkPass announces that the Pre-alpha testnet is now open for public testing, with no more whitelist access. Currently, tens of thousands of whitelist users have generated over 100,000 zero-knowledge proofs.zkPass is a privacy protection protocol for validating private data, built on the foundations of multi-party computation (MPC), zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), and three-party transport layer security (3P-TLS).

ChainCatcher news, the official message states that since the launch of the Manta Pacific testnet one month ago, over 2.5 million transactions have been processed on-chain.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 112th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus Meeting. This week, developers discussed including a builder override flag in the Engine API, raising the target blob limit from 2 to 3, increasing the maximum blob limit from 4 to 6, and ongoing research around changing the maximum effective balance of validators. The increase in blob capacity was proposed by Dankrad Feist from the Ethereum Foundation after conducting data experiments to test the network's capacity for handling large blocks.Parithosh Jayanthi from the Ethereum Foundation DevOps team stated that all EL and CL client teams have passed the relevant Hive tests for Devnet #7. His team plans to launch Devnet #7 as early as June 30 or July 3. Devnet #7 is a dedicated short-term test network for EIP-4844 and will not test other code changes.Additionally, developers are preparing to deprecate the public Goerli test network by the end of this year. To replace Goerli, the Ethereum client teams are launching a new testnet called Holesky, which will host an active validator set larger than both Goerli and the Ethereum mainnet. (Source link)